Gallen-Kallela’s grandchild’s first personal exhibition gathers greater than 100 works from the artist’s life

Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s grandson Aivi Gallén’s artwork can be visible till the end of the week at Korkeakoski in Juupajoki.

Juupajoen Korkeakoski opened on May 18 Axis Gallen-Kallela grandchild Aivi Gallénin first own artwork exhibition. The retrospective exhibition brings collectively works from throughout his life.

“The exhibition functions greater than one hundred works from nearly 50 years, beginning in 1974,” say the owners of Wallenius Wapriik’s Galleria WW Hannele Eerola-Jämsén and Jasmin Jämsén.

According to them, maximum of the works cope with nature subjects, but in addition they encompass nonetheless lifes and photographs. Ten portraits were painted of well-known Finnish conductors.

“The big arched windows and the genuine milieu of the historic space convey their own taste to the exhibition”, describe Eerola-Jämsén and Jämsén.

Region is familiar to Eerola-Jämsén and Jämsén. The family has had a own family farm in Orivede, close to Juupajoki, and any other circle of relatives enterprise, Eräjärven Eerola, for over three hundred years.

Eerola-Jämsén and Jämsén are mother and daughter, who say that their family sold the previous Korkeakoski Shoe Factory, now Wallenius Wapriik, in 2019.

The gallery is called after its founder by means of Edward Wallenius by. Finland’s first industrial shoe manufacturing unit and later the Aaltonen shoe manufacturing facility operated within the building.

A member of a famous artist family, Aivi Gallén has committed a large a part of his life to managing the desolate tract studio Kalela and documenting the life work of his grandfather Akseli Gallen-Kallela. Gallén has edited numerous works approximately him.

Maalaten Matkalla Maailmalla exhibition is open until June 18 at Wallenius Wapriik’s Gallery WW. Entry to the exhibition is loose and it's miles open from Tuesday to Sunday from eleven am to six pm.

Aivi Gallén: Colorful Flower Field, Giverny, France 2006. Picture: Wallenius’ Wapriikki