Decorative
plate, 1980s.
Violets,
larks, swans, pearls, roses. Butterflies, mirrors, clocks stopped at fifteen
minutes past twelve, volatile portraits of beautiful women and men. Pure poetry in ceramics.
Our
beloved ceramic artist Birger Kaipiainen (1915-88) offers us now a lavish celebration for
the eye and heart in EMMA, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, thanks to the collector Kyösti
Kakkonen who owns
a major collection of Kaipiainen´s art.
In the
chilly climate of Scandinavian design Birger Kaipiainen was a strange bird of
paradise who always knew his own way and value.
As the
artist said in an interview to mark his 60th birthday, ”The imagination doesn´t
cost a penny. It has no boundaries, and nobody can dictate where it changes
it´s course."
Angel
(sculpture, 1967).
Bust of
Birger Kaipiainen by Michael Schilkin (1942).
Birger
Kaipiainen – kuriton kaunosielu (Aesthete Extraordinaire, Birger Kaipiainen´s
Ceramic Fantasies)
is open until January 12th 2014 in EMMA, Ahertajantie 5, Tapiola, Espoo.
How and when to get there: www.emma.museum
P.S. A specialty you can now buy only in EMMA is the wallpaper Kiurujen yö (Night of the Skylarks), designed in 1958 and now available in colours approved by the artist but never before this in production.
How and when to get there: www.emma.museum
P.S. A specialty you can now buy only in EMMA is the wallpaper Kiurujen yö (Night of the Skylarks), designed in 1958 and now available in colours approved by the artist but never before this in production.
Photos©Paula Hietaranta