Eija-Liisa Ahtila: Kiasma. (Helsinki).When Eija-Liisa Ahtila Eija-Liisa Ahtila (born 1959 in Hämeenlinna, Finland) is a video artist and photographer. She lives and works in Helsinki. She was the winner of the inaugural Vincent Award in 2000 and was announced as the winner of the second £40,000 Artes Mundi prize on March 31st, 2006. captured the first Vincent award The Vincent Award (or The Vincent van Gogh Biennial Award for Contemporary Art in Europe) is awarded every two years to a European artist that judges believe "will have significant, enduring impact on contemporary art. for European art in 2000, it came as no surprise to those familiar with the visual subtlety and narrative force evident in all of her video work--from the three punchy punch·y adj. punch·i·er, punch·i·est 1. Characterized by vigor or drive: "He speaks in short, punchy sentences, using plain, populist words that excite" TV-related shorts Me/We, Okay, and Gray (all 1993) to the two-screen Consolation Service, 1999, a story of interpersonal disintegration and its aftermath singled out by critics at that year's Venice Biennale Venice Biennale International art exhibition held in the Castello district of Venice every two years and juried by an international committee. It was founded in 1895 as the International Exhibition of Art of the City of Venice to promote “the most noble activities of . Organized by Kiasma's Maria Hirvi, these works and others, including Anne, Aki and God, 1998, in which the borders between reality, imagination, and mental pathology blur to extinction, survey a decade of Ahtila's output. Feb. 23-Apr. 28; Tate Modern, London, Apr. 30-July 28. |
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