EXPO ‘New Masters’ – South Karelia Art Museum, Lappeenranta (Finland) – 26 Oct.-9 Dec. 2012

New Masters

Saimaa University of Applied Sciences presents nine new Masters of Culture and Art from fine art studies in the South Carelian Art Museum in Lappeenranta, Finland. The viewers of this MA-degree exhibition will experience new images, questions and encounters. What happens if jewellery is the human body? How are the chaos theory and order linked in shape of a stone chain? What are those old men doing in the art work of a young artist?
In the exhibition the discount percentages of shops are visible in the faceted stones and super shiny surfaces. Personal memories are shown as rough stone pendants. The starting point for an art work can begin from a tradition of herbarium or the identity of the artist in between two countries and cultures. Beside materialistic approaches, the exhibition shows contemporary jewellery with a twist of moving images and also a collection of hundred fairies with butterfly wings.
NEW MASTERS exhibition shows proposals and views to the nowadays fine art. The nine artists of this exhibition have in common not only the new degree, but they have been working as international artists and have previous education in fine art and design. 

Artists:  Ulla Ahola — Ami Avellán — Mari Keto — Sirja Knaapi — Marek Mrowinski — Outi Peippo — Nelli Tanner — Elo Uibokand — Ivary Vimm

Marek Mrowinski  Necklace: Going to pieces without falling apart 2012  Diabase (carved from one piece of stone)

Ami Avellán  Neckpiece: Roots #16 2012  Aluminium, hand made reindeer leather, jute, paper, silk, sewing thread, acrylic paint, pvc tube

Ulla Ahola 2012  Diabase, 23 kt gold, marker

Nelli Tanner -  Brooch: Light to Carry 2012 – Silver, cibatool

 Sirja Knaapi - « I’m not that old that I couldn’t bend » -   Wood, fabric 

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- Lappeenranta
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