Hot Art

Column by Elise Gegauff

If you haven’t read my column up till now, this is the time to start!


I have always loved Galleria Dix. In fact, it was the gallery that I was visiting when I found a flyer about HIAA hanging on their info board before I became a member.
Anyway, I was taking a walk today and decided to take a look in Galleria Dix because I think they always have interesting exhibitions. I’m very happy I went there today.

I just saw something extreemely colourful when I came in the door, and to my delight it was an exhibition of some of Charles Fazzino’s 3-D Pop Art.
His art is very colourful and can be taken as a bit naïve. His messages are not however, eventhough many of his pictures are also just pure fun. They have a lot of small details and you feel like you discover something new everytime you look at them.
He mainly draws subjects from the U.S.A., and especially New York and Hollywood, but there is even pictures that he have made from Finland there! There was one called ”Helsinki” that was already bought, and a little one called ”Midnight Sun Sauna”.
His art is filled with humour and he is often critizicing the world and especially the U.S.A.
The artworks are for sale of course, and the prices can be anything from 375 Euros up to 4950 Euros.

Just to tell you a littlebit about Charles Fazzino;
He is one of the most popular 3-D aritst in the world today, having sold artwork to celebrities and polititians such as: Michael Jackson, Rosie O’Donnell, Michael Eisner, Hillary Clinton, Paul Mc.Cartney, Morgan Freeman, Tina Turner, Roger Clemens, Julia Roberts and Presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush.
There are over 600 galleries in 25 countries who are exhibiting his work and he has gathered a loyal fanbase over the years, especially in U.S.A., Europe and Asia.

Charles Fazzino graduated from the New York School of Visual Arts. He has over 30 one-man exhibitions and shows annually and he finds the time to create twenty to thirty new pieces of art every year.
Fazzino has also created tributes to Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, The characters of Walt Disney and Looney Toons. Organizations such as The Grammy Awards, National Football League, Japan’s Mt. Fuji Museum and The United States Tennis Association Foundation has also commissioned Fazzino’s work.

If you would like to see this exhibition (and I really recommend it) the adress is:

GALLERIA DIX
Uudenmaankatu 19
00120 Helsinki
Tel.: 09-603661
Info@galleriadix.fi

www.galleriadix.fi

The opening times are:

Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: 11-17
Wednesday: 11-18
Saturday and Sunday: 12-16

If you want to take a look at Charles Fazzino’s art before you go to Galleria Dix, you can do so at:
www.fazzino.com

Everybody! Please hurry, the exhibition ends on Sunday the 2nd of september and you don’t want to miss it!

-Elise Gegauff

The Fourth Meeting

Dear Artists,



Our fourth meeting was pestered by the sudden heat wave, but none the less, some good ideas came up among the few of us who enjoyed the airconditioned library room.

The founding meeting

It was agreed that the founding meeting should take place in the middle of September. The board members will be elected at that meeting and everybody present can also sign up as a founding member. Before the meeting I will e-mail you a suggestion for the rules of the association to gather everybody's comments. This meeting will agree on the rules. I will send you all an invitation to the founding meeting closer to the date, but all those who are interested in beeing in the board and who have not yet told me so, please let me know beforehand.

The website

One issue that rose at meeting was HIAA's website. When the association is registered and we'll decide on the membership fee, we can also build up a real website. To this I would welcome everybody's suggestions of what it should include - members' gallery, discussion forum, exhibition information, the column, other things?

The logo

Another thing we need is a logo for the association. I suggest this will be an open election - send in your suggestions for a logo and we'll organise an election where everybody can vote!

The group exhibition

In order to have our first real group exhibition next year - we should move pretty soon. Some places suggested are:

Galleria Rantakasarmi (Suomenlinna): space 342 sq meters, exhibition period 4/5 weeks, cost 3200 euros.

Cultural center Caisa Galleria, space ?, exhibition period 4 weeks, cost 700 euros.

Kanneltalo Galleria, space 144 sq meters, exhibition period open, cost 21,50 euros/day

Stoa Galleria, space 104 + 50,5 sq meters, exhibition period open, cost 21,50 euros/day

Of these, more expensive ones do the sales, others don't. Many places want to have applications about six months ahead of the exhibition time (at least).

What is an acceptable cost for the exhibition? Are you ready to pay 10, 50 or maybe 100 euros to participate in a group exhibition? Does the place have to do sales?

What other exhibition places do you know that would suit a group exhibition of about 10 people? I think this number could be realistic and also preferable for a HIAA exhibition.

Could there be a possibility to join a larger event, like "Maailma kylässä", and be a part of that? Do you know any event organisers? What kind of festivals or happenings could be suitable to an exhibition by HIAA artists?

The theme

What about the theme? There's been some suggestions like: "Home", "What is Normal ?"(definition changing over time and place), "Festival" or "Party" etc.

Here the latest from the meeting and now, enjoy the sunny days of August!

Susan

Hot Art

Column by Elise Gegauff

Albert Edelfelt



This time I decided to talk a bit about my favourite finnish painter; Albert Edelfelt.
Most of you probably already know who he is, but for those of you who don’t, he is truly an artist worth your time.
He was a realist painter who captured life in such a detailed way, and in my opinion he is one of the best painters who has ever lived.

Albert Edelfelt was born in Porvoo, Finland, and his father Carl Albert Edelfelt was an architect.
He was interested in drawing and painting from he was very young, and in 1873 when he was 19 years old he went to Antwerpen to study history painting.
After that, he went to Paris to continue his art studies, and it was there that he became the first finnish painted to achieve international fame.
In 1877 in Paris he painted one of his most famous works ”Blanche de Namur, reine de Suede et le prince Haquin” (”Queen Bianca”) and in 1880 he got a medal for the painting ”Conveying the Child’s Coffin”.

He married Ellan de la Chapelle in 1888 and they got their only child; Erik the same year.
They moved back to Helsinki in 1891 and four years later he became the mayor of the Finnish Art Association.
He died 18. august 1905.

If you want to see his art you should visit Ateneum, they have a huge collection of his work. You can also find lots of books about him in their shop, or also, you can just go to Stockmann. There are great books in english as well.

www.ateneum.fi


-Elise Gegauff