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Finnish Museum of Photography: Antero Takala
- 27/01 - 23/05 2010
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Antero Takala: Mindscapes 1960 – 2010
The Mindscapes exhibition is a retrospective view of 50 years of production by photographic artist and professor Antero Takala (b. 1939). The exhibition includes a black-and-white landscape trilogy made up of more than a hundred photographs, celebrating Finnish nature, northern light, lake landscapes and Lapland. At the turn of the 1960s and 70s, Takala was the first Finnish photographer to investigate the expressive use of photography in television. Two major works of Finnish experimental film and video art, Romeo and Julia (1972) and Piha (courtyard, 1980), are in the exhibition. You can also see a 1972 version of Photoshop – the “videoväritin” (colour corrector) – created in YLE, the Finnish Broadcasting Company’s, design laboratory.
Also forming part of the exhibition is a series of portraits of Finnish stage actors of the 1960s.
The exhibition coincides with the release of the book Antero Takala Mindscape / Mielenmaisema by publishers Musta Taide.
Meet the Artist: Antero Takala introduces the exhibition to the public (in Finnish) at 2 pm on 31.1. Museum entrance fee.
Photography as handicraft – Antero Takala talks about his working methods (in Finnish) at 2 pm on 25.4. Free entry.
The Mindscapes exhibition is a retrospective view of 50 years of production by photographic artist and professor Antero Takala (b. 1939). The exhibition includes a black-and-white landscape trilogy made up of more than a hundred photographs, celebrating Finnish nature, northern light, lake landscapes and Lapland. At the turn of the 1960s and 70s, Takala was the first Finnish photographer to investigate the expressive use of photography in television. Two major works of Finnish experimental film and video art, Romeo and Julia (1972) and Piha (courtyard, 1980), are in the exhibition. You can also see a 1972 version of Photoshop – the “videoväritin” (colour corrector) – created in YLE, the Finnish Broadcasting Company’s, design laboratory.
Also forming part of the exhibition is a series of portraits of Finnish stage actors of the 1960s.
The exhibition coincides with the release of the book Antero Takala Mindscape / Mielenmaisema by publishers Musta Taide.
Meet the Artist: Antero Takala introduces the exhibition to the public (in Finnish) at 2 pm on 31.1. Museum entrance fee.
Photography as handicraft – Antero Takala talks about his working methods (in Finnish) at 2 pm on 25.4. Free entry.
