Minna Kangasmaa | Merja Miettinen | Silja Puranen
Craft Museum of Finland, Foyer Gallery, Jyväskylä, Finland
18.8.–9.10.2011
Opening: 17.8.2011, 18 h
An exhibition at the Craft Museum of Finland Foyer Gallery August 18 - October 9, 2011
The common denominators in these three artists’ work are the role of crafts in creating art, and re-processing and recycling materials. They navigate along the same routes in the everyday world of textiles and decorations. Each of them makes use of the typical Finnish visual culture in their own unique way.
Kangasmaa’s tableware decorations, Miettinen’s crafts and Puranen’s home textiles are a part of the everyday Finnish collective memory. They can be found in homes, holiday cottages or at the very least in the grandmother’s house.
Minna Kangasmaa is a sculptor whose work often deals with nature imagery and crafts tradition. The works on Merja Miettinen reflect appreciation of beauty - whether her subject or material were traditional crafts, toys or maps. Silja Puranen’s works are essentially about humanity, and the burden of being human.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Craft Museum of Finland
Kauppakatu 25
40100 Jyväskylä
Finland
info.craftmuseum(at)jkl.fi
http://www.craftmuseum.fi/nayttelyt/11_kasityksia.htm