Reflections. In retrospect: do we have to choose between art and research practice
Weckman, Jan-Kenneth (2016)
The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi
2016
Kuvaus
Jan Kenneth Weckman, Amos Lab.
Represented in numerous museums and collections
of painting and drawing, Jan Kenneth Weckman works as a visual artist, having graduated with a doctoral degree in Fine Art at the Fine Art Academy (University of Arts, Helsinki) in 2005. His research interests focus on the semiotics of art and artistic practice as well as public and environmental art pertaining to communication and rhetorical theory. Weckman held a professorship in visual composition at the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, and has exhibited extensively in Finland and internationally. His writing practice unfolds occasionally, amid mainly artistic work, with a short publishing history for Turku University (public art), thesis reviews (Fine Art Academy and Aalto University) as well as postgraduate level reviews (Aalto, University of Lapland).
Represented in numerous museums and collections
of painting and drawing, Jan Kenneth Weckman works as a visual artist, having graduated with a doctoral degree in Fine Art at the Fine Art Academy (University of Arts, Helsinki) in 2005. His research interests focus on the semiotics of art and artistic practice as well as public and environmental art pertaining to communication and rhetorical theory. Weckman held a professorship in visual composition at the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, and has exhibited extensively in Finland and internationally. His writing practice unfolds occasionally, amid mainly artistic work, with a short publishing history for Turku University (public art), thesis reviews (Fine Art Academy and Aalto University) as well as postgraduate level reviews (Aalto, University of Lapland).
Tiivistelmä
How do artists experience and address beauty at present? Has the notion of beauty vanished completely from artistic discourse? Are ornaments still allowed? What does a contemporary ornament look like? In the exhibition Ornament & Beauty, mounted at Titanik Gallery (5–29 May 2016) in connection with the conference Art Approaching Science and Religion, 12–13 May 2016, the artists intended to comment on questions such as those in the texts published here and through the art works presented.