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Anu Torikan töiden
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The principal content of printmaker Anu Torikka’s work has long been the combining of image and writing as well as the signs in the borderland between them. In her work she has even gradually moved in a direction where making artist’s books is also very natural. Collecting found objects and an interest in handicrafts and bookbinding are a part of this. Surprising combinations, changes in form and then giving these found objects a new content is the way she works. Since 1997 she has created book works as introductions to her exhibitions. For example, in the 2005 exhibition Jäljillä [Tracks] at the Ahjo Art Centre in Joensuu there was a box containing cards in relief to which were attached objects found on the shore of Lake Onega –on the back were written texts for the works in the exhibition. Some visual or written diary entries from her travels have in different ways become part of collected book works; in some cases the text has been written on newspaper wrappers or the pages are collages of found materials. Her April 2005 stay at the artist’s residence in Grassina, Italy was the source of four artist’s books in the Biblioteko exhibition: Word Book, Come va?, Explorations and Colours. |