NAIVISM – DOMESTIC CONTEMPORARY ART; ROMANIAN TEXTILE ART AND CONTEMPORARY PRINTMAKING; PRINTMAKING BY WOLFGANG TROSCHKE
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NAIVISM – domestic contemporary art
The exhibition Naivism presents a couple of dozen domestic artists of today, who are united by certain means of expression of naïve art. The genuine means characteristic of folk art and the art of children and natural peoples – the simplicity of the subject, the accuracy of detail and decoration, the distortion of proportions – offer a starting point for their artistic expression. Some are naive genuinely and unintentionally, while others use the means of naïve art with deliberate stylistic means.
Milja Aarnio, Andreas Alariesto, Veijo Hukka, Kaija-Riitta Iivonen, Alice Kaira, Lea Kauppi, Hannu Konola, Inari Krohn, Pirkko Lepistö, Tuomas Mäntynen, Aune Paulin, Olli-Pekka Riihikoski, Thelma Salo, Veikko Sirén, Saara have been invited to the exhibition Tikka, Pirkko Valo, Virpi Vanas, Nikolai Lehto, Hannu Riikonen, Viljo Mäkinen, Tarja Polari and Seija Toivola-Koski. A certain retrospect has been obtained for the exhibition by borrowing the earlier production of the invited artists over a period of more than ten years from museums and other public collections. The exhibition also features the bright and genuinely childlike art of Arvi A. Koskinen (1904-1977), who influenced Satakunta and received the state award in 1972.
ROMANIAN TEXTILE ART AND CONTEMPORARY PRINTMAKING
The exhibition of Romanian textile art and contemporary graphic art gives an indication of the diverse appearance of these art fields in today’s Romania. The internationally known Romanian textile art is still firmly based on folk art: the color scale, production methods and materials are the same as in folk textiles. The appreciation of textile art in Romania is shown by the extensive exhibition of textile art held in Bucharest every four years.
The exhibition’s twelve graphic artists present the guidelines of contemporary Romanian graphic art, different stylistic solutions and ways of doing things.
The exhibition is organized at the Pori Art Museum by the Finland-Romania Society and KSL’s Satakunta district organization. The exhibition ends on 18.8.
WOLFGANG TROSCHKE – Printmaking
The West German printmaker Wolfgang Troschke (b.1947) received the main prize of the Graphica Creativa ’75 exhibition at the international graphics triennial in 1975. Luova Grafiikka ry. has now, after six years, organized a small-scale exhibition of Wolfgang Troschke to show what has happened to the artist during this time and what he is currently doing. The exhibition features the artist’s recent production from 1976-81, both large-scale drawings and printmaking.
Wolfgang Troschke has studied poster art in Münster, 1966-70 at the Münster School of Art and Industry. Since 1978, he has been a professor at Münster University of Applied Sciences.
In addition to the above-mentioned award, Wolfgang Troschke has received the prize of the International Biennale of Printmaking in Ljubljana in 1975, the prize of the VI International Biennale of Printmaking in Krakow in 1976 and the prize of the International Biennale of Printmaking in Tokyo in 1976.
Translated with DeepL