Minna Kangasmaa | Roope Ahola | Eija Hirvonen |
Tuomo Kangasmaa | Kari Yli-Annala
Flat1, Vienna Austria
20.-23.9.2012
Our exhibition "Besides Beauty" discusses the new and the wonderful between things. What do we think of when we see something exceptional or how ordinary turns strange as we look at or concentrate on it long enough? How ordinary can be a subject of transformation and transmission and also to engender new connections even a subject and materials remain same? Potentially, time or the experience of time transforms the thing into the other thing, the fact into the fiction, the natural into the unnatural, or we get used into what we thought unnatural. What kind of thing functions as a variable? What is the act that transforms the thing to be transformed? Maybe, a place, a location, a human being or a sound? These are the things we are thinking about.
Flat1 at Schikandergasse 2 is an off-space in the fourth district of Vienna. Simultaneously with the openings of the close by Schleifmühlgasse galleries, flat1 presents thematic group shows of generally 5-8 participating artists. The focus of flat1 is on contemporary fine arts. Interdisciplinary fringe events such as live music, DJ-lines and performances are work in progress. The chief aim of flat1 is to support the creative exchange between inter/national artists who share similar thematic and/or artistic approaches and might not have met otherwise. In the independent environment of flat1 they are given the opportunity to communicate and to create dynamic networks.
The exhibition is supported by The Arts Council of Finland, FRAME Foundation and The Finnish Institute in Germany.
Welcome to the opening of the exhibition on Thursday 20th of September at 7 p.m.
www.flat1.at