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Doig's Painting and Berlin
By Misha del Val
This is a painting by Scottish-born, Trinidad-based artist Peter Doig. My long, scruffy figure quivered as I stood in front of it at CFA gallery, the mid-winter morning I first set foot in Berlin, back in 2009. That day... (read more)
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Aine
By Misha del Val
Eila Aine was a discreet, unassuming, well-travelled mother of four who, for a day job, would look into other silent people’s wide open mouths. She read avidly, was a person awake to the current affairs... (read more)
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Staalo Turns 50
Misha del Val for Kielmukka magazine
​We arrived, as usual, a few minutes late. The room at Käki was poorly illuminated, had a mistreated piano in one corner, theatre props scattered here and there, and the unmistakable smell of self-conscious youth. 
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As Above, So Below
By Misha del Val
I try to remain sensitive during our painting sessions, so that the actual handling of paint dictate the direction of the work and the emergence of the characters. In a way, I don't feel qualified... (read more)
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Untitled (Self-portrait)
By Misha del Val
It was during an evening Raisa and I felt particularly buoyant and spirited, despite the snow being stacked outside in colossal piles, far too large for that time of the year, and the world still gnashing its teeth... (read more)
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Musta Kissa ja Galleria Valo
By Misha del Val
Three worthy reasons took me to Rovaniemi last week: a train south to fetch madre from Helsinki; the wicked celebrations in Musta Kissa for the 40th year amongst us of the Pharaoh... (read more)
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Spirit of North vol. 10
By Misha del Val
I had a day off in Rovaniemi and decided to spend it in one of my favourite places in town: the Korundi House of Culture. I prowled for the second time through the ‘Spirit of North’ vol. 10 exhibition... (read more)
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The Story of the 4 Self-portraits
​By Misha del Val
I painted these self-portraits in a couple of hours, covering unfinished paintings, with the aid of a small mirror, listening to punk rock music, at the Old Potato Shed, Robertson, Australia, where I then had my studio...  (read more)
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Tiwi Mob Bus
By Misha del Val
​A bunch of Tiwi-Islanders roam through the desert plains squeezed in a mini-bus. This is ‘Tiwi Mob Bus’, a picture I painted many years ago while living at Pirlangimpi community in Melville Island, about 80 km.... (read more)

Aine

28/10/2020

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Eila Aine was a discreet, unassuming, well-travelled mother of four who, for a day job, would look into other silent people’s wide open mouths. She read avidly, was a person awake to the current affairs of her own time and place, and bore a caring voice for other fellow women of her generation, whose song was, due to the ebb and flow of the times, not being properly heard. Further, Eila and her husband Veli Aine, a successful businessman in the area of motoring, shared a common passion for the visual arts; they collected extensively and enjoyed their acquisitions at their Tornio house. This mutual interest for art became a seed. Over time, when their house got packed to the rafters with artworks, this seed reaped its fruit. Since, we have the Aine Art Museum in Tornio.
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Aine Art Museum Director ​Katriina Pietilä-Juntura introducing Aine exhibition
Aine Art Museum has opened its doors for ‘Eila’, an exhibition celebrating 100 years of Eila Aine’s birth, with a thoughtful selection of artworks from the museum’s collections. At the opening, as the occasion called for, there were speeches. Eila’s granddaughter, Outi Aine, shared first-hand, insightful accounts about her grandmother’s multifaceted personality, her example as a woman dedicated to both, her family and her profession, her personal interests and her gifts. Museum director Katriina Pietilä-Juntura introduced the outlines of the exhibition, shed light on the themes behind each of the four rooms comprising the show and, pausing every now and then to talk aboutparticular works, directed the audience's attention in the room like a well-versed orquestra conductor.​

The first room, where the speeches were held, was themed ‘Kevyesti keskellä päivää‘ (Lightly in the Middle of the Day) honouring the homonymous radio program, Eila would surely have listened to in the midst of the bustle of her family life and dentist practice... (read more)
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    Misha del Val is a Lapland-Based visual artist, writer, independent curator and meditation enthusiast.

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