The ART Ii Biennale catalogue on Northern environmental and sculpture art is completed. The book presents Northern environmental art with the strength of ten artists. The main articles are written by art critic Otso Kantokorpi and environmental artist, Dean of the Faculty of Art and Design of the University of Lapland Timo Jokela. Kantokorpi asks whether periphery is a trend, and questions the power of the modern art centres. Jokela tackles the structures of Northern art, its mystical and mythical powers.

The other authors represent the top of their fields. Ph.D. Amy Dempsey is known as the curator of Tate Modern in London and as the author of Styles, Schools and Movements: The Essential Encyclopaedic Guide to Modern Art; Per Bjarne Boym has worked as the director of National Museum for Contemporary Art in Oslo and the Munch Museum; Anna Brodow Inzaina works as art critic for several Swedish magazines and is former editor-in-chief of Artes; Margr_t Elisabet Olafsd_ttir is art critic for the main TV channel in Iceland; Pirkko Siitari is the current director of Kiasma and Tuula Karjalainen the previous director of Kiasma. Researcher Janne Kauppinen of the Oulu Museum of Art, Greenland’s first gallery owner J_rgen Chemnitz, critic Shimasaki Yoshinobu from Tokyo and leading British craft theorist Glenn Adamson who works at the Victoria and Albert museum have also submitted their articles to the book.

The ART Ii Biennale catalogue presents the following artists: Sir Alfio Bonanno (Denmark), Eyglo Hardardottir (Iceland), Jenni Tieaho (Finland), Vladimir Zorin (Russian Karelia), and Maria Pan_nguak `Kj_rulff (Greenland), Linus Ersson (Sweden), Egil Martin Kurdol (Norway), Maruyama Yoshiko (Japan), Helena Kaikkonen (Finland) and Lars Vilks (Sweden) Works of these frontline artists can be seen in the cultural heritage areas in Wanha Hamina in Ii and around the KulttuuriKauppila Art Centre.

The publisher of the catalogue is KulttuuriKauppila Art Centre, and it has been realized with the support of Nordic Culture Fund, The National Council for Visual Arts, the North Ostrobothnia Regional Fund of the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Ii Valley Ltd, Oulu Museum of Art and the Valto Pernu foundation.

The work was realized for the promotion of Nordic cultural cooperation and for publicity for Northern art, and it is not available for sale. The book will be sent to main libraries, to the libraries of art museums and to international distribution.
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