Exhibitions

Summer 2009 at Didrichsen Art Museum

9.5. - 30.8.2009 Tue - Sun 11 - 17

The Summer Exhibition consists of two entities:

• Osvald Sirén and the Chinese Gardens
• Helene Schjerfbeck and the European Masters

Exhibition:

Osvald Sirén and the Chinese Gardens

• Osvald Sirén's photos of Chinese gardens from the 1920s
• Johan Sellen's colour photos of the same places from 2007
• The Didrichsen Art Museum's Sirén Collection of ancient Chinese objects
  
  Professor Osvald Sirén (1879-1966) was a Finnish-born sinologist of international repute. During his expeditions to China in the 1920s and the 1930s he amassed a collection of paintings and sculptures and took a large number of photographs of Chinese gardens. At the end of his long career in Sweden, he expressed the wish that part of his collection would find its way back to Finland, which is  how the more than thirty works in the exhibition were acquired by the Didrichsens in the 1960s.
  
  

  

   

Helene Schjerfbeck and the European Masters

• Helen Schjerfbeck's (1862-1946) most loved works from the Didrichsen Art Museum's collection
• Self-portrait with black mouth and one of her last self-portraits
• Still lifes, landscapes and portraits: Shadow on the wall, Californian lady, and the double-sided Still-life / Granny
  
  

  

  
  The exhibition also presents works of leading European artist acquired by Marie-Loise and Gunnar Didrichsen, among them paintings by Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Wassily Kandinsky and Fernand Léger. The definition 'European' is considered in the broadest sense and includes those artists who left their native lands to work elsewhere, like the Russian-American Mark Rothko. In art "master" is often a synonym for famous and popular, but the exhibition also includes works by lesser known artists - the question of "masterliness" is thus deliberately left for the visitor to decide. 

Events:

Bike Tour To New Media Art on 29th and 30th August

On the last weekend of August hop on your bike and be ready to experience contemporary video and performance art as well as animations, electronic music and dance performances in six different environments.

Tickets for the tour available at The Finnish Museum of Photography on both days at 11.00 am.  Admission 15 €/day includes all the performances. You are also welcome to view the current exhibitions at each museum for the same price.

More information:

http://paapyoralle.fi/?p=233