Dodge Coronet #75 on acrylic glass, 2009
“Vanishing Point” is a collaboration project of designer Jukka Korpihete and Tuomas Laitinen. It will be shown as a part of Stage theatre festival in Korjaamo culture factory in august 09.
Paintings made with muscle cars, wrecked car installations, strange kitch objects, obsessions and wunderbaums. For a sneak preview of [...]
A cross, a nought, an empty board or a new beginning?
The flashing neon lights catch the eye in Tuomas Laitinen`s (b. 1976) new work, Wall Street (2009). Is that a cross or a nought drawn on a playing board, or is the board empty? The time and space in the work are both hectic and meditative at the same time. On the wall a sequencer from a “one-armed bandit”, those gambling machines familiar from shopping centre atriums, clicks incessantly into a microphone. Just a single part being sidetracked can change the direction of the game in totally unpredictable ways…
I have two works on display in this show. The first is a light box installation “Heat”, 2007, which belongs to the museum collections. The other one is collaboration with designer Jukka Korpihete.
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