STAR GUEST Anne Vepsä: Dancing at the Art Museum

Jaana Partanen’s exhibition Mental Alchemy – Matrix Layer has brought to the visitors to the Kuopio Art Museum not only a breeze from the 3D world, but also a chance to participate in the artwork. Sensors that recognise a person entering the showroom and capture him or her along to the fractal world reflected on […]

Modern-day Leonardo and whirlpools of the mind; excerpts from the press

”A modern-day Leonardo da Vinci, Jaana Partanen dives inside man in her art.” Karjalainen / Kimmo Nevalainen, 20 April 2013. ”The visually impressive artworks wink at you and enchant you. They are also portraits of the people appearing in them.” Kaleva / Leena Kangas, 27 January 2013. ”Man is as such a miracle and the […]

Secrets of the mind and 3D artworks at the Joensuu Art Museum

The human brain is the world’s most complex and the most developed organic entity. It evolves little by little till long in the adult age. Interaction and emotional experiences influence the development of the brain and the mind since babyhood: thinking, memory, imagination and consciousness. Repeated and positive experiences, predictability and trust are the building […]

Celebration of female love: A Real Princess sails on Kallavesi as a guest of the Anti festival

”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 […]

Jukka Poika, Jaana Partanen and 600 physicians

In the legendary cradle of nightlife, Puikkari of Kuopio, Jaana Partanen with her science-art talk comes on stage as the warm-up to Jukka Poika. Would I ever have believed this! The Mental Alchemy media artwork runs on the screens around. It is a magical dance worked out from material produced by means of physicians’ and […]

Youth unemployment and parents’ authority meet art

My friends had driven quite a distance to see the Mental Alchemy media artwork in a summer exhibition at the lovely Piippuhalli in Savolanranta, Savonlinna. However, the doors of the exhibition space were closed. By chance, the father of the youth on employment subsidy and in supervision shift walked by. The helpful father called his […]