FAIRYTALE IMAGES – KINDERGARTEN EXHIBITION

PRESS RELEASE

The journey into the world of art starts in childhood. The first steps are taken. It’s good to take them when your mind is open, your imagination boundless.

The idea behind the Fairytale Images exhibition is to provide the ingredients for a journey into the image, the poem. To awaken, to stimulate, to bring close.

The paintings in the Fairytale Images series have been selected from exhibitions held at the Pori Art Museum. The artists are Nikolai Lehto, Raimo Kanerva, Eira Ruottunen, Virpi Vanas, Sinikka Palonen and Pirkko Valo.

Fairy tales are joyful art. For those in whom dreams, fairy tales and humour live. Fairy tales find their ingredients in folk art, in the world of children, in dreams, in stories, under the covers, in the richness of imagination. Its world is full of humanity, richness of detail, the right to see things as they are.

Joy is the overriding expression. Behind it, life reveals itself in all its fullness of feeling, its darker shades, memories, fears, hopes, dreams.

The paintings in the Fairytale Images exhibition are accompanied by poems written by Kari Levola, a young Pori-based writer of children’s plays, the young novel “Roof Hawk”, the poetry collection “Avovedet”, film scripts and songs. For his debut collection Kari Levola received the City of Pori Art Prize in 1980 and the J.H. Erko Prize in 1981.

In his poems he has tried to find paths to paintings, moods, to see colours, details, to think about their ideas. The paths go on, in a good work of art one can wander indefinitely. Always finding something new, something to think about, something to imagine.

The Fairytale Images exhibition is intended for kindergartens and primary schools and everywhere among children, to stimulate them with images, with poetry. This is the beginning. Even from these works of art you can write other poems, countless ones. And from poems you can paint other paintings. You go on.

The exhibition is on display at the Pori Art Museum from 4 to 19 September 1982. After that the exhibition will be on loan from the Pori Art Museum. A separate slide set of the exhibition has also been produced for loan.

Translated with DeepL