Grönlund - Nisunen
Subtitle: grey area
By: Pirkko Tuukkanen
Contributors: Nisunen, Petteri, 1962- artist; Tuukkanen, Pirkko, editor; Suomen Taideyhdistys; Taidehalli (Helsinki, Finland); Kuntsin modernin taiteen museo (Vaasa, Finland)
Publisher: Finnish Art Society
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Helsinki
Language: fin
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9789526847610
Subjects: Finnish Art; Site-specific installations (Art); Modern Art; Exhibitions
Other titles: Grey area :
Description: Grey Area, the title of the first-ever retrospective for the Finnish artist duo Tommi Grönlund and Petteri Nisunen, known as Grönlund-Nisunen, refers to the way their site-specific works occupy a space somewhere between visual art, natural sciences, architecture, and electronic music. According to Paul Klee, "art does not reproduce the visible but makes visible". Grönlund-Nisunen seem to have taken his words literally, as they investigate various physical forces and natural phenomena that are beyond the reach of our senses but which still impact our daily existence. If everything is going smoothly, we don't ask questions about phenomena such as gravity, electricity, magnetism, or lurking radiation. Using simple but effective technology, including a variety of sensors, transformers, and amplifiers, the artists make the unseen audible and turn the intangible into light, heat, or movement. Though it may sound dry, this exhibition shows that their works plumb surprisingly deep and powerful depths, from sheer joy and wonder to unease and even fear, as in the sine wave sound piece Ultrasound Installation, 1996, that changes its pitch in response to impulses from a radiation-measuring Geiger counter. Exhibition: Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland (28.01. - 05.03.2017) / Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland (12.05.-02.09.2018).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland from January 28 to March 5, 2017, and at the Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland from March 12 to September 2, 2018.

Text in Finnish and English, with some German.