A Monument Which Needs a Shape, Which Needs a Story, Which Needs a Text, Which Needs Letters, 2010
   
     
W
Wood, paint
261 x 175 x 97 cm
VW
Wood, plexiglass, spray-paint
128 x 205,5 x 98,5 cm
 
   
Throughout the two gallery spaces and in between a red and a blue light, Aarnivaara arranges a sequence of sculptures, images, texts and collages – elements that could be seen as parts of an inquiry into the textual, material, mythical and temporal aspects of a monument.
A meandering thought process starts which leaves traces, which ends up in an ideological form, which progresses, which entrenches, which seeks openings in shapes and stories, which moves into a dead-end. A thought of a Monument which needs to move within what forms and materials that is available or remains still. A thought moving through this and that, now and then, yes and no, blue and red, establishing similarity and community through its need for a shape – which needs a story, which needs a text, which needs letters.

     
     
Västra Strömonumentet A.D. 900, 2010
Plexiglass, laserprint on paper
40 x 50 cm
Treptower Park 1949, 2010
Digital print in polyester pocket
32 x 43 cm
V, W, VW…, 2010
Spray-paint, paper
53,5 x 42 cm
Flags, 2010
Inkjet prints, ink, watercolour, paper
41,7 x 58,9 cm
Dead-ends, 2010
Inkjet print on yellow paper, photos, cardboard, pencil
65 x 50 cm (each), overall 65 x 104 cm
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Patrik Aarnivaara
Selected Works
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2010
A Slightly Different Time
A Monument Which Needs a Shape, Which Needs a Story, Which Needs a Text, Which Needs Letters
2009
An “A” Surrounded by a Circle
Points of View
Synrand
2008
The Architect and the Artist
This and That, Now and Then But Not In Between
Tripartite
2007
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Formation
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CV
Writings
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Contact:
Patrik Aarnivaara
patrik[at]aarnivaara.com

Gallery Charlotte Lund
info[at]gallericharlottelund.com

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