Sharing the AFoundation is a retrospective of Antti Laitinen's work from the past decade which also includes the artist himself creating a site specific piece, a wooden boat which will eventually set sail. Laitinen was indisposed when I visited so I concentrated on the video records of his earlier pieces. In it's own way, It's My Island, is just as compulsive an expression as Abe's cutting as he constructs a tiny desert island made from sandbags in what looks like the middle of an ocean. His motive seems to be to demonstrate that even though no man is and island, this one man can at least build one.
Laitinen takes us beyond the normal realms of the world into a new reality at once both innocent and yet haunted by the knowledge of our contemporary ecological crisis. He encapsulates an artistic vision that explores the imperfect resolution of the world when faced with the sublime limits of our imagination.
He says of his work: It is more important to struggle for your dreams than succeeding in them. For A Foundation he will build The Bark a boat made from ancient bark collected from the floor of the forest where he lives in Finland.
Antti Laitinen works across idioms of performance, video and photography. His mission across this collection of idioms is to stage mythologies and erase the boundary between success and failure, through a trajectory of personal endurance and almost delusional imagination. Laitinen takes us beyond normality into a new reality at once both innocent and yet haunted by the knowledge of our contemporary ecological crisis. WWW.NETTIEHORN.COM
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Sharing the AFoundation is a retrospective of Antti Laitinen's work from the past decade which also includes the artist himself creating a site specific piece, a wooden boat which will eventually set sail. Laitinen was indisposed when I visited so I concentrated on the video records of his earlier pieces. In it's own way, It's My Island, is just as compulsive an expression as Abe's cutting as he constructs a tiny desert island made from sandbags in what looks like the middle of an ocean. His motive seems to be to demonstrate that even though no man is and island, this one man can at least build one.
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Laitinen takes us beyond the normal realms of the world into a new reality at once both innocent and yet haunted by the knowledge of our contemporary ecological crisis.
He encapsulates an artistic vision that explores the imperfect resolution of the world when faced with the sublime limits of our imagination.
He says of his work: It is more important to struggle for your dreams than succeeding in them. For A Foundation he will build The Bark a boat made from ancient bark collected from the floor of the forest where he lives in Finland.
www.articoweb.it/2010/10/05/sachiko-abe-antti-laitinen/
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Antti Laitinen works across idioms of performance, video and photography. His mission across this collection of idioms is to stage mythologies and erase the boundary between success and failure, through a trajectory of personal endurance and almost delusional imagination. Laitinen takes us beyond normality into a new reality at once both innocent and yet haunted by the knowledge of our contemporary ecological crisis.
WWW.NETTIEHORN.COM
www.artshole.co.uk/news/?mode=5&id=196
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