Opening hours: Friday, April 25, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Saturday, April 26, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Sunday, April 27, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Monday, April 28, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.

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Galerie Anhava will be participating for the first time in ART CHICAGO. The focus of our stand is on contemporary Nordic art, with the theme of the Nordic gaze as the connecting thread through the works of the presented artists.

Anne-Karin Furunes (born 1961) is a Norwegian painter known for her works employing perforation technique. Based on photographs, these pieces have a black or white canvas perforated by the artist in imitation of the screen of a photograph. At Art Chicago we will show new works depicting landscapes.

Kristján Gudmundsson (born 1941, Iceland) is a central figure of the first generation of Icelandic conceptual art - intelligent, severe, humoristic and poetic. Gudmundsson's works stimulate the intelligent viewer and give deep satisfaction to the aesthetician, while some find appeal in their refined humour and others in an absoluteness resembling mathematical expressions.

Arno Rafael Minkkinen (born 1945) is a Finnish-born photographer who grew up and studied in the United States. For over thirty years he has been working using his own naked body as means of investigating the relationship we have with nature. Minkkinen is a kind of wizard, whose works are at once witty, profound and poetic. The richly toned black and white prints are truly surprising, arousing feelings of wonderment and confusion in the viewer

Marika Mäkelä’s (born 1947, Finland) paintings speak of that which can only be said with the brush of a great painter. Her themes and subjects refer to things of major importance, and her manner of painting brings them close, to be comprehended, wandered through with the gaze. She is one of the central figures among the strong female painters of her generation in Finland.

Jorma Puranen (born 1951, Finland) challenges in his works the conventional use of photography as well as our understanding of history. At Art Chicago we will show works from his series ”Icy Prospects”, in which Jorma Puranen painted a piece of wooden board with black, glossy alkyd paint, took it outdoors in winter and photographed the fragmentary reflection of nature on the surface of the board. The result was a series of extremely painterly, painting-like, works, in which the brushstrokes and the uneven features of the board are mixed with the reflected landscape.

Marko Vuokola (born 1967, Finland) is a meditative artist, particularly interested in issues of seeing, perception, knowledge and time. He chooses a method that can be applied to investigating the question at hand and follows it uncompromisingly. The final work is filtered out of the acquired material through elimination and selection.