Hind: €308
Fish artist Niina Räty opens the background of the exhibition: For the last couple of years I've been painting fish and fishing a few times. In the midst of my own work, I have talked a lot with my colleagues about fish, painting and eating them, meanings and herring steaks. I invited fish makers to participate in the exhibition. The history of painting is full of fish still lifes, silver-sided fish on silver platters, fish juxtaposed with a translucent onion, or squirming on the dirty counter of a market stall. As a subject, fish is loaded with meanings, often Christian ones, vanitasphile and everyday description, but above all it often seems to be full of the painter's pure joy. A fish is a stick through which light is refracted.
Photo from Yö Galleria
Other fish artists’ thoughts on fish:
Fish are a joy for people both in the water and in the jar. Humans like fish too much, and that’s why ecosystems are destabilizing.
– Mikko Sauli
A philosopher of the past fishing, sleepless in the white night.
– Liisa Karintaus
What is hard in us? It is armlessness, leglessness, muteness, silence, darkness, dampness, passivity, archaism and immobility. Man meets himself in the eyes of a fish. The image of a fish is the image of a person.
– Siiri Haarla
Often already as children we adopt the traditions and symbolism related to fishing. Generation after generation fishes as it has always been fished.
– Melina Paakkonen
As a resting place, the home of a fish.
– Maija Helasvuo
The fish, ikhtys in Greek, was the creed of the early Christians and one of the oldest Christian symbols. According to one church father, the Jesus fish is a big fish and Christians are a bunch of small fish.
– Ilkka Sariola
In the dark, in the light, swimming.
– Mikko Paakkonen
Fish is a beautiful movement.
– Riikka Laitinen
Long-nosed and large-mouthed, that’s how the pike has always been. Self-contained and natural from a young age.
– Outimaija Hakala
Galerii nimi: Yö Galleria
Aadress: Lönnrotinkatu 33 00180 Helsinki
Lahtiolekuajad: T-R 14:00 - 19:00 L-P 12:00 - 17:00
Avatud: 04.10.2022 — 09.10.2022
Aadress: Lönnrotinkatu 33 00180 Helsinki
Lahtiolekuajad: T-R 14:00 - 19:00 L-P 12:00 - 17:00
Avatud: 04.10.2022 — 09.10.2022
