Kari Vehosalo on view in Paris

Works by Kari Vehosalo are on view in Being-There group exhibition at Le Clézio Gallery in Paris. The exhibition runs until 25 January 2025.

“Humans, always oriented toward the future, inevitably confront the reality of their finitude. This tension between infinite aspiration and the limits of life often creates a sense of impatience. For the philosopher Martin Heidegger, the key lies in fully accepting our ephemeral nature, in “being-there” (Dasein) — either by living authentically, embracing our impermanence, or inauthentically, by fleeing from this reality.

For Vehosalo, ‘Being There’ means perceiving reality and truth differently, shaped by our desires, culture, and unconscious mind. In front of vast landscapes and interior scenes marked by gaping black holes, his almost photographic paintings immerse our gaze in mystery, uncertainty, and fragility.”

Image: Kari Vehosalo, The Past is a Gaping Hole III, 2023, oil on copper, 18 x 15 cm. Photo: Erno Enkenberg

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Aho, Eklund, Niva and Slotte at Turku Art Museum

Works by Heini Aho, Eeva-Leena Eklund, Jussi Niva and Joel Slotte are included in Turku Art Museum’s What (a) Colour exhibition. Showcasing over 60 works by 40 artists, the exhibition features works from the collection of Turku Art Museum and explores how to interpret the meaning of colour in visual art.

The selected works highlight the colour palettes typical of different eras, colour theories, material research, as well as the cultural, symbolic and emotional dimensions of colours. The exhibition brings together paintings, graphic art, photography, moving image and sculpture, all of which illuminate the essence of colour in their own ways.

Alongside the museum’s own acquisitions, works from the collections of Nils Dahlström, the Friends of Turku Art Museum and Lars Göran Johnsson are included, as well as an acquisition from the latest subcollection, Collection Lieto Savings Bank Foundation.

Image: Jussi Niva, I Spy With My Eyes Something Being As Indigo, 1994. Photo: Jussi Tiainen

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Heini Aho’s solo exhibition in Turku

Heini Aho’s solo exhibition Parting (Jakaus) is on view at Kilta Gallery, a new exhibition space in Turku which continues WAM Turku City Art Museum’s exhibition program while the museum building is under renovation. In the exhibition consisting of sculptures, installations and media works, Heini Aho observes the distribution, partitioning and segregation suggested by the name of the exhibition, expanding to reflect, for example, on the many meanings of the concept. Aho examines everyday matters and objects that we take for granted and their use from a new perspective. The works convey wonder and the need to explore, but there is also a bit of humor in them.

The exhibition runs until 2.2.2025.

Image: Courtesy of WAM Turku City Art Museum

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