Hind: €4800
Visual artist and filmmaker Eino Ruutsalo (1921–2001) was one of Finland’s leading experimental artists in the 1960s. He often created his works in collaboration with musicians, poets and dancers. Ruutsalo’s film Kinetic Pictures (1962) won international praise and earned him the reputation of a pioneer in Finnish experimental cinema. This single-gallery exhibition celebrates the centenary of the artist’s birth.
Eino Ruutsalo: Kinetic Pictures (1962). Detail from the film. Finnish National Gallery / Ateneum Art Museum.
Eino Ruutsalo moved fluidly between different mediums and combined them freely. Most of his work from the 1960s consists of visual poetry, experimental short films, object assemblages, kinetic light works and documentary and feature films, but his extensive output also includes graphic art, paintings and sculptures. His free approach to different mediums of art and interplay between them made Ruutsalo a pioneer of Finnish contemporary art.
As early as the 1960s, Eino Ruutsalo exhibited his work in prestigious international forums, notably in conjunction with the cross-disciplinary Fluxus movement. His experimental short films were screened in the United States and are still presented in international art museums and at film festivals.
The exhibition is curated by researcher Marko Home and Ateneum exhibitions producer Katja Ikäläinen. Marko Home’s art-historical dissertation on Ruutsalo’s 1960s-era output will come to completion before the opening of the exhibition.
A book on Ruutsalo written by Home and published by Parvs will be released on 14 September 2021 (in Finnish).
Galerii nimi: Ateneum Art Museum
Aadress: Kaivokatu 2, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
Lahtiolekuajad: T 10:00 - 18:00 K-N 10:00 - 20:00 R 10:00 - 18:00 L-P 10:00 - 17:00
Avatud: 14.09.2021 — 27.03.2022
Aadress: Kaivokatu 2, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
Lahtiolekuajad: T 10:00 - 18:00 K-N 10:00 - 20:00 R 10:00 - 18:00 L-P 10:00 - 17:00
Avatud: 14.09.2021 — 27.03.2022
