Helsinki Contemporary

Works by Jussi Goman, Roland Persson and Emma Sarpaniemi at Turku Art Museum

28.11.2024

Works by Jussi Goman, Roland Persson and Emma Sarpaniemi are included in What (a) Colour, a newly opened collection exhibition at @turkuartmuseum.

The exhibition features work from the Golden Age of Finnish art through modernism and into the present day, showcasing over 60 works by 40 artists.

Colour is one of art’s key means of expression, operating within the registers of perception, physical experience and cultural conventions. What (a) Colour brings together paintings, graphic art, photography, moving image and sculpture, all of which illuminate the essence of colour in their own ways.

According to the latest scientific findings, colour equals light. Thus, the exhibition leads the viewer from soft darkness, through a grey gloom to dazzling sunlight and shining pure colours. What (a) Colour invites the viewer to regard colour in a new light, and to determine whether colour is an inherent property of the world or of the viewer. The exhibition encourages the viewer to experience how the body and the senses interpret colours, which are constantly born anew and in different guises based on the combined effects of the prevailing circumstances. It also leaves us to reflect on whether colour as such even exists, if we define it based on our subjective experience and as a creative act.

Alongside Turku Art Museum’s own acquisitions, works from the collections of Nils Dahlström, the Friends of Turku Art Museum and Lars Göran Johnsson are included, as well as an acquisition from the latest subcollection, Collection Lieto Savings Bank Foundation.

The exhibition is curated by Turku Art Museum’s curators Mia Haltia, Selina Kiiskinen and Annina Sirén.

Read more about the exhibition

Image: Emma Sarpaniemi: Self-portrait Wearing Green Panties I (2022). Archival pigment print mounted on aluminium, beech frame with museum glass. Courtesy of the artist and Helsinki Contemporary.

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