Pre-Colombian Art, Didrichsen Art Museum

Mr. Gunnar Didrichsen was a successful & wealthy businessman in the field of techno-chemistry & import. He was the CEO of Transmeri for 60 years and travelled a lot. During his travels he collected an extensive collection of Chinese, Persian and pre-Columbian objects.

Pre-Columbian art refers to the Mexican, Central American, and Andean territories from about 2000 BC to 1500 AD. The collection of the Didrichsen Art Museum is the only public collection of pre-Columbian cultures in Finland. 

I took photos of these wonderful objects, but don’t dare to say anything about their origin,

Asian or Pre-Columbian. Some faces were so cute and smiling, maybe they are ancient gods?

The objects were displayed in the basement of the museum behind glass.

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Many of us know the version of Simon & Carfunkel of El Condor Pasa from 1970. 

The song dates back to 1913 and was composed by Peruvian composer Alomía Robles.

Ecuadorian Leo Rojas (b. 1984) has become famous in Germany. READ more on Wikipedia. 

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Els Quatre Gats

I had an espresso in this historical café. Els Quatre Gats / The Four Cats is a café in Barcelona, that became a popular meeting place for famous artists throughout the modernist period in Catalonia, known as Modernisme. The café opened in 1897 and served as a hostel, bar and cabaret until it eventually became a central meeting point for Barcelona’s most prominent modernist figures, such as Pablo Picasso and Ramon Casas i Carbó. The bar closed due to financial difficulties in June 1903, but was reopened and eventually restored to its original condition in 1989.

In 1899, at 17 years old, Pablo Picasso began frequenting Els Quatre Gats and even held his first solo exhibition in the main room. The poster that now stands on the corner of the street outside the café was designed by Picasso. I do not have a better photo of Picasso's poster, but see this link. There you can see also the wonderful facade of this house.

Ramon Casas and Pere Romeu on a Tandem 

Cría cuervos de Carlos Saura from 1977

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What Does the Fox Say?

This week I used both Jutta’s original photo & my own autumn bench.

Ylvis is a Norwegian comedy duo whose greatest hit is

What does the Fox Say from 2013

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Color Therapy in Orange

Makrotex asks for ORANGE. Here a miscellaneous selection of old photos

and focus in black & white for Christa.

This ceiling fresco with Kalevala theme is painted by one of our

most famous artists, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, The National Museum of Finland, Helsinki.

The exhibition of Natalia Goncharova that I saw in Florence

comes to Ateneum, Helsinki at the end of February.

 Pekka Halonen: Tomatoes, 1913

For Jutta’s Digital Art Tuesday I changed edited paintings

to the same frame.

Maybe you wish to watch Orange Colored Sky on the video!

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Modern Jewellery à la Cranach

Design: Kerstin Mayer, 2005

I told you about Lucas Cranach exhibition HERE. Modern jewellery à la Cranach was part of the exhibition, designed by contemporary German artists in 2015. It was the year of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Lucas Cranach the Younger and the Saxony-Anhalt Arts Foundation arranged a competition. The exhibition of these amazing & imaginary works was shown in 2015-16 at three museums in Germany - and now I could see them in Helsinki! There were big posters with beautiful young girls and the jewellery was under glass.

Pieces of jewellery play a key role in Cranach’s works. They emphasize a woman’s status and beauty, often being nude beauties’ only accessory. The items painted by Cranach generally represented the fashion of the Wittenberg court.

Fokus auf Schwartz / Weiss für Christa

Design: Georg Dobler, 2014

Design: Svenja John, 2014

Design: Franziska Höhne, 2014

Design: Mareen Alburg Duncker, 2014

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OODI - The Public Library of the Year 2019!

The best new public library of the year 2019 is Oodi Helsinki Central Library! 

This is what the jury said:

Looking like a large, undulating wooden ship, Finland’s most spectacular library is located in the middle of the capital’s city square, with a direct view of the Finnish parliament. The spectacular Oodi building is in every way the house of the people, because the citizens themselves have contributed with requests and suggestions for how it could be used. At the same time, 95 per cent of the library’s 10,000 square feet of space is open to the public for 90 hours a week.

International Federation of Library Associations / IFLA and the Danish software company Systematic choose the yearly winner. The award is presented to a library that has best managed to combine open, functional architecture with creative IT solutions, and that has also included modern digital capabilities as well as elements from local culture.

The four nominated libraries were:

The Green Square Library and Plaza,  Australia

Bibliotheek LocHal, Holland

Oodi Helsinki Central Library, Finland

Türanga – Christchurch Central Library, New Zealand

Für Juttas Fokus auf Schwarz / Weiss habe ich eine Collage gemacht.

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For Jutta’s Focus aon Black/White I made a collage of my Oodi photos.

I looked at the photos of the nominees and especially the Australian library pleased me. 

I have written about Oodi in several posts. See them all HERE.

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