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SAGA: The Journey of Arno Rafael Minkkinen
Thirty-Five Years of Photographs
This exhibition is offered by Curatorial Assistance in association with Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP), Minneapolis/Paris. Curated by A.D. Coleman and Todd Brandow. Organized by Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP), Minneapolis/Paris
For over three decades, Arno Minkkinen has made fantastical self-portrait photographs of his nude body located in the landscape. In them, the artist’s long sinewy body is made to look like a tree, rock or ground as he plays on the ambiguity of the human body as a sculptural element in the great outdoors. We see fragments of his body; legs, shoulders, arms, back, thighs—but hardly ever his face—set in, on or over the land, often near or in water, and usually in his native Finland.
In this exhibition we join Minkkinen on his playful journey, seeing through his eyes how a figure might walk on water, float in space, or hold the moon with its fingers. We shed earthly limitations, transcending the boundaries between earth, sky, water and air. We defy gravity. We dissolve into a lake and envelope the cosmos.
A veteran of 1970s performance art, Minkkinen rightly enjoys a reputation as one of Europe’s leading conceptual photographers. This is the first comprehensive overview of the artist’s seminal imagery.
Image:
Self-portrait, Narragansett, Rhode Island, 1973
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