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Οι εγκαταστάσεις του Vesala συνδυάζουν γλυπτική, κινούμενη εικόνα, φως και ήχο σε ένα υποβλητικό αποτέλεσμα, συχνά μάλιστα περιλαμβάνουν την ανθρώπινη φιγούρα. Στόχος του Vesala είναι να προκαλέσει ερωτήματα σχετικά με τη μοναχική ανθρώπινη συμπεριφορά μέσα από λεπτές χειρονομίες και ντελικάτη ατμόσφαιρα. Εμάς, τους θεατές, μας προσελκύει η περιρρέουσα ατμόσφαιρα ενός αξιοσημείωτου γεγονότος που έχει συμβεί ή πρόκειται να συμβεί και κρύβεται στη σκιά της ηρεμίας. Ο θεατής παραμένει στον ρόλο τού μάρτυρα και αφήνεται να αναλογιστεί τις περιστάσεις και το περιβάλλον όσων εμπλέκονται άμεσα και έμμεσα στα έργα. Η αίσθηση του μυστηρίου ακολουθεί τον θεατή ακόμα και μετά την αναχώρησή του. Το αίσθημα της μοναξιάς είναι ένα από τα βασικά θέματα που προσεγγίζει ο καλλιτέχνης. Οι χαρακτήρες των έργων κοιτούν τόσο στον εσωτερικό όσο και τον εξωτερικό τους κόσμο, ωστόσο κλείνονται πάντα στον εαυτό τους. Ο θεατής αναγνωρίζει τα φυσικά εμπόδια του ανθρώπου, εμπόδια μεταξύ του εσωτερικού και του εξωτερικού κόσμου, και συνειδητοποιεί τα όρια που υπάρχουν μεταξύ τους. Ο Jarno Vesala είναι σύγχρονος φινλανδός καλλιτέχνης. Γεννήθηκε στη Ράουμα της Φινλανδίας το 1977 και σήμερα ζει και εργάζεται στη Νόκια. Το 2004 ολοκλήρωσε τις καλλιτεχνικές του σπουδές στο Τμήμα Τέχνης και Επικοινωνίας του Πανεπιστημίου Εφαρμοσμένων Επιστημών του Τάμπερε. Δουλειά του παρουσιάστηκε για πρώτη φορά στο Τάμπερε το 2003. Έργα του παρουσιάστηκαν επίσης στα φεστιβάλ τέχνης το 2008 και το 2018 στη πόλη Μάνττα, στην Kluuvi gallery το 2009, στην Πίρκανμάα το 2009 και το 2012, στο Μουσείο Τέχνης του Ελσίνκι το 2011 και στο Forum Box το 2012. Το 2013 ανακηρύχθηκε Νέος Φινλανδός Καλλιτέχνης της χρονιάς. Το 2014 τιμήθηκε με το Βραβείο Turku Biennale Prize μαζί με τον Krister Gråhn. Έργα του έχουν παρουσιαστεί επίσης σε πολλές εκθέσεις σε διεθνές επίπεδο, συμπεριλαμβανομένου του «Out of our heads» που επιμελήθηκε ο James Putnam και η Βασιλική Τζανακού το 2014. Ακολούθησε η ατομική έκθεση 'Being There' στο Anima-Mundi το 2016 και το φεστιβάλ Nordic Delights στο Soho του Λονδίνου το 2018. Επιμέλεια: Sebastian Boulter Εγκαίνια: Τρίτη, 20 Νοεμβρίου, 20:00 Διάρκεια: 21.11 - 8.12.2018 Ώρες λειτουργίας: Τρίτη - Παρασκευή 17:00 - 21:00, Σάββατο 13:00 - 16:00
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Vesala’s multi sensory installations combine sculpture, moving image, light and sound to powerful evocative effect. The works often include a human figure. Vesala’s aim is to provoke questions regarding solitary human behavior achieved through subtle gesture and delicate ambience. We, the viewers, are drawn in to the contained atmosphere, where a profound sense that something notable has or is about to happen lurks within the palpable weight of stillness. We remain in the role of witness, left to ponder the hints to the circumstances surrounding those who are both directly and indirectly present within the works. A truly haunting sense of mystery persists (long after leaving). This feeling of isolation is one of the key themes approached by the artist. The characters in the works face away or inwards preoccupied and belonging to an inner world of their own. We become profoundly aware of the barriers that our bodies provide, barriers between the inner and outer worlds and profoundly aware of the barriers that exist between each other. Jarno Vesala is a Finnish contemporary artist born in Rauma in 1977. He currently lives and works in Nokia, Finland. Vesala graduated as a visual artist at the Tampere University of Applied Sciences' degree program in arts and communication in 2004. He has first exhibited in Tampere in 2003. Vesala's works have been featured in Mänttä's art festivals 2008 and 2018, Kluuvi gallery 2009, Pirkanmaa triennial 2009 and 2012, Helsinki Art Museum 2011 and Forum Box 2012. He was selected as the Finnish Young Artist of the Year in 2013. In 2014, Vesala won the Turku Biennale Prize with his work with Krister Gråhn. In addition Vesala has featured in numerous exhibitions internationally including 'Out of Our Heads' curated by James Putnam and Vassiliki Tzanakou in 2014, his debut solo exhibition ‘Being There’ at Anima-Mundi in 2016 and the Nordic Delights festival in Soho, London in 2018. Curated by: Sebastian Boulter Opening: Tuesday, November 20, 20:00 Duration: 21.11 - 8.12.2018 Visiting hours: Tuesday - Friday 17:00 - 21:00, Saturday 13:00 - 16:00
In time for the Jarno Vesala's (JV) upcoming exhibition at Cheap Art in Athens we publish this interview by the curator Sebastian Boulter (SB).  SB:Human being seems to be the basis in almost all of your works. As a sculptor and a video artist you often deal with situations when a person is by him/her self. With installations you create an environment for them and with lights and sounds a certain kind of mood. Who are those people and what is their destiny? JV: The starting point of my works is always a human being and his/her activities. Human being is always by him/herself. My works often have one character (a protagonist), and viewers are the "other" people. Characters in my works are people around me, familiar and unknown. I need a strong experience of a human to be able to handle it in my work. Many of my works include news of human destiny. Into these stories I might have added features of familiar people and environments. I try to create a strong scene in the work. I wish this to be completed by the viewer's own memories and experiences. Through these memories and experiences, the viewer builds his story for the characters of my works. SB: The environments are often casual, but a bit frightening or pensive. What everyday life means to you? JV: Casual elements are for example a light, a chair to sit on or food, to eat it. Everyday activities, such walking and sleeping, are done by both, the rich and the poor. I often use such everyday elements in the works, that touch most of the people on earth. For me the everyday life is repetitive, a recurrence of certain kinds of things. It can also be persistent and in a certain way safe. I am interested in making casual and staged moments in my work. They can be about waiting for an elevator or watching a TV. When in such s kind of activity noting changes, it can become frightening. At such moment, life and death are built simultaneously. When a viewer looks at such a stalled activity, it creates an observation of everyday life. I want the viewer to question our day-to-day activities or just stop at a beautiful, casual moment. With a help of these simple functions, it creates an important link between the viewer and the work. It creates a common scene or relationship between them. The everyday elements in my works can also be indicative. With these small or big elements, it can create an action or an event where the viewer participates the work consciously or unconsciously. When some kind of relationship has come into being between the character and the viewer, the everyday activity provided by the character becomes subordinate. SB: Atmospheres created by lights and sounds often refer to dim and darkness or singing, lamentation and silence. How important in your works are the relationships between light and darkness, or the tone and silence? JV: All of these are very important elements. I work mainly in low light and in the early stages of my work, it must also be completely silent. I start to build a work by adding elements slowly to the darkness and/or taking them away. My works consist of these small residual elements. The sounds and the lights create a rhythm to the work. They also give the work a duration and a cycle. I did not want to put talk on my work. I also try to leave out the relevance of language. SB: You have made a new work for this exhibition in Cheapart gallery. Has the space of gallery affected the content of the work? JV: The new work mainly binds the other works of the exhibition together to an ensemble. The character in the work is in a certain way in the space between the other works. SB: In an unfinished book for young artists, Dürer cautions that too much exertion may lead one to "fall under the hand of melancholy". Are your works about the melancholy or have you experienced melancholy because of over exertion? JV: I always feel melancholy after intense work. After the completion of my work appears un leisurely and stagnation. Then I often wait horrified, what will happen this time. Yes, I have a lot of melancholy of waiting and longing in my works, but I often see there humour as well. SB: Some sociologists argue that, motivated by capitalism and industrialism’s degrading effects on human existence and perception, writers and artists of the 19th century turned more towards self-reflection. Therefore, the portrayal of everyday life was represented in their writings and art to a noticeably greater degree than in past works. Is there self-reflection in your art in relation to everyday life? JV: In contemporary art of the 21st century, self-reflection is not very sexy, but I do so. And I do also consider it very important and interesting But the most important thing is how to bring it up as an artist and what you want to tell to the viewer. The Video Installation Exhibition 'My Turn' by Jarno Vesala is curated by Sebastian Boulter and opens on Tuesday, 20th November 2018 at 20:00 and runs until 8 december 2018.
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