Leimahduspiste - new photography by Pekka Järveläinen

First you see it, then you see it differently. These pictures do really challenge your mind and imagination. 

The Finnish photographer Pekka Järveläinen shows now his new style of  photography at Luova Gallery in Helsinki. The name of the exhibition is Leimahduspiste (Flashing Point), and it tells exactly what happens when you see them. 

Are these really photographs, many visitors were wondering. Yes, they are, and they are real. 

Pekka has such a solid, frank way to look at the world. No cheating, no photoshopping but a lot of magical discoveries. 

For example the photo Hypotenuse looks quite complicated but shows simply a café table after rain in Paris.

Pekka Järveläinen: Hypotenuusa - Hypotenuse, 2012. 

 

Pekka Järveläinen: Kartalla - On the map, 2012.

  

Pekka Järveläinen: Äkkiväärä - Sudden turn, 2012.

 

Pekka Järveläinen: Vähän muistettavaa - Not much to be remembered, 2011.

 

  At the opening all the guests had their own favorites.

 

Pekka Järveläinen: Leimahduspiste (Flashing Point – with emotion and rationality) at Luova Gallery, Suvilahdenkatu 10 A, 5.floor, is open on Mon- Fri 11 am to 6 pm until April 12th. 
Discussions with the artist on Saturday 23.3. at noon - 3 pm.

www.luova.fi/nayttelyt.php

That´s not All Folks!

They are funny. They are clever. They are beautiful and brilliantly well made.
They are the cartoons of Warner Bros. Cartoon art from the golden years from the 1930s through the 1960s and now exhibited in EMMA, Espoo Museum of Modern Art. This is a second time this collection is on view in Europe. 

The large private collection of original artwork and films is owned by the American journalist and author Steve Schneider, who got interested in those almost forgotten treasures and started buying them just before they were of about to be destroyed. Sometimes he had to to ask for a check from his mother who did not understand nor appreciate the idea at all, she found it a waste of money. 

So the mothers do not always know best - the collection of original masterpieces and the creative process of making them is now so valuable that it is kept in high-security storage in the States. 

Cel of Tweety and Sylvester with background from cartoon 
Tweet and Sour, 1956.

The exhibition The Art on Warner Bros. Cartoons is open until May 19th, check the details here:

www.emma.museum/en/BugsBunnyAndFriends

Efva Attling happy in Helsinki

Radiant Efva wearing her own jewellery designs, 

Crystal Rain earrings and Crystal Fall necklace.

The designer Efva Attling, the queen of statement jewelry, had a big party yesterday evening to celebrate the first 10 years of her flagship store in Helsinki.

The designer gave a present to her guests as well: the lovely duet of her wife Eva Dahlgren with her son Simon Strömstedt.

Simon Strömstedt singing with his bonus mamma Eva Dahlgren.

The address of Efva Attling Flagship Store in Helsinki is Mikonkatu 3. Opening times are Mo-Fr 10 am-8 pm,  Sat 10 am-5 pm.
Until the first of April there are also special offers at Helsinki store, check them here:  
www.efvaattling.com/

Photos © Paula Hietaranta

Waiting for your postcard...

Miaow! Catwomen cards from 1904-10.

It is really amazing what amount of fantasy worlds you can create with photos, scissors, brushes and glue! 

The Finnish author and scholar of visual culture Harri Kalha has now opened his treasure box of classic postcard collection and written a most wonderful book Ihme ja kumma (Wonder of wonders) - Surrealism and nonsense of the postcards in the beginning of 1900s.

During that time postcards were an important phenomenon, and even many famous artists were avid collectors of postcard art and greatly influenced by it. 

The author leaves no postcard unturned, and the result is a wild mixture of culture history, symbolism, dadaism, subconscious and romantic feelings.

224 pages, over 500 pictures.

Originally the Multiple babies cards were meant to incourage families 

to have more children. This German card is dated 1909.  

The fan card of Caroline Otero, one of the famous Belle Époque beauties.

 Got interested? You can buy the book here:

www.adlibris.com/bonnierbooksfinland/product.aspx?isbn=9510388084