In The Museum

At last.
We haven't been in any museum after the start of the corona pandemic. In three years! I saw the introduction of this exhibition of the Finnish artist Viggo Wallensköld's paintings already at the turn of the year, and we then planned to see it before it's gone. We just managed to do it, three days left now.

Here's a translation of the exhibition introduction above in the Helsinki Art Museum:
"Viggo Wallensköld (b. 1969) creates artworks that explores physical diversity and differences between people. The figures in his paintings are hybrids with features that are borrowed from adults, children, men or women or machines as well as crippled, the stanted, the thin or very large, from both the past and present. There is something familiar and very human about his fictitious characters yet something extraordinary as well. The unique and occasionally mournful figures are treated by the artist with compassion and dignity."

It was great, very impressive, arresting. Also very interesting from our point of view, for whom diversity is more than familiar. Me, different, found the mental quality of the artist's quite similar to mine. He had got the impression of dignity into his works unbelievably well, the figures gave no impression of pity, but of great strength. That's the impression every different or diverse person wants to give to others.

But, I have to say that because in a couple of paintings there was a short-statured person, one of them naked, I felt myself a bit undressed when wandering there among  other visitors surely seeing me as people naturally do everywhere I go. However, I can live with the feeling and have done it quite long already. 

When coming home by taxi I took a photo through the window of a lovely wintery view of Töölönlahti bay near Helsinki center (Extra).

Summa summarum, excellent exhibition selection from us, a great day.