12 março 2009

Ilkka Halso

"Restoration and Museum of Nature "
Na continuação da apresentação de fotógrafos da Escola de Helsinkia, já mencionados em posts anteriores, aqui fica a referencia a Ilkka Halso. O seu trabalho de arte na paisagem, site-specific e com uma forte mensagem de preservação ambiental, é explicado pelas suas próprias palavras:

«Museum of Nature is next step in continuum of imaginative nature restoring project, which started year 2000 as Restoration exhibition. Restoration series was about restoring single nature objects in means of technology and building skills. I constructed fictive restoration sites. Scaffoldings are covering objects of nature instead of houses and man-made objects. Trees, boulders, rock faces and fields are under repair. Museum project takes one step further. I make plans and construct visually buildings, which protect nature from treaths of pollution and and what is more important from actions of man himself. (...) While putting nature into a museum you have to take under consideration aspect of audience/ consumer. Nature becomes joyride for turists or beautyfull landscape turns into a meditative theatre show. Project is based on pessimistic vision of what is happening on earth. I am looking into future and I am not very happy about that. I am considering these pictures more as visual pamphlets than estetical images.»

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