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JURI MARKKULA

Blazing Branches

 

November 5 - December 6, 2009

Opening Thursday November 5 at 5pm until 8pm.

 

 

Behind the work of Juri Markkula lay always intricate thinking processes and advanced technological solutions. He utilises tailor-made machines adjusted into perfection, until they function they way he wants. Amongst others he has built a machine in his studio that make images from an original photograph using wax heated to 100 degrees and pigmented. It’s the installations based on mathematical calculations that make the image. The image Autumn is an example of this work method.  

 

At this show is exhibited Timberwall. Markkula has got a particular interest in timber walls and he believes they’re beautiful. Therefore he built one using an axe to turn the surface into a perfect structure of a timber wall. It was placed in a 3D scanner and put into a 3D programme. Large 3D objects normally contains 1 million polygons, Markkula’s model had about 20 millions. An enlarged slightly tilted model of this tree structure was sharpened and what we see in the gallery is a relief of Markkula’s timber wall. The lacked surface gives an unrealistic feel to the piece, separated from its original materiality. The original structure of rotten tree and hacks generate a new impression. And the image manifest a poetic remain of reality.

 

Markkula’s artistry contains the development and redefinition of the tools he’s using. On the one hand these machines are tools for the image making, and on the other hand the image is the unavoidable product of a process. Our perception of reality is of interest for Markkula and his work does at all times appeal our curiosity looking at images. His works are sensitive and peculiar objects, which will often leave the viewer puzzled with questions as to what is actually on display.

Juri Markkula was born in 1970 in Finland. He now lives and works in Visby, Sweden. Markkula graduated from the Royal College of Arts in Stockholm in 2002 and has since participated in several exhibitions around the country. He has also worked with public commissions and art in the public realm. Last year, commissioned by Statens Konstråd he made Troy. The starting point for this place specific piece is a ship container. The surface has been lacked in camouflage shifting in various colours depending on where you’re placed in relation to the work. Troy received a great deal of recognition and a model of the work was earlier this year exhibited at Skissernas Museum in Lund, Sweden. The exhibition From Place to Place put focus on how creative processes and conditions for contemporary artists working in the public feed extraordinary genre over lapping work methods.

This is Markkula’s third exhibition with Angelika Knäpper Gallery.    

 

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Autum, 2009, wax and oil on panel, 178x178 cm

 

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