Vapaakaupungin galleria: Mimi McPartlan, Victor X ja 3.10

Name: Vapaakaupungin galleria: Mimi McPartlan, Victor X ja 3.10
Start: 2025-02-02T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-02-02T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Kalasataman Vapaakaupunki

Schedule

Sun Feb 02 2025 at 10:00 am to 07:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Kalasataman Vapaakaupunki | Helsinki, ES

UUSI NÄYTTELYVUOSI ALKAA VAPAAKAUPUNGISSA!🤍
Vapaakaupungin galleria 9.1.-2.2.2025:
Mimi McPartlan, Victor X ja 3.10
Tervetuloa juhlistamaan avajaisia torstaina 9.1. klo 17-19!🌼
Löydät Vapaakaupungin Olohuoneen Redin toisesta kerroksesta.
Welcome to the vernissage on Thursday 9.1. 5pm-7pm! 🌼
You can find Vapaakaupunki from the 2nd floor of Redi.

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■ Mimi McPartlan: Strands (Signs of Life III)
I am enamored with the sea, from the perspective of the strand, at bay, lured forward. There’s a coming and going, in the perpetual pushing and pulling, the surface a conduit for travel, an expanse afloat, a sloshing plane.
The basic devices of seafaring work in collaboration with the properties of the sea - for communication, fastening, floating. A bell tolls clear over water, knots are used for tension and security, wood is bent for form and floating. They are simple but effective, resisting the elements and working with them.
What makes utility beautiful? The essence of the need? The form of the purpose? The implied action, the response, the instilled function?
In the wide expanse of the sea, there are signs of navigation, finding a way, being guided, getting lost. Strands’ compositions of buoys and weights hang in the balance: both precarious and steady, knotted on gravity. The bell tolls for the land, for time, for life.
The Signs of Life series of works is cyclical, each is a reworking of an idea within the same elements. The materials take the form of the space - they fill it, measure it, occupy an expanse in rhythm and line. The ceramic pieces are recomposed for a third time in a practice of space-making. Each form is inspired by the necessity of buoyancy or weight within the sea - for survival, navigation, and communication. The space formed is meant to hold and encapsulate the bell like a vessel. Like a shell, it becomes a world within a world. A bubble, an oasis, a refuge within the
public sphere.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
As a ceramic artist I rely heavily on my training in craft and education of design thinking. Clay is an accessible material to anyone, but ceramics demands material knowledge and a kind of reverence for history. Conceptually, these coincide in concepts of the touched and tinkered, the worked and solved, and of doing and planning. In its most basic form, ceramics is essential for storing liquids and in its most frivolous as a limitless material for decoration. But essentially, it is an archival material which has held the activities and dreams of human civilization.
I am struck by urboir (an urban terroir), remnants of play, authorship, and care of expression and utility. The idealized experiences or forms I tend and nurture are a reflection of what I find essential and intangible. I question how I can intimately share this haptic something, the ghost of a feeling through compositions, objects, and materials. In my search for material minimalism and simple serendipity, shadows are as important as the physical works, as the ultimate something from nothing, an expression of the weight of something seemingly invisible.
Instagram: @miiiiiiiimi
http://www.mimimcp.com

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■ Victor X: Unspoken Prophecy
In the past years, we have been witnessing dramatic events happening all over the world. Sudden changes and uncertainty are frightening. We wish we could foresee the future and prepare ourselves for the new world coming. But how?
First, don’t concentrate on things which are out of control. Time and energy would be wasted since we can’t change such matters.
Second, if we can change something and make the world better, we should. Third, at very least we can try to change ourselves. Our future depends on how we see the world and our roles in this world. What we expect to achieve, and why we think it’s possible.
What we see in the works of abstract art presented here tells something about the viewer, doesn’t it? Hint: think of Hermann Rorschach and his famous inkblots. We hope you find the exhibition interesting and possibly somewhat useful.
P.S. We are trying to be optimistic. The main piece exhibited here is a six-letters word ХОРОШО (khorosho) which means good, well, fine. It’s not a promise. It’s a wish.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT:
“The lesson I learned from my early design work is that clarity and accessibility – which are mandatory in advertising media – must likewise be present in all forms of visual art. At the same time I think that paintings benefit from carrying a taste of the unreal. It’s this very fact – that they form a counterbalance to our everyday routines and the more functional images we are surrounded by – that gives them special meaning and power.”
Contact information:
Viktor Khachtchanski
[email protected]
Website: http://victorx.eu
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorxarteu

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■ 3.10: Muistan siitä vähän
Kokoelma uusia & vanhempia teoksia
TAITEILIJASTA:
3.10 on turkulainen, taiteen alalla kouluttautumaton, omaehtoisen taiteen tekijä. Teosten materiaaleina ovat pääsääntöisesti löytö- , ylijäämä- sekä kierrätystavara enemmän tai vähemmän muokattuna. Inspiraatio teoksiin löytyy arkkitehtuurista, musiikista ja luonnosta.
Instagram: @elama_3.10

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