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With Seven-league Boots. Stop – Finland. Opening of the exhibition. 24.11.2017.
The contemporary art exhibition “With Seven-league Boots. Stop – Finland. Works from the Kiasma Collection” was on view at the Art Museum "Riga Bourse" in Riga from 25 November 2017 to 7 January 2018.
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The contemporary art exhibition “With Seven-league Boots. Stop – Finland. Works from the Kiasma Collection” was on view at the Art Museum "Riga Bourse" in Riga from 25 November 2017 to 7 January 2018.
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The Boris and Ināra Teterev Foundation in collaboration with the Art Museum RIGA BOURSE and Finland’s Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma continue their presentation of contemporary art collections from the Baltic region.
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This was already the second exhibition introducing contemporary art collections from the Baltic Sea region’s museums and it was dedicated to the centenaries of the Republic of Finland and the Republic of Latvia.
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“A task of equal importance is evoking a thirst for knowledge in Latvian society about expressions of contemporary art right here in Latvia and elsewhere in the region. That’s why we are happy to have the educational programme supplementing the exhibition, which has been adapted to the interests of any visitors, from the youngest viewers to contemporary art experts,” stressed Boris Teterev at the opening of the exhibition.
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Pictured: Director of the Danish Cultural Institute in Latvia Simon Drewsen Holmberg, Ambassador of Finland in Latvia Olli Kantanen and Chairman of the board of the Danish Cultural Institute in Copenhagen Carsten Haurum.
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Jani Leinonen. We are sorry for what we’ve done we only wanted to have some fun. 2013. Light work. Collection Finnish National Gallery/ Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
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Vita Birzaka, the curator of exhibitions at the Art Museum "Riga Bourse".
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Finland’s Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma is a place where different views are forever coming into contact, making people look at art and cultural phenomena in an unusual way. The selection of works for the Riga exhibition is associated with the pop-art direction.
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The exhibition was accompanied by a varied programme of events and activities including public lecture series Global Pop Art by the art academic Helēna Demakova. Pictured: artist Brigita Zelča-Aispure, COO, Member of the board, The Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation, art academic Helēna Demakova, artist Ojārs Pētersons.
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In the mid-1950s, art critic and curator Lawrence Alloway (1926–1990) gave the designation “popular art” to the new art phenomenon, which gained its inspiration in the advertising, television and industrial design world and directly transferred public personalities and visual symbols into works of art.
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Richard Hamilton, (1922–2011) one of the first artists moving in this direction, in turn, defined its desirable qualities – popularity, cheapness, its mass production, wit, sexiness, external glitz and Big Business.
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Today’s artists continue to be inspired by popular culture, finding ideas in the same way in the advertising environment, the internet and social media. For example, Jacob Dahlgren, gained his impulse from a video for his work which is a three-dimensional object from coloured ribbons and in which the visitor can dive in.
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Tuomas A. Laitinen. Heat. 2007. Lightbox, sticker, UV printout on transparency, engine, 140 x 170, 5 x 18, 5 cm. Collection Finnish National Gallery/ Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
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Robert Lucander. B. K. 1995. Alkyd on wood, 200 x 140 cm. Collection Finnish National Gallery/ Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
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