Anni Rapinoja
Basic information
b. 1949, Hailuoto
Visual Artist, Sculptor, Installation Artist, Environmental Artist, Installation Artist, Land Artist
Contact information
Email: a.rapinoja(at)gmail.com
Artist’s Statement
Nature has been a partner to Hailuoto artist Anni Rapinoja for nearly 20 years. Studies in botany and geography have been crucially important to her. The ‘art of nature’ and environmental activism have gone hand-in-hand.
The works in the Wardrobe of Nature series depict the relationship between people and nature. The forms are primarily from the human world, but the works
themselves are a part of nature, works of art. Structurally, the “shoes, handbags, goblets...” are especially light; the structure of the mould comprises tissue paper hardened with rye porridge. sun, wind or water is needed to give shape to the work.
For example “Green thoughts”, originally built of green leaves of lingonberry, are only just in the beginning of their process, though the artist’sproportion and possibility to effect has finished. Large works often have cotton or woolen material as supporting structures.
The need to touch these works is bewildering and understandable. People have drifted far away from their ‘home’, from nature. Seeing forms of one’s own world combined with nature awakens a subconscious need to get close to it, to get inside. The explorer of the art does not take the time to observe his or her actions,
although on a conscious level they know that you don’t touch works of art. The art brings out a craving to be close to nature, a desire to go back ‘home’. Beside ”low-tech” there exist ”high-tech”, photographs, videos, ventilators, microscopes.
The works in the Wardrobe of Nature series depict the relationship between people and nature. The forms are primarily from the human world, but the works
themselves are a part of nature, works of art. Structurally, the “shoes, handbags, goblets...” are especially light; the structure of the mould comprises tissue paper hardened with rye porridge. sun, wind or water is needed to give shape to the work.
For example “Green thoughts”, originally built of green leaves of lingonberry, are only just in the beginning of their process, though the artist’sproportion and possibility to effect has finished. Large works often have cotton or woolen material as supporting structures.
The need to touch these works is bewildering and understandable. People have drifted far away from their ‘home’, from nature. Seeing forms of one’s own world combined with nature awakens a subconscious need to get close to it, to get inside. The explorer of the art does not take the time to observe his or her actions,
although on a conscious level they know that you don’t touch works of art. The art brings out a craving to be close to nature, a desire to go back ‘home’. Beside ”low-tech” there exist ”high-tech”, photographs, videos, ventilators, microscopes.
Current information
4.2. - 27.5.2018THE SECOND SKIN
Museum Schloss Moyland
Bedburg - Hau
Germany
group exhibition
24.5. - 30.9.2018
RYSCH & PYSCH
GARDEROB FYND
K.H. Renlund museum
Kokkola, Finland
group exhibition
26.9.2018 - 13.1.2019
NATURALLY ANNI RAPINOJA
Oulu Museum of Art
Oulu
Finland
solo exhibition
www.rapinoja.com works, but is not quite up to date. Renewal due to a problem-producing program.
