NEW WORKS 2016–2017 – CHARACTERS WITH THE MAGIC OF THEIR OWN
In summer 2017 the exhibition is open from friday to sunday cl. 1pm-4pm.
Works on show include the large woollen triptych “From Here to Antiquity” (2017), which is a free pastiche of a Finnish painter Hugo Simberg’s The Wounded Angel, plus silkscreen prints and paintings of the same theme.
At Bonga you will also see newly completed wild, small statues made of wool &wood, “Characters” alias “The Barbers of Seville”, also magic glass boxes, “Miniature glasales”, whose colour scales take their synaesthesia from real life, and the Post-Impressionist Les Faunes, Faunit with glass and photomontage.
Some of the techniques used in the works are new, and the message of the exhibition, if we want to look for one, is zest for life amid vulnerability and surviving a decline in mental powers. People are capable of being funny and good, even in an almost lost cause and, apart from the achievements of science, love conquers all: amor vincit omnia.
Bonga Castle is 111 years old this year and has been described as a Gesamtkunstwerk.
During the 30 years that we have been renovating it, the edifice has come to form a unique symphonic entity, whose pieces are gradually beginning to find their place. That entity does indeed produce a variant on itself each spring, but its fundamental mode of being remains a single, coherent whole.
Open for public: From friday to sunday cl. 1pm–4pm, June, July and August.
By appointment throughout the year.
Contacts:
riitta@nelimarkka.com, +358 50 5900 650
jaakko@seeck.fi, +358 500 461 925
www.bonga.fi | www.nelimarkka.com
Linnankuja, 07900 Loviisa, Finland. From church 50 meters to south.
Reservations +358 40 504 2056, bergstrom.kirsti@gmail.com
Office +358 500 461 925, jaakko@seeck.fi
Vanhan ja upea kivilinna Loviisassa (HS kuukausiliite 4.3.2017)
Riitta Nelimarkka rakastaa värejä (Taloustaito 2.3.2017)
"Kummituslinnasta kuoriutui taideteos" (Kotimaassa lehti 1/2017)
Words of wisdom (AEE article 21.3.2016 - www.aaltoee.com)
