STAR GUEST Tiina Pusa: Thorns hidden under beauty

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 […]

Tiina Pusa’s doctoral thesis awakens Sleeping Beauties

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 […]