Kari Soinio 7.2.-1.3.2009
Domesticated Hero
Much of my art has focused on subverting traditional constructs of masculinity. Using myself as the model, I have sought to question received notions of manhood, the male body and the very act of viewing and seeing itself. I have been creating these images for more than twenty years, and my latest exhibition, the Domesticated Hero, continues to explore the themes addressed in my earlier series.
The Domesticated Hero presents my character, already familiar from my earlier works, in a new environment. Formerly pictured in natural and urban settings, he now retreats to the intensely private setting of the house and garden. The freedom and sensuality of nature is brought into the tightly managed and well-hidden domestic sphere. The home becomes an interior landscape, the reflection of a dialogue between masculinity and femininity, sexuality and sensuality. One moment we see our hero flirting with the camera, the next plunged into despair.
Kari Soinio
With financial support from the Photography Arts Council Finland
BOOK LAUNCH Galleria Heino Friday 6 February, 2 pm.
The Galleria Heino exhibition coincides with the launch of From Landscape to Place, an exploration of the work of Kari Soinio, published by Maahenki. Richly illustrated, the book also incorporates four research articles by Steven Dixon (USA/Sweden), Hanna Johansson, Leena-Maija Rossi and Paul Wilson (USA). Both the images and articles take their theme from the national landscape as a cultural and ideological construct, the urban landscape, corporeality, gender and visual representation theory.
KERAVA ART MUSEUM From Landscape to Place, 28.1. – 15.3.2009
Running alongside the Galleria Heino exhibition is the Kari Soinio retrospective From Landscape to Place at Kerava Art Museum (28 January to 15 March). The Kerava Art Museum is located at Klondyketalo, Kumitehtaankatu 5F, Savio. Tel. 09-294 8090.
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