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Art Vietnam Gallery congratulates our wonderful Finnish artist Maritta Nurmi on her solo exhibition at the Poriginal Galleria, located inside the Pori Museum in Pori, Finland. The Pori Art Museum has had a gallery space for changing exhibitions since 1984, situated on the shore of the river Kokemäenjoki in an old salt warehouse, at Eteläranta 6, right next to the Art Museum. The building is a Renaissance Revival property built based on drawings signed by the architect F.J. Lindström in 1885.
Maritta Nurmi
Solo exhibition
what is this light
Poriginal Galleria, Pori, Finland
September 7 - 24, 2019
The artist has returned to her homeland from her adopted homeland of 25 years, Vietnam, to present a body of works that reveal the traces of imprints of both cultures.
Taking her inspiration from the words of the poem by the renowned Finnish poet Pentti Saaritsa, what is this light, Nurmi explores the existentialist view of the eternal spirit that resides in all matter, human and organic, and the interconnectivity of all.
The artist states:
One day I was leaning on a pine tree when suddenly I heard the sound (panang-energy) of a woodpecker on the tree top. The ceaseless pecking filled the tree with a boundless energy that then again flowed back into the woodpecker. The energy was flowing and filling the air with its vibration. However as I stepped away from the tree I was full of sorrow for I had lost the feeling of this magical connection.
I created these works as if they were the tree shaking with energy. Using the images of vanishing martyred species such as the Cat Ba langur, the wolf, the pollinator bee, the leopard, is my way of expressing my sorrow for this destruction of nature and its species, the severance of the energy flow.
Last year the artist visited Karelia, Russia, where her mother is from. She made a research on the ancient icons at the Konevitsa monastery on lake Ladoga, in Vyborg and St Petersburg.
In these works she uses some of the icons from that world that have also disappeared mirroring the destruction of these icons and these endangered species, all sharing the same tragic destiny.
For the creation of these works the artist has used stainless steel discs found on the streets of Hanoi that are used for making Xoi - Hanoian sticky rice and has painted on the discs depictions of all these martyrs, expressing her sorrow for the cessation of this magical energy flow.
We want to congratulate the artist for this thought provoking and very timely exhibition as the world struggles with the imbalance of our natural world.
Suzanne Lecht
Art Director
Art Vietnam Salon
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