The Game of Art, an unprecedented exhibition involving football and art, in time for the World Cup, brings together Brazilian and Finnish artists from Ava Galleria.
Curated by Helena and Edson Cardoso, the show brings cultural diversity gathered around a worldwide passion, soccer.
In the spirit of the World Cup, Galleria Taideniitty opens the exhibition “The Game of Art, a friendly match (The Game of Art)”, bringing together Brazilian and Finnish artists, with the aim of inspiring and demonstrating the style of each, in the middle of this dispute between cultures, making an analogy between football and art, offering strong emotions and passions. One of the common characteristics of football and art is creativity and with a single objective – to excite those present at this show.
The exhibition organized by AVA Galleria brings together two passions, art and football, with teams made up of different cultures, almost opposite in relation to the globe, in a field where the ball is the creation of every artist and every goal is theirs. the arts. Curated by Edson Cardoso (Team Brazil) and Helena Cardoso (Team Finland), respected in the international art market for the quality of the exhibitions they organize, as well as for the artists they represent, emerging or already known.
Brazil’s selection consists of the visual artists who are ahead: Almir Reis, Ariane Cole, Cristina Bastos, Diana Chagas, Mara Estela, Mario Marques, Raphaela Vasconcellos and Malu Ribeiro (who lives in Portugal), in addition to the Portuguese. Sônia Travassos and Stela Barreto, who join this group to play this big ball that is art. Completing the team, Daniel Azulay, a great Brazilian visual artist, now deceased, but a special ‘player’, due to the cultural legacy he left with his works and his trajectory in Brazilian television, keeping the memories alive of those who lived in the 80s. The Finnish selection includes plastic artists Antti Raitala, Arttu Sailo, Birgit Walander, Hanne Rokkanen, Helena Kuulkers, Marko Viljakka, Merja Hujo, Milla Piirainen, Nina Husso, Riitta Santala-Köykkä, Sirpa Heikkinen. The show takes place at Galleria Taideniitty, Kissakoskenkatu 6, Varkaus. The opening will take place on November 12 at 16:00. “The Game of Art” can be visited from November 13 to December 12, 2022, from Tuesday to Saturday, from 12:00 to 17:00. Free entry and free censorship. Don’t miss this game! Founded in 2005, Ava Galleria is one of Helsinki’s most prestigious contemporary art galleries. Located in the cultural corridor of the city, close to Helsinki Art Museum, Taidehalli and Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art. It organizes local exhibitions and in collaboration with cultural spaces in other cities of the world, such as Osaka, Tokyo, Berlin, London, Porto and Rio de Janeiro. Galleria AVA also participates, every year, in Artexpo New York and the International Fair of Contemporary Art, at the Carrousel du Louvre, in Paris. It is now also open in Rio de Janeiro. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ava_galleria/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/avagalleria/ Website: http://www.avainternationalgallery.com/ E-mail: ava@avainternationalgallery. com Press Tips: @_paula_r_soares
