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| Anu Kiiskinen |
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Artist, landscape architect
Born: 15.3.1964 in Lahti, Finland
Works and lives in Helsinki, Finland
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Anu Kiiskinen works combining sculpture, environmental art and landscape architecture
"Anu Kiiskinen is one of the young artists primarily concerned, in the matter of sculpture, with formation of meaning, of content, as a result of the interaction between environment and artwork. Rather than the aesthetic qualities of an ‘autonomous object’, it is communicative, functional and social aspects that become important. Kiiskinen has worked as an artist together with landscape-designers, architects and scenic designers, to mention a few examples, in projects of planning and realizing artworks for public spaces, parks, or for a landscape.
Typical for the site-specific artwork is that it cannot be reduced to, or explained in terms simply of the object made by the artist. Rather, it can be seen as an intervention by the artist that relates to, often comments directly upon, or else changes, the already existing structures of the site. It is generally concerned with the people, local inhabitants, history and architecture of the place. The urban, socially interactive public art of today can just as well be a matter of rearranging, or even of reducing, as a matter of adding something, to the site. Marking out the space, giving it definition through the "monument", can be exchanged for by taking away, or ‘opening up’ space."
Nina Björkman, 2000 |
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Dew
2007 |
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The project combines a complete renovation with an artistic redesign of the courtyard. The original idea was for an outdoor work that acts as an element that integrates the old section with the new one. It was hoped that this would be a spatial work that took into account the sheltered setting, rather than a traditional piece of art. Another aim was to turn an unusable mound in the yard into an inviting spot to spend time. Overall there was an emphasis on functionality and lack of obstruction, plus interactiveness, multisensoriness and a stimulating effect.
The work was designed by the Helsinki sculptor Anu Kiiskinen (b. 1964), who was chosen partly because of her experience of environmental projects and familiarity with landscape architecture. Kiiskinen represents a new approach to public art, and the Levänen courtyard scheme is a good example of this. Instead of making an art object, the artist influences the whole environment, its structures and its organisation.
Kiiskinen has designed both the courtyard's landscaping and its artistic elements. The work is made up of plants and pathways edged by a stone wall and metal fencing. The plants are perennial, safe, and long-flowering summer varieties that go well in the old courtyard. The artistic elements are the brass leaf themes in the wall and the lady's-mantle flower sculpture, which gathers rainwater.
Commissioned by the City of Kuopio
Photos: Kuopio Art Museum/ Hannu Miettinen |
Dew, detail
2007 |
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Dew, detail
2007 |
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Dew, detail
2007 |
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Mustankiven puisto Park
1992-96 |
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Mustankiven puisto (Black Stone Park) has been made on the site of a former quarry in Helsinki's Vuosaari. Anu Kiiskinen's landscape work, ”Elo”, modelled out of earth and stone, snakes through the park. The materials used for this landscaping are earth and local black stone, both crushed and in large blocks.
Kiiskinen's steel sculpture ”Eilen tänään huomenna ” (Yesterday today tomorrow) was created alongside the plan for the park and was already set up in a small open area on the park's west side a few years before the completion of the park itself. The sculpture is sited by the park's western entrance, beside a playpark, and along with the landscape work, naturally links into Vuosaari's marine setting. The material of the sculpture is 2x3-metre blowtorch-cut Corten steel sheeting.
Commissioned by Helsinki City Art Museum |
Mustankiven puisto Park, detail
1992-96 |
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Mustankiven puisto Park, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
1992-96 |
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The Room
2000 |
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This two-part work made jointly with Jean-Pierre Charriér was made in Helsinki and Avignon and produced by the year 2000 Transplant/HEART project. The component parts of the work were illuminated spaces and reflecting surfaces. The mobile lightwork was built using prisms and reflecting surfaces in Helsinki's Sinebrychoff Park tower (shown here) and in the exhibition space at the Hospice St-Louise in Avignon. |
The Family
2001 |
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The works was created for
"Eternal Return", Summer Exhibition by the Association of Finnish Sculptors in the
Korkeasaari Zoo, Helsinki
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Nocturnal
1999 |
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The environmental work "Nocturnal" came about as part of the plan for the Arabianmäki Park in Helsinki at the end of the 1990s. The work's grey-steel pillars are joined together by metal structures attached to their upper sections. The pillars also serve as lights, are 7.5 metres tall, and are grouped around a paved square. The work serves as a meditative element situated between the Arabia factory building and the industrial arts centre, and between the park and the wooden buildings on the other side of Hämeentie Road.
Commissioned by Helsinki City Art Museum |
Nocturnal
1999 |
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Nocturnal
1999 |
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Draft for a sculpture, "Finlandspark"
2005 |
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| 教育程度与个人自传 |
Helsinki University of Technology, Landscape architect 2007
Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, M.A. 1999, B.A. 1994
University of Industrial Arts Helsinki, Studies in Art Education, 1999 |
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