Ars Fennica 2010, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, 8 October – 12 December 2010
Anne Koskinen’s works combine conceptual art with handicraft. The starting points for her sculptures, paintings or installations, made using multiple media and with technical virtuosity, are personal ones, taken from her own life situations. The personal constitutes the context, although viewers will not necessarily recognize this.
In her works Koskinen has called into question the modern way of living, along with the concepts of authenticity and originality linked with modernism, while also pondering her own identity.
Factors linked with identity include her family and her relationship with her father, something that was never to be.
Marja-Terttu Kivirinta
Literature:
Kivirinta, Marja-Terttu 2010. ”Anne Koskinen. In my own hand”. ARS FENNICA 2010 red. Kirsti Karvonen, Timo Valjakka & Eeva Wuori. Helsinki: Henna ja Pertti Niemistö Art Foundation Ars Fennica. s. 12-19.
Works on show:
- Reflection #4 (Venice), 2009-2010, oil on photo paper and photography, 45 × 58 cm framed
- The Other Girl (Anders Zorn, Bathing Girls, Outdoors, 1890), 2010, oil on post card, 22,5 × 27 cm framed
- The Other Woman (Gunnar Berndtson, Summer, 1893), 2010, oil on post card, 27 × 22,5 cm framed
- The Other Bride (Gunnar Berndtson, The Bride’s Song, 1881), 2010, oil on post card, 22,5×25 cm, framed
- The Other Mother (Albert Edelfelt, In the Nursery, 1885), 2010, oil on postcard, 22,5 × 27 cm
- The Other Woman (Claude Monet, Le déjeuner, 1868), 2010, oil on post card, 27 × 22,5 cm framed
- A Matter of Time, 2010, water colour on photo paper and photography, 2 parts each 85 × 165 cm framed, and certificate 23 × 33 cm framed
- Reflection #6 (Berliner Dom), 2009-2010, oil on photo paper and photography, 68,5 × 50cm framed
- Reflection #7 (Berlin), 2009-2010, oil on photo paper and photography, 54 × 83cm
- The Other Boy (Albert Edelfelt, Boys Playing, 1884), 2010, oil on post card, 24 × 29,5 cm framed
- ”You don’t know me, but you may have heard my name”, my half-sister wrote, 2010, water colour on photo paper and photograph, each 58 × 44 cm framed
- A Matter of Vision, 2010, marble , 4 parts, each 60 × 50 × 2 cm
- Katarina as a Sculpture, 2010, gold on paper, 80 × 60,5 cm framed, 10 g gold used for drawing, 33 × 24 cm framed