Aleksi Tolonen
Stuff
20.8.-12.9.2021
The artist is present Saturday August 21 and Sunday August 22 at 12-5 pm.
I like stuff. I do stuff. I make stuff. I have so much stuff my studio is stuffy. I think and won-der so much my mind is stuffy. So I made this exhibition with stuff and about stuff, stuff I´ve painted, glued together, sculpted, reworked, drawn, stuff I think about. Stuff is good and stuff is bad, stuff gives me joy and stuff makes me miserable. I need to get stuff and I need to get rid of stuff. I understand and don´t understand stuff. Stuff is complicated.
So I organise and arrange stuff, try to find room for stuff. I sell stuff away, but then I buy new stuff. Stuff that can be a deal or a waste of money, stuff that gives me time and stuff that takes it away. I also need stuff to make stuff, books and magazines for collages, paint for painting, clay for sculptures. After I´ve made stuff I try to sell that away too, this time in an exhibition called Stuff.
Stuff is artwork and worth a lot in the exhibition but becomes a problem afterwards. After the exhibition, I once again move stuff and try to find space for stuff. And after I´ve rested a bit and found new stuff to think about, I start to make more stuff again. Stuff for me and stuff for you. More stuff to think about and more stuff for me to try and understand.
The making of this exhibition has been supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
