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19. XII PARIS BIENNIAL EXHIBITION OF YOUNG ARTISTS,
16 January - 27 February 1983
The first exhibition in the Sara Hildén Art Museum
in 1983 was the XII Paris Biennial Exhibition of Young Artists, which
filled all the exhibition space in the museum. The 1982 Biennial was open
in Paris from 2 October - 14 November 1982.
An international committee with a representative from
each of the invited countries is responsible for selecting the participating
artists, all of whom must be under 35 years of age. Artists from 40 countries
took part in the XII Biennial when it was shown in Paris. The exhibition
in Finland will include artists from the following countries: Argentina,
Australia, Belgium, Chile, Columbia, Cuba, Denmark, Finland, France, the
German Democratic Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany, Great
Britain, Ireland, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands,
Norway,
Peru, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States.
All the Finnish participants in the XII Paris Biennial
have helped in organizing the exhibition in Finland. The artists are Martti
Aiha, Marika Mäkelä, Marja Kanervo, Leena Luostarinen and Olli
Lyytikäinen.
The Finnish Artists' Association of Finland and the Sara
Hildén Art Museum organized the exhibition in the Sara Hildén
Art Museum in cooperation with the secretariat of the Paris Biennial.
When the works were being chosen for the exhibition in
Finland the main aim was to have a varied cross-section of the exhibition
in Paris. The main focus in the exhibition as a whole was on new figurative
painting and on the increasing significance of Expressionism in contemporary
international art.
After closing in Finland, a smaller version of the same
exhibition was on display in the Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo and at the Charlottenborg
in Copenhagen.
Catalogue:
XII Paris Biennial
1983, 90 pages
Sara Hildén Art Museum Publication 14
ISSN 0357-3001
Not on sale
The exhibition was attended by 18,110 visitors.
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