sunnuntai 7. maaliskuuta 2010
Opening photos and news about the second week
sunnuntai 28. helmikuuta 2010
Caffelatte opening tomorrow at 18h!
During the opening it'll be possible to have a small talk with some of the artists and eat delicious italian snacks... and to complete the night, storyteller Zambrano will warm up the mood with some of his music.
Galleria Espoonsilta is situated on the bridge of "Espoo" central train station, in Virastopiha 3. See you soon - a presto!
Berlusconi, Dante's Inferno and the little groups: an audiovisual work by Kari Yli-Annala
Caffelatte is proud to present the premiere of Kari Yli-Annala's work In Piccoli Gruppi (2010), a videotravelogue filmed in Florence 2003, during the still ongoing "burlesconian" regime. A small group of friends from a Collegium in Perugia, groups and pairs of unknown people and occasional birds are reflected to each other and to a distorted portrait of the power circle of Berlusconi and Canto I in Dante´s Inferno.
>>> Kari Yli-Annala's audiovisual work exhibited 1.-7.3.2010
Diego Miedo - street art and animation from Naples
He works on the streets attacking posters and painting murals depicting monsters, people destroyed by life or fun shapes, trying to awaken the slumbering mind of the Neapolitans and making them watch a more colourful streetview. He also realizes comics and cartoons that speak of life.
Caffelatte is bringing to Finland for the first time the artworks of Diego Miedo by presenting a set of posters and two animations released in 2009, Alabama Night and The Dance, the last made in collaboration with Ryan Dooley.
>>> Diego Miedo's urban art and animation exhibited 8.-14.3.2010
lauantai 27. helmikuuta 2010
Piazza Inferno, between the lightness and darkness of Hannele Matinlauri
For enviromental artist Hannele Matinlauri, both art and artwork mean possibilities - they enable to move from immaterial subjects to material objects: from being to an experience, from experience to a thought, from though to an action, from action to an artwork, from an artwork to a thought, from a thought to experience…This movement is a fascinating and endless process. At which point it becomes art or is named art, is one of her main interest that she has been testig through her group performances.
Hannele Matinlauri has created a spatial artwork for the upcoming Caffelatte event. Meetingpoints of Khali consist of separate works, together forming a complete entity that will be present for the whole program of two weeks. The photo attached is part of her work: "Piazza Inferno, light work made out of smoked wooden mosaic, is part of my spatial artwork for Caffelatte project. In this work I'm examining the deep contrast between lightness and darkness through cubic structures, contrasting colours and images of mind. "
>>> Hannele Matinlauri's spatial work exhibited 1.-14.3.2010
Maija Ylä-Sahra's oil paintings and photography related to the city of Cortona
Maija Ylä-Sahra is a painter from Espoo with a great passion for Italian culture. Her works has been shown in galleries through Finland, Brazil and Italy.
Her last exhibition was organized in september-october 2009 in Cortona, Italy, as part of the fifth edition of art collective Donnarte. The exhibition took place in the historical Fortress of the Girifalco.
Ylä-Sahra created two oil paintings for the upcoming Caffelatte: Two Cappucinos and Coffee Cups. Apart her paintings, some photos from her last visit in Cortona will be also shown in Espoonsilta.
>>> Maija Ylä-Sahra's paintings and photos exhibited 1.-7.3.2010
Old Italian towns, nature and mystique in the aquarelles of Helena Karhumäki
"The most important things in my work are inspiration, feeling and process. My paintings are kind of emotional memories about different situations, places and moments. According to different seasons, bright and clean colours take turns with broken colours. Lately mystique has begun to attract me.
During the last few years I have had an opportunity to paint in Hungary and Italy. The scenes in Piemonte and Toscana as well as the atmosphere of Umbrian and Perugian hill towns, cathedrals and monasteries reflect in some of my works. Nature in general is an endless source of inspiration. Flowers again interpret emotions and feelings. I use both acquarell and oil techniques."
>>> Aquarelles of Helenä Karhumäki exhibited 1.-7.3.2010
perjantai 26. helmikuuta 2010
Love & death: the videoart of Lucio Luongo
"Love and death have been the center of my work. They are the effects of each other. Love is a feeling so viscerally intense, deep, wild and piercing, that only those who have no fear of death can live in deeper ways. The intensive research of their relationship celebrates these two great laws that dominate human conscience, the central keys of the interpretation of life."
>>> Lucio Luongo's videoart exhibited 8.-14.3.2010
torstai 25. helmikuuta 2010
Pencil & ink stories by Luca Cannavò
“For me, drawing is the only possible way of being free.”
>>> Luca Cannavò's drawings exhibited 8.-14.3.2010
keskiviikko 24. helmikuuta 2010
The Venice of Tuulia Susiaho
Tuulia Susiaho is a graduate of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. Apart solo exhibitions, her video works and installations have been featured at many group exhibitions both in Finland and abroad. In 2007 her works has been presented as part of the "How to look at Venice?" -exhibition in Galleria Contemporaneo (Mestre, Venice).
Susiaho is partecipating in the 2010 Caffelatte exhibition with two experimental works that were shot in Italy, 1° Agosto (2007) and Se Brusa la Vecia (2005). The title of the work "Se Brusa la Vecia" recalls an old tradition from the region of Veneto where a puppet resembling an old woman is set on fire for the symbolic purpose of leaving the past behind and welcoming the new year.
>>> Tuulia Susiaho's video works exhibited 1.-7.3.2010
tiistai 23. helmikuuta 2010
Bizzare city views through the lens of Emiliano Verrocchio
"I have always been living in big cities and therefore think that I miss the ”countryside feeling” of simple things. Everything I see around city centres is somehow full of nothing-and-something at the same time, and so I try to catch both aspects with photos. The strange relation between these apparently dead objects and people is puzzling me. Unnatural things are made by humans and so they tell me quite a lot about their producers."
>>> Emiliano Verrocchio's photos exhibited 8.-14.3.2010
maanantai 22. helmikuuta 2010
Caffelatte at Galleria Espoonsilta 1.-14.3.2010
The art collective Caffelatte is back in Galleria Espoonsilta for the second time! Our finnish-italian collective is represented this time mostly by new artists and some old friends from the 2008 –exhibition. The previous exhibition lasted one week, bringing up 13 artists. Now the partecipants has been given more time, and the gallery space will be available for two weeks. This time a dozen artists (plus some guests at the opening) will show their creativity, being devided in two groups of one week each. Welcome to the opening monday 1.3.2010 at 18:00, that will start with some little italian snacks and storyteller Zambrano's music. Galleria Espoonsilta is situated on the bridge of "Espoo" central train station, in Virastopiha 3. The exhibition is open every day 10-18h.
PROGRAM 2.-7.3.2010
Kari Yli-Annala / Audiovisual experimental works
Tuulia Susiaho / Audiovisual experimental works
Helena Karhumäki / Watercolour paintings
Maija Ylä-Sahra / Oil paintings, photography
Hannele Matinlauri / Environmental art
PROGRAM 8.-14.3.2010
Diego Miedo / Audiovisual experimental works, animation
Lucio Luongo / Audiovisual experimental works, animation
Emiliano Verrocchio / Photography
Luca Cannavó / Drawings, graphics
Diego Miedo / Street art, drawings, graphics
Hannele Matinlauri / Environmental art