View from Karpathos

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Showing posts with label Alvar Aalto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alvar Aalto. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Art Exhibition "Pieni Piirustusnäyttely" in Säynätsalo Library, 16.11. - 18.12.2015

"Pieni Piirustusnäyttely" ("A Tiny Drawing Exhibition") is now opened in Säynätsalo Library, Jyväskylä!

The site of this exhibition is a great one: the famous Säynätsalon Kunnantalo (Säynätsalo Town Hall) by Alvar Aalto (photo: www.rakennusperintö.fi):


I had two assistants in the construction session: my wife Sanni (left) and our library official Tiiu (right):


I will thank both ladies!

More photos in next posts....



Friday, November 21, 2014

"A Day in Wyborg".



You may recall my post about the familiar yard in the old town of Wyborg?

After finishing this drawing I went to my framing company in Jyväskylä city (Flyktman Ltd., I strongly recommend it!). My wife prefers relatively strong-colored passepartout, and she was right!

I think that the value of this work is hidden in its details.

As you know, Finland has lost this ancient Hansa town to "CCCP" after WW II. Very many specialists in Finland think, however, that this event actually saved the old, fine buildings of Wyborg center - no "carton box architecture" like big hypermarkets but the old houses are still there! Not in the best conditions, maybe, but some of them are fixed up in recent years (The Library by Alvar Aalto is the best example).

My wife said: "There is a feeling in this drawing", and she is (again) right. I think that I have put something in the details of this, otherwise relatively humble, drawing.