Editor: Lea Turto
Anni
Rapinoja
Lives
and works in Hailuoto
Email:
a.rapinoja(at)gmail.com
WWW:rapinoja.com/
Online Exhibition
Wardrobe
of Nature
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Finnish:
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The
works in the Wardrobe of Nature series depict the relationship between
people and nature. The forms are primarily from the human world,
but the works themselves are a part of nature, works of art.
Nature
has been a partner to Hailuoto artist Anni Rapinoja for nearly 20
years.
Studies in botany and geography have been crucially important to
her. The art of nature and environmental activism have
gone hand-in-hand.
More
information: pdf -catalogue
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Thease
Shoes is made of tea-leaved Willow.

Anni Rapinoja: Autumn trip, fellow
worker Bog worthleberry.
People have drifted far away from their home, from nature.
Seeing forms of ones own world combined with nature awakens
a subconscious need to get close to it, to get inside.
The art brings out a craving to be close to nature, a desire to
go back home. -tells Anni Rapinoja
The works in the Wardrobe of Nature series depict the relationship
between people and nature. The forms are primarily from the human
world, but the works themselves are a part of nature, works of art.
Structurally, the shoes, handbags,
goblets... are especially light; the structure of the mould
comprises tissue paper hardened with rye porridge. Large works often
have cotton or woolen material as supporting structures.
The need to touch these works is bewildering and understandable.
People have drifted far away from their home, from nature.
Seeing forms of ones own world combined with nature awakens
a subconscious need to get close to it, to get inside. The explorer
of the art does not take the time to observe his or her actions,
although on a conscious level they know that you dont touch
works of art. The art brings out a craving to be close to nature,
a desire to go back home.
Anni
Rapinoja
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