Utställningens målningar är inspirerade av Andy Warhol’s idé och slogan “The POP idea was that anybody could do anything. So naturally, we were all trying to do it all”.
Funk Punk är en filmmakare, teaterregissör, fotograf, skribent och numera också en målare, som har arbetat i Chile, Spanien och Finland. Verken är omarbetade versioner av målningarna som var gjorda som ett kollektivt arbete för utställningen Andy Warhol Superstars som visades i Kiasma 2015. Nu, inspirerad av Andy Warholsatsning, ställer Funk Punk ut sina stora målningar i utställningen Warholize me.
Utställningen visas i Helsingforsluckan och i Luckans stora fönster mot Georgsgatan under juni och juli 2016.
En vernissage hålls den 14 juni kl. 18 i Luckan.
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WARHOLIZE ME is inspired by Warhol’s slogan “The POP idea was that anybody could do anything. So naturally, we were all trying to do it all”
Funk Punk is a filmmaker, theatre director, photographer, poetry writer and today also a painter, who has been working in Chile, Spain and Finland. The diversity of those cultural backgrounds has merged into a syncretic expression, which is explored through his colourful pieces at display in Luckan in Helsinki. Chaos and order merge in a conflictive dialogue with the aim to give some color to a central corner of the city of Helsinki, in the crossing of Yrjönkatu and Simonkatu.
The paintings at display were developed in a collective work that belongs to a much broader experience, which involves music, theatre, dance, fashion, photography and cinema. The happening, called Andy Warhol Superstars, was premiered during 2015 in Kiasma Theatre. These paintings are a rework of the concept that was explored in that process.
For the paintings, the model Melina Korvenkontio posed characterized as one of the central personalities in the underground scene of New Yorks 60s, Michele Basquiat. Basquiat who died at the age of 27, was the first broadly recognized black artist in painting history. Inspired by philosophy, counterculture and graffiti, he made an extensive use of words in his paintings, which display a dialectic procedure with the aim to satirize about the Society and the Establishment.
As in the baroque music, where the variations of the same theme constitute the central artistic device to create a progression, in this show, multiple variations on the same subject superimposed on words create a conflicting image, which leaves us at the mercy of chaotic impressions, whereas the re-reading of the painting is the challenge and the objective.
The humble aim of this show, is to add a brushstroke of color and chaos to a city which is dominated by pastel colors and monochrome dressing codes, cleanliness, order and precision, Ikea furniture and Artek design, a society were standing out because of extravagance, seems to be a mark of bad taste. And Funk Punk is interested in bad taste, ugliness, disharmony, chaos, dirt, sex, counterculture and street art.
Colors that did not combine, do match today. Shapes that conflict between each other create a new harmony. The new beautiful is the previous ugly. And Funk Punk is here to share it with you.
