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Les Secrets du Hammam Video | Fusion des Cultures Video - March 2007 | Media |
Starring:  M.Mohammed Khomas (www.museedemarrakech.ma) - please
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 (Copyright of photograph: Kaarina Kaikkonen: Way, 2000) The Helsinki International Exhibition: Cultural Fusion - The Art of Openness and Transparency - Ari Kovero represented Finland among artists from 43 countries in an exhibition held in the Russian Federation Scientific and Cultural Centre in Helsinki, Finland (www.ruscentre.org), in October 2007
Read what the newspapers in for example Morocco had to say about the event!
Saint George's Spring Campaign to Stockholm, Sweden, April 2009 |
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Nimetön 9 Untitled with the class of 2004 in the Suomenlinna Jetty Barracks Garrison Gallery, 8-31 May 2008. Suomenlinna is the largest sea fortress in the world just off the coast of Helsinki. Also see www.helsingintaiteilijaseura.fi
A taste from the press release: "I am a slave of intuition.... - but as long as I fill myself with Beauty, Truth and Goodness this is not unpleasant. The problem is of course that they sink into the seemingly bottomless volcano that is my heart and in this struggle and turmoil, my art is born - partly dark, partly light; and all the colours in between. "But see for yourself, for you also have eyes in your heart."
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"Ari Kovero uses powerful colours to create symbolic-abstract images. In a manner of speaking he is actually writing the painting with colour, using the palette knife rather than the brush as his 'pen'. The signs he makes form a whole as in ancient picture writing or Native American sand-writing. They do not however form a 'secret language' but rather a memorial tapestry totally open to vision. Signs like the cross, a check or a circle are signs that everyone understands and knows but in the painting they receive different and new meanings depending on their position, size and colour - and these signs are connected to the codes of gender. In some places the signs form a language that intergrates with the painting forming neon-like, astonishing brightness. The all but impossible integration of glaring colours has succeeded in this trans-gender feast."
Erkki Pirtola curator, art critic, writer, television reporter, filmmaker, gallerist, painter
Helsinki, May 2008
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 Le salon du refusé - Ari Kovero's politically incorrect rejected proposal for the Pori Art Museum. Click on the Temptation and see what happens.... |
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Crossroads
Helsinki, May 2006
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Congreso Internacional de Artes Plásticas Valencia, Spain, November 2005 |
For Heaven's Sake!! Helsinki, August 2005
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Heart-Mirrors Helsinki, June-July 2004
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The Night of Faith - The Morning of Hope Lohja, August 2006, joint exhibition with Ville Löppönen |
Calendar 56: Time
Joint exhibition with 15 other artists in the Itu Art and Culture Centre, Humppila, June-September 2006 |
Celestial Fireworks
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The Wonders of the Qi: Chinese Calligraphy
Joint exhibition with eight other artists, Helsinki, October-November 2006 |
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Finnish Faith Joint exhibition with 13 other artists |
Temptations Exhibition in Kanneltalo, Helsinki, May 2007 |
The Upside Down Exhibition
Juthbacka Manor, Nykarleby
August 2007
- Upside Down with Ari Kovero - article in Jakobstads Tidning 17.8.2007 |
Joint exhibition with six other artists in
Galleria Vaaga The Cable Factory Cultural Centre, Helsinki September 2007 |
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Future Exhibitions:
- Invited to exhibit at the Galleria Ulaani, Töölö, Helsinki
- Invited to exhibit at the Gallery Kadieff, Helsinki, at an as of yet unspecified time in the future
- Exhibition at the art salon Piirto, Helsinki, at an as of yet unspecified time in the future
- Invited to the gallery Oljemark, Töölö, Helsinki, one of the oldest galleries in Finland, exact time to be agreed upon shortly, see www.galleriat.net/gallery.asp?cid=25
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