Matadero Madrid center for contemporary creation
VILLE LENKKERI: VIDAS Y LUGARES
Photography exhibition in Plaza Matadero
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Price
Free entrance.
Venue
Matadero Madrid
Institution
From September 14th to December 16th, 2012
Ville Lenkkeri (1972, Oulu, Finland) is one of the most well-known representatives of the school known as the Helsinki School, founded at the University of Aalto. His work has caught everyone's attention and brought the contemporary Finnish photography scene to the forefront. “If the power of Finnish photography lies in bringing together in just one image irony, haute-artisanry, humor and commentary on the media, then one of its biggest talents has come to life in Ville Lenkkeri”, writes Photo International. For the series called The Place of no Roads, featured here, Lenkkeri made a number of trips to two Russian towns in Spitzbergen. For him, these abandoned mining towns were “not so much a depressing scar on the Artic landscape as happy and just places, with a common welfare where competitive hierarchies had been abolished in favor of equality”. The trip ended up becoming “a personal quest to find alternative ways of living”, the place, “a utopia, at least in having failed in its survival”. As far as Civil Courage, which comprises the final part of the exhibition, it shows a series of fictitious stories about people who deal with the unknown, whether it be mentally or physically. The images, despite being works of ficiton, approach the level of documentary photography.
Días Nórdicos (Nordic Days) is the first interdisciplinary festival held in Spain and devoted entirely to the cultural scene in Nordic countries. an annual event, its first edition was held in 2010, and it has become a must-see for the artistic work of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Días Nórdicos is an offering inovative in both format and concept, and is an annual meeting for alternative, innovative and original movements on the Nordic scene, covering different musical genres and cultural activities.
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Ville Lenkkeri (1972, Oulu, Finland) is one of the most well-known representatives of the school known as the Helsinki School, founded at the University of Aalto. His work has caught everyone's attention and brought the contemporary Finnish photography scene to the forefront. “If the power of Finnish photography lies in bringing together in just one image irony, haute-artisanry, humor and commentary on the media, then one of its biggest talents has come to life in Ville Lenkkeri”, writes Photo International. For the series called The Place of no Roads, featured here, Lenkkeri made a number of trips to two Russian towns in Spitzbergen. For him, these abandoned mining towns were “not so much a depressing scar on the Artic landscape as happy and just places, with a common welfare where competitive hierarchies had been abolished in favor of equality”. The trip ended up becoming “a personal quest to find alternative ways of living”, the place, “a utopia, at least in having failed in its survival”. As far as Civil Courage, which comprises the final part of the exhibition, it shows a series of fictitious stories about people who deal with the unknown, whether it be mentally or physically. The images, despite being works of ficiton, approach the level of documentary photography.
Días Nórdicos (Nordic Days) is the first interdisciplinary festival held in Spain and devoted entirely to the cultural scene in Nordic countries. an annual event, its first edition was held in 2010, and it has become a must-see for the artistic work of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Días Nórdicos is an offering inovative in both format and concept, and is an annual meeting for alternative, innovative and original movements on the Nordic scene, covering different musical genres and cultural activities.
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