We warmly welcome you to artist Jaana Partanen’s Everyday Alchemy exhibition opening on 18th of November 2017 at 1 pm. The Transit / Välitila Art event is included in the Finland 100 programme, consisting of two art exhibitions at the Väsby Art Hall in Sweden. The exhibition will be opened by Professor Pekka Suutari from […]
A couple of years ago I wrote the book Äidin sylissä ja muita kuvakulmia äitiyteen (In mother’s arms and other aspects of motherhood, Atena 2011). In it I examined maternity through the visual arts. It was much easier to find idealised mother images than ordinary ones. To my disappointment, at the time of writing I […]
In my doctoral thesis, I studied the semantic relationships between art and old age. The art material brought out a manifold old age, which led me to set a manifold concept of art as the basis of art education as well. My study materials included Jaana Partanen’s artworks of the Sleeping Beauty series. They offered […]
”Blue Wedding”, the final event of the ANTI Contemporary Art Festival that has found its home in Kuopio, sailed in the autumnal nature of Kallavesi with 120 artists from around the world and local public. The adolescent daughters of the artwork A Real Princess (from 2007) dived into the underwater world for hours, taking an […]
Jaana’s Sleeping Beauty exhibition set of the Everyday Alchemy trilogy has been sleeping for years. The exhibition set describes wise and active old women in silverised imaginary portraits. It deals with the frailty of existence, on one hand, and the strength of man, on the other. Tiina Pusa says she sees ”– in the series […]