Ascension Day

Our Art Studies group had a day trip to Mänttä today. We traveled by Serlachius-bus and visited Gustaf and Gösta Art Museums and visited our teacher Riikka Lenkkeri's art studio. In Mänttä we had Serlachius bikes, it's 3 kilometres ride between those two museums.

In the picture is a detail of Esther Shalev-Gerz's work Potential Trust. You can see the whole installation via this link.

Potential  Trust confronts the complexity of duality, potentiality and actualisation. On either side of a yellow line, two hammers perpetuate, in alternation, the identical mechanical movement of nailing and un-nailing the same nail. This neon installation is an invitation to meditate on the perpetual movement of constructing and deconstructing, doing and undoing and proposes that we consider similarity rather than difference, the movement between ourselves and the other, and the cycles of the potentiality of trust.

Shalev-Gerz's works were presented in Gustaf. In Gösta we explored two exhibitions: Summer Days and Meadows and Wilderness.


Mauno Koivisto, the ninth president of independent Finland, was buried today. He died at the age of 93. Koivisto took over as president in 1982 after Urho Kekkonen had held the office for 26 years. His two terms in office, ending in 1994, saw upheaval in Finland’s foreign and domestic policies with the collapse of the Soviet Union and Finland applying to join the European Union. It has been said that President Koivisto is one of the reasons why Finland, on its centenary, is the world’s most stable nation.

In his last interview in 2013 with Helsingin Sanomat newspaper, asked what was important in life, Koivisto said:


"In life, it is generally wise to trust that everything will go well. It often pays off, even if you wouldn't even believe in it. Many times, threats start to realise just because they have been prepared for."


http://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/father_of_finlands_second_republic_mauno_koivistos_last_journey/9632595



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