Grönlund-Nisunen

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Perspective Study III, 2015
analogue colour photograph
edition 5
hommage à Juri Okas

The universe – and even our closer environment, our small place in the cosmos – is full of forces that attract and repel, make waves, cause things to become attached, and create a shine or something that the human senses perceive as colour, warmth, coldness or even moisture.

We usually regard these things to be self-evident: green is green, water thrown on the stones of a sauna stove evaporates, and one will easily slip on ice.

Grönlund-Nisunen, however, notice and consider things like this, which provide a starting point or fuel for their artistic work.

In this exhibition, a steel hoop moves on cables stretched from one corner of a room to another without ever reaching its destination. A small steel cube is colder than the air in the room, making the moisture in the air condensate on its surface. A randomly rising grid of steel balls projects a “landscape” onto a wall. Automatically steered RGB-LED spotlights focus on a sheet of glass between them, on which there is a sandblasted circle the size of the beam of the spotlight that is closer, with continuously changing colours mixed on the surface of the glass. A motor tilts an aquarium filled with two fluids of different density creating a continuous wave motion at the interface of the fluids. A long story of looking for an installation venue and planning a work of art is crystallized as an analogue photograph of a park of memories.

Grönlund-Nisunen’s works are always pared down, uncluttered and strict and despite that, or precisely because of it, they are fascinating and lyrical: a poem is the shortest way to express a complex and important matter.

Ilona Anhava

 

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Perspective Study II, 2015
analogue colour photograph
45 x 45 cm
edition 5

exhibition view

exhibition view

Perspective Study I, 2015
analogue colour photograph
65 x 95 cm
edition 5

Large Movement, 2013
watch movement, stainless steel casing, lens
3 x 12 x 12 cm
edition 3

exhibition view

exhibition view

Helsinki Beat Frequency, 2015
tone generators, subwoofers, cables

Colour Mixer, 2015
light projectors, sandblasted glass, aluminum structure

Underground Espoo, 2016
bedrock samples, wooden crates, planed timber
size variable