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Theme of the season 2012: Recycled Art / kierrätystaide
Artists: Maria Huhmarniemi, Kaarina Kaikkonen, Kaisa Salmi, Tiina Valkeapää. more artists coming later

ympäristötaide, Pertti Saari






     



Recycled Art of Siiri Niemelä speaks out against crimes of humanity!

 

Siiri Niemelä,
Siiri Niemelä, "Messangers", 60 birds made of cotton tissue nappies, Tampere, 2009
/ "Viestintuojat". Noin 60 kpl vanhoista lasten harsovaipoista tehtyjä lintuja. Tampere

The "messingers" calls us to pray together for a new hope.


Installations of Siiri Niemelä: Oil in the golden plates on a dining table, bloody dresses of little girls in the other room...

Siiri Niemelä lives and works in Ranua and Tampere.
Her art is 90% made of  recycled materials.

Siiri Niemelä, G8 
                  Meny, waste oil, gold leaf
Siiri Niemelä, "G8 Meny", waste oil, gold leaf,
plates, spoons, table
Siiri Niemelä, Broken Lifes, kierrätystaide
Siiri Niemelä, "Broken Lifes", girls dresses, blood

 

 

 

 

 

 


In the middle of our age` s everyday horrors -  wars, crimes against humanity, and broken lifes: - sends artist Siiri Niemelä messages to an every child, man and women to pray for hope together.

Siiri Niemelä, Wíshes, ceramic hands of child, women and man, feathers of a ostrich.
Siiri Niemelä, "Wíshes", ceramic hands of child, women and man, feathers of an ostrich.



Recycled Art: second-hand cups and plates

 Maria Huhmarnimi Moment, Recycled Art, second-hand cups and plates / kierrätystaide
Maria huhmarniemi: Hetki / Moment, Galleria 5, 2009.

Maria Huhmarniemi: "Various durations of time"
www: Maria Huhmarniemi is an artist living and working in Rovaniemi. She is a chairperson at the Artists ´ Association of Lapland and lecturer at the faculty of Art and Design in the University of Lapland.

”Recycled materials and old handicraft techniques evoke memories and the value of traditions.” The artist considers social and cultural sustainability in addition to ecological issues.

Maria Huhmarniemi: In a series of installations ”Various Durations of Time”, the artist measures time with coffee cups.

By making installations from old coffee cups and saucers, Maria aims to represent a theme, a moment and time passing by. ”Various Durations of Time” includes several artworks: Maltese-Cross (Lychnis chalcedonica) and a Peacock Butterfly (Inachis io). The artworks are a kind of vanitas symbols, bringing the presence of history to the moment.

 Maria huhmarniemi, kierrätystaide
Maria Huhmarniemi, Arktikum, Rovaniemi, 2009 

Huhmarniemi has hundreds of coffee cups with their saucers. She has collected modest everyday varieties from second hand shops and flea markets for  10 cents per cup or five Euros per bag. As it happens, some of them are more valuable and hunted by design collectors. The classical cups of Nordic design are an important element in the installations. The audience can recognise well known cups and plates and associate them to a certain decade and period or time. For example, in the word Hetki (Moment), the cups are arranged so that the oldest are at the beginning of the word and the newest at the end.

  Maria Huhmarniemi, kierrätystaide 
Maria huhmarniemi: "Neitoperho / Peacock butterfly", and "Korento / Dragonfly", Ars Kärsämäki, 2009.

Maria Huhmarniemi makes art using handicraft techniques and by collecting, sorting and building materials from old items. She recycles materials after the exhibitions. They end up either in new installations or are returned to the second hand shops.

Her new work “Seasons” from the series of “Various Durations of Time” will be shown in Valo Gallery as part of an exhibition by the Artists ´ Association of Lapland in Rovaniemi 19.7- 4.9.2012. “Seasons” represents an experience of time through the seasons in the North: the long winter from dark to light, flashy spring and heartfelt autumn.


Recycled Art: second-hand shoes

Kaisa Salmi, Road to Heaven, Talinna 2011, installation, recycling art
Kaisa Salmi: "Road to Heaven III", Tallin, Estonia, Hall D of the Kultuurikatel 05.10 - 28.10. 2011

Kaisa Salmi - "Road to Heaven"
Kaisa Salmi invited everyone to bring their old shoes along to this event, which the artist then painted white.

Environmental artist Kaisa Salmi was recognised by the Finnish Estonia Institute as Artist of the Year 2011.
Fine panoramafoto documentation of the ‘Road to Heaven’ installation in Tallin, Estonia, Hall D of the Kultuurikatel 05.10 - 28.10. 2011.
‘Road to Heaven’ has made its way to Tallinn from Helsinki before moving on to Stockholm.

Kaisa Salmi CV
Kaisa Salmi Homepage
Kaisa salmi, road to heaven, itakeskus, Helsinki 2011, recycled art
Kaisa salmi, "Road to Heaven II", Tallinnasquare, Itäkeskus, Helsinki 2011
Kaisa Salmi, Rotterdam, recycled art
Kaisa Salmi : Road to Heaven IV, Rotterdam Square, Tallinn, Estonia, 2011, recycling


 Recycled Art: plastic garbage

Tiina Valkeapää, kierrätystaide, recycled art, Rakkauskirje / A Love Letter
Tiina Valkeapää: A Love Letter, plastic waste / Rakkauskirje, muoviroska, 2010, Koskenmaan Kartano, Hyvinkää, Finland

A Plastic Planet by Tiina Valkeapää
Tiina Valkeapää`s earlier works have quite often been made of wood or other nature`s materials.

Tiina valkeapää lives and works in Hyvinkää, Finland
portfolio woodworks -pdf
http://www.artoutdoors.net/valkeapaa_tiina.htm
http://www.turuntaiteilijaseura.fi/flux_aura/tiina_valkeapaa.html

But now - Why in the hell plastic garbage!
Tiina Valkeapää tells:
"My relationship with environmental art is a bit complex nowadays. I`d like my works to speak out, to have a social message. I want them be more than just aesthetic."

A Sign, ceramic waste / Merkki, keraaminen jäte, 2010, Kivinokka, Helsinki, Finland
Tiina Valkeapää: A Sign, ceramic waste / Merkki, keraaminen jäte, 2010, Kivinokka, Helsinki, Finland

 

  Tiina Valkeapää, A Totem, plastic waste / Toteemi, muoviroska 2009 A Plastic Planet, plastic waste / MuoviMaa, muoviroska, Fluxation 2010, Turku, Finland Tiina valkeapää, Madonna ja lapsi, yksityiskohta, kierrätystaide
Tiina Valkeapää: A Totem, plastic waste / Toteemi, muoviroska 2009
A Plastic Planet, plastic waste / MuoviMaa, muoviroska, Fluxation 2010, Turku, Finland
Madonna and Child, plastic Waste / Madonna ja lapsi, muoviroska


 

Recycled Art: second-hand clothes

   
Kaarina Kaikkonen: "We are All in the Same Boat" Sweden, 2009, installation made of shirts

-pdf portfol
www: "Towards Flowing Waters" homepage environmentalart.net

Kaarina Kaikkonen in Italy 2012

Kaarina Kaikkonen - Are We Still Going On?, Collezione Maramotti, installation, recycling art 

Kaarina Kaikkonen - Are We Still Going On?, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, 26 February - 28 October, 2012

Kaarina Kaikkonen. Towards Tomorrow, MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, 14 April – 15 July 2012
http://www.fondazionemaxxi.it/2012/04/14/kaarina-kaikkonen/?lang=en

Kaarina Kaikkonen - Are We Still Going On?, Collezione Maramotti, 2012, recycled art 
Are We Still Going On?, Kaarina Kaikkonen 2012

Conceived specifically for the former factory of Max Mara fashion company, now housing the Collezione Maramotti, the large installation Are We Still Going On? by Kaarina Kaikkonen follows and accompanies the compositional structure of the building, an interesting example of brutalist and organicist architecture from the 1950’s.

The work created for Collezione Maramotti is the first step of a project that will see the creation of a second installation, Towards Tomorrow, for the MAXXI-Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, conceived for the square of the Museum, and opening on 14 April 2012. As a big sail, the artwork will move with the wind linking one of the empty spaces on the outside profile of the museum and thus reshaping the building designed by Zaha Hadid.

Links of "Are We Still Going On?"     
http://www.collezionemaramotti.org/en/work-in-progress/2012225/Kaarina-Kaikkonen-/1258 (klick press reliese)
http://www.exibart.com/Print/notizia.asp?IDNotizia=36868&IDCategoria=1
http://www.atpdiary.com/2012/02/kaarina-kaikkonen-huma-bhabha.html
http://www.abitare.it/en/art-2/are-we-still-going-on-kaarina-kaikkonen/?pid=7597/#singleimage-7597








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Harri Markkula, Environmental Art, Hot Cube, Kuuma Kuutio -sauna, veistos
Hot Cube in the River Aura, in the middle of the city, is a minimalistic sauna made by sculptor Harri Markkula. The outer surface of the wooden and windowless Hot Cube is tarred. The visitors can observe life in the water through the lattices of the sauna floor. The sauna is accessed by a small bridge.
Hot Cube is designed to be a sensory site. The scents of fire, water, wood and tar strengthen the experience of archetypical basic elements.  The steam of the ”water-based” sculpture is blissfully soft.


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EnvironmentalArt.net Homepages
Featured Artists / Taiteilijat

Marja Hakala Marja Hakala
Kalle Hamm,
Dzamil Kamanger
Kalle Hamm
Timo Jokela Timo Jokela
Kaarina Kaikkonen Towards Flowing Waters
Pekka Kainulainen Pekka Kainulainen
Sauli Miettunen Sauli Miettunen
Anne Pehkonen Anne Pehkonen
Jaakko Pernu Jaakko Pernu, Flux Aura, ympäristötaide, pajuveistos
Michael Rahikainen Michael
Anni Rapinoja Anni Rapinoja
Riitta Schildt Riitta Schildt, ympäristötaide, environmentalart.net
Jenni Tieaho Jenni Tieaho, ympäristötaide, environmentalart.net
Lea Turto Lea Turto, Plastic Garden, ympäristötaide, recycled art, kierrätystaide
Hanna Vainio Land Art of Hanna Vainio
Vinha-Jonna Vinha-Jonna, ympäristötaide
Katja Öhrnberg Katja Öhrnberg, ympäristötaide

Näyttelyryhmät /
Exhibition groups


Fire Art

Fire Bird, Fire Art, Fire Sculpture, tulitaide, http://www.environmentalart.net/fire_art/

Näyttelyryhmät /
Exhibition groups


Oranki Art Park 2006, Pello, Lapland

Oranki Art Park 2007

 

Näyttelyryhmät /
Exhibition groups


Art and the Landscape in Finland

An exhibition collection of 20 artists, Adeleide Festival center 2007


Näyttelyryhmät /
Exhibition groups


PARK - Environmental Art and Sculpture Exhibition

An exhibition collection of 23 artists, Ala-Malmin puisto, Helsinki 24.08. - 28.09. 2007

Artists visited in Finland 07

 
FUMICO AZUMA,
(Japan / London)
 
Laura Feldberga
(Latvia)
 
Ojars Feldbergs
(Latvia)
 

Environmental Art
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Suomen ympäristötaiteilijat /
Finnish Environmental Artists


Projektit, Säätiöt, Residenssit ja näyttelyt
/Foundation, Project, Residense and virtual gallerys


Atrikkeleita/Articles
Ympäristötaidekoulutus mm tuli sekä lumi- ja jääteoksia
/Educational art projects; fire, ice and snow
Taidekoulut/Art Schools
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