XXIV Mänttä Art Festival and Minttu 17

Leevi, Emma and I had our annual trip to the Mänttä Art Festival.  The theme for the XXIV Mänttä Art Festival is The Human Era. With more than 50 artists, the exhibition discusses what happens when humans control the land and natural resources.

One of my favourites were Elina Ruohonen's oil paintings on transparent plexiglass base. I have been on her plexiglass painting course years ago!

We also visited the Art Museum Gösta. Matthew Day Jackson’s exhibition Maa imagines a post-apocalyptic world a thousand years in the future, made uninhabitable by humankind flourishing new kind of life. The human survivors who have been subterranean refugees for a thousand years are sending scouts to explore the devastated surface that is only known to them through myth and storytelling. 

In Gösta there were also two other exhibitions: 

Distant cool shadow - A Small Exhibition of Colour, exhibition that evokes colour-related perceptions and experiences. 

Olli and Bucklan - The Life and Art of the Ehrströms. The artist couple Eric O. W. Ehrström (1881–1934) and Olga Gummerus-Ehrström (1876–1938) are little-known figures in Finnish art history. Olga (Olli) was a talented portrait painter who also designed and implemented stained glass paintings, textiles and other ornamental art works in collaboration with her husband. Eric (Bucklan) was a well-known and respected artist and industrial designer who completed his most important work for the architectural firm Gesellius, Lindgren, Saarinen.

In the afternoon we celebrated our goddaughter Minttu's 17th birthday.


+19°C, cloudy and rainy