OKSASENKATU 11

a new envirometal art project by

Scott Andrew Elliot and Roel Meijis

Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki,  5.8 – 25. 8 2010

Tuesday – Sunday 13 to 19

opening Wednesday August 4th, 19

ESILLÄ KATSAUS OKSASENKADUSTA JA AJATUKSIA. KAHVI JA TEE KUULUUVAT KOKONAISUUTEEN
Short history of Oksasenkatu 11 activities, some ideas and coffee/tea.

PARHAIN TERVEISIN
Best regards

Oksasenkatu11

Piipahdus – galleriailta Helsingissä keskiviikkona 19.5.2010 klo 17-20
www.piipahdus.tk

Keskiviikkona 19.5.2010 järjestetään Piipahdus – galleriailta, jolloin
joukko taiteilijavetoisia gallerioita on avoinna keväisen illan klo 17-20.
Piipahdus galleriailta on lokaali ja ilmainen taidetapahtuma Helsingissä.

Gallerioissa paikalla galleristeja ja taiteilijoita. Ohjelmassa free
flipbook day, julkkarijuhlat, galleriakonsertteja, keskustelua, kohtaamisia
ja yllätyksiä.

Piipahdus- galleriailta rohkaisee ihmisiä tutustumaan Helsingin
kaupunginosagallerioihin Töölössä, Punavuoressa, Kampissa ja
Kaartinkaupungissa. Piipahdus-illassa on mukana taiteilijavetoisia ns.
”artist run” -gallerioita. Gallerioiden takana ovat taiteilijaliitot,
taiteilijaseurat, taidekoulut sekä erilaiset taiteilijakollektiivit.

Tapahtumaan osallistuvat: Galleria Volga, Valokuvataiteilijoiden Liiton
galleria Hippolyte, Napa Galleria, 00130Gallery, Kuvataideakatemian
galleria, Galleria FAFA, Myymälä2 Gallery, Helsingin Taiteilijaseuran
Galleria Katariina, Galleria Huuto Viiskulma ja Uudenmaankatu sekä
Oksasenkatu 11.

Tapahtuman galleriat löytyvät Piipahdus-galleriakartan avulla. Karttaa
jaetaan painettuna ja se on printattavissa tapahtuman nettisivuilta.
Kartta rohkaisee omatoimiseen kiertämiseen ja yllättäviinkin
galleriavierailuihin. Kutsu ystäväsi mukaan lähettämälle tapahtuman kartta.

Tapahtuma on ilmainen. (Huom. Myymälä2 galleriakonsertti 4e.)
Tapahtuman nettisivut ja galleriakartta: www.piipahdus.tk.

Tervetuloa osallistumaan Piipahdus-galleriailtaan!

Ystävällisin terveisin,
Piipahdus- galleriaillan tuottajat

Reetta Haarajoki / reetta.haarajoki@gmail.com / 044-3057157 Tiina Rauhala /
tiinar80@gmail.com / tiina.rauhala@fmp.fi / 050-4070553

Cher Ami

They say that if a pigeon finds a new route from a certain place to another, it is easier for the next pigeon to find that same route. Even though the two pigeons would not have had any contact to each other. But what is a new route for a pigeon? All the routes in the sky are straight. There is not any maps or routes in the world of the pigeon, only straight lines and points where they end.
The world of the carrier pigeon consists only of one point and infinity of lines that end in the one point. That one point is the home of the pigeon, and at the same time it is the place where it delivers the message. Somebody must take the pigeon away from it’s home for it to be able to return with a message. And the message that is delivered, you cannot answer it. Unless, of course, the message came from a home of another set of pigeons, and there is a pigeon waiting to get back home.
Here is two opposite models of communication. In the first instance, the communication happens on it’s own accord, and even without the participants being aware of it. It is the collective unconsciousness that guides the pigeons. In the second instance the communication has the most private form you can imagine. You cannot even answer the message.
When I am in love, I want to send my loved one birds, not flowers.

a twin exhibition of Galleri Bergman and Oksasenkatu 11

Tärvetuloa to the opening march from Galleri Bergman to Oksasenkatu 11,
friday 19.3 Gathering at 4 pm, Uudenmaankatu 23c (inner yard).
March starts at 5pm.

(open wed-sun 12-18 from 20.3-28.3 Uudenmaankatu 23c (inner yard) and Oksasenkatu 11)

participants of the group:

Erika Erre
Arvid Hedin
Lotta Ingman
Pipsu Isola
Jaakko Karhunen
Taneli Rautiainen
Nestori Syrjälä
Laura Wesamaa

The Teachings of the Classics

What are the truths we hold to be self-evident?
The lines are drawn. Are you aware of this line between us?
You should be. You wanted to do the right thing, and did the wrong thing. He is
not wise who never makes mistakes, he is wise who makes mistakes and puts them
right.

This world is a house of flames. We know that those who fight must know how to
fight and how not to fight; to tell the truth and not to tell the truth; to be
servile and also how not to be servile; to keep one’s promises and also not to
keep them; how to confront a danger, how to avoid danger; to be known by sight
and unknown. Suffering isn’t enough. It is not enough but learn still. You must
be ready to take over. The ground is made of gold. Oh! gracious vision, flooding
the heart with joy! All the world will be our own.

What is a man? In our view, the principal characteristic of man is that he has
the freedom to choose love. This is the “Easy Way.” Tonight the time has come
to enter the Way most hard to find. We have a world to gain. A blessed hope
springs up on us! All of the world is of our making. What of it can we call
ours? Above the temple hangs the moon. If the moon is an old friend, how can we
flee the world? No more the grief of parting. The night is growing old!

We invite you to eat with us. Only these hands now acting, build the road, the
walls, the towers. We are the scum of the earth. We shall free the world of
shadow; every shop and every room, every road and every meadow. The fleeting
world exists no more. Long is the way a ghost must tread. We are asking for
your verdict.

August Ahlqvist

Oksasenkadun gallerian kevätkausi avautuu August Ahlqvistin eeppisellä
installaatio-näyttelyllä “We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident.”
Näyttely perustuu löyhästi Bertolt Brechtin näytelmään Toimenpide.
Avajaiset perjantaina 5. helmikuuta kello 18.00 –> 20.00
Galleria auki 6.2 – 21.2, ke – su kello 12 – 18
Tervetuloa!

The spring of Oksasenkatu 11 opens up with August Ahlqvist’s epic installation
exhibition called “We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident.”
The exhibition is based freely on the play The Decision by Bertolt Brecht.
Opening friday 5th of february, 18.00 -> 20.00
Gallery open 6.2 – 21.2, wed – su 12 – 18
Welcome!

Oksasenkatu 11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PSDADEO754

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF64QwlyeBs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX6by5M7iYQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liToCbwEGmM

Erika Erre: Let’s See How Things Fall Out

näyttely auki/exhibit open 21.11. – 4.12.
ti-su/ tue-sun 12.00 – 18.00

Oksasenkatu 11

Mikä on saari Mikä on saari Mikä on saari Mikä on saari Mikä on saari Mikä on saari Mikä on saari Mikä on saari Mikä on saari Mikä on saari Mikä on saari Mikä on saari Mikä on saari Mikä on saari?
Saari on kuin muna. Meren muna, se on pyöreä. On kuin saari olisi työntänyt aavikon sivuun.

Korsika-workshopin tuloksia esillä Oksasenkatu 11:ssa.

What is an island What is an island What is an island What is an island What is an island What is an island What is an island What is an island What is an island What is an island What is an island What is an island What is an island What is an island?
An Island is like an egg. An egg of the sea, it is round. It is like the island had pushed its desert outside.

The results of Corsica-workshop at Oksasenkatu 11.

AVAJAISET/OPENING:
su/sun 25.10. 17.00 ->
viiniä/wine
juustoa/cheese
kapakalaa/dried fish

Kuratointi/Curated by August Ahlqvist

Arkinen hysteria tekee temaattisen katsauksen vuoden 2009 lopun suomalaiseen nykytaiteeseen. Näyttely koettelee tavanomaisuuden rajoja. Arkinen hulluus näyttäytyy teoksissa kierrätysmateriaalien kautta. Eilinen ja huominen kohtaavat, luonto ja luonnottomuus, musta ja valkoinen sekä vakavuus ja huono huumori kulkevat perätysten.

Näyttelyn on koonnut KuM Pasi Rauhala.

Avajaiset 9.9. klo 18-20, Tervetuloa!
Näyttely on auki 10.9. – 27.9.2009

To-Su klo 13-18, Ma-Ke suljettu!

Ilmainen sisäänpääsy!

Lue lisää http://www.pasirauhala.com

[View with PicLens]

Nosotros que hemos mirado con ironia e indulgencia los objectos abigarrados de fin de siglo.

A crude translation: we who have seen with irony and indulgency the motley objects of the end of the century. The word motley refers to the colourful costume of the harlequin character in commedia dell’arte. Motley: exhibiting great diversity of elements; heterogeneous. Who is speaking, and what are these motley objects?

The sentence is written with charcoal on the gallery wall, in the middle of childlike drawings of people, or a nation. Is it the artist, or the nation that is speaking?

Translation always alters the meaning. Or more precisely, the objects themselves are different in different languages. I could not understand what abigarrado meant when the artists translated it as baroque. The word baroque takes me to another century than the one that is at stake here.

Similarly the connotations of motley, the harlequin for example, are not intended by the artists themselves. All the same, the exhibition can be introduced like this because translation comes to be the theme of the show.

The motley objects of the end of the century are different for us here in Finland than the ones for the people of Cuba. Our irony and indulgency are different. Even the nostalgia is different. And contrary to common belief, the visual language of fine arts is fortunately not universal and same for everybody.

Maykel Linares installation El fantasma de la ilustracion translates as The Fantom of Illustration. Aliuska Rodrígues: La Marcha del pueblo combatiente is The March of the Fighting People. The paintings of Niels Reyes are called: La noche en Karelia, Baño de sol, Una conversación para empezar, En la plaza, Jardín de la Infancia. In english: A Night in Karelia, Shower of Sun, A Conversation to Start With, At The Square, and The Garden of Childhood.

Jaakko Karhunen