quid pro quo

quid pro quo

This year Finland will have a grand display within the EXPO 2010 in Shanghai, the Pavillion designed by the JKMM architects, titled ’Kirnu’ is nearly complete. Kirnu is located in the center of the main site of the fair, facing the Chinese Pavillion and has already attracted a great deal of attention not only with its curved form but also for its sustainability and eco-friendliness.

Drawing on paper for me is just a zone where I am for awhile and then move on. In making this series of drawings there is no apparent beginning or end, they exist as evidence of a moment between past and present.

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Disorient – Fiona Tan

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Anita Seppä starts the journey to the Universe of Fiona Tan with the famous words of Augustinus.

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Irving Penn

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Irving Penn was one of the most influential photographers of our time. His iconic images helped define 20th-century photography.

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Five minutes by a vulva at the museum

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Leena-Maija Rossi, Kristiina-instituutti, University of Helsinki researcher is interested in the visual representation of gender and sexuality, takes us on a critical tour of Kiasma, to immerse us into the recent world of Pipilotti Rist, entitled ‘Elixir’.

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How long is now?

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‘Be Here Now’ reads the title of the famous 1971 book on spirituality and meditation by Ram Dass – but do we all agree on what is meant by now?

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Ars Electronica

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Professor Erkki Huhtamo invites us for a tour of the 30th anniversary of ‘Ars Electronica Festival’, held in Linz, an Austrian city that may still today be infamous for some as the planned site for Hitler’s Führermuseum.

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Woman of monumental sculptures

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According to art historian and critic Juha-Heikki Tihinen, sculptor Laila Pullinen (1933) has carried out enough work for several lifetimes: she became a prolific maker of monumental sculptures and has almost singlehandedly established a vast sculpture park.

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Anish Kapoor

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Art historian and journalist Taava Koskinen reviews Anish Kapoor’s career, which has been full of international success since he graduated from the Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1978.

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Being There – Amal Kenawy

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According to Hoffmann: “Kenawy has taught herself to speak again during the last seven years; she has developed a language of her own, a visual idiom conveyed in soft tones.

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