{"id":19143,"date":"2025-08-15T15:48:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turuntaidehalli.fi\/?p=19143"},"modified":"2025-09-02T17:01:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:01:53","slug":"anna-ellmen-of-fables-iso-galleria-sept-5th-oct-26th-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turuntaidehalli.fi\/en\/anna-ellmen-of-fables-iso-galleria-sept-5th-oct-26th-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Ellm\u00e9n: Of Fables \/ Iso Galleria sept 5th\u2013oct 26th 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the exhibition opening on Thursday, Sept 4th, 6-8 pm!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Artist meeting on Turku Day, Sunday Sept 21st at 3 pm. Free admission!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The exhibition gets its theme from fables, the classic animal stories with a moral lesson.<\/strong> Fables are one of the most long-standing, most widely-spread traditions in the European culture. Everyone knows, for example, the story of the fox and the bitter grapes. Although sometimes seen as children\u2019s tales nowadays, originally they were not meant for children. Fables were read at universities, convents, and bacchanals, and they weren\u2019t edited suitable for children until the 18th century. It\u2019s been suggested that fables were first collected and written down by the Greek author Aesop (ca. 620\u2013564 BCE). However, it\u2019s not certain if Aesop even was a real historical person. Later on, there have been and still are repeated variations of these stories.<\/p>\n

“In addition to Aesop, the sources of my works include the Greek-Roman fabulist Phaedrus (ca. 18 BCE \u2013 56\u201368 ACE), the French fabulist Jean de la Fontaine (1621 \u20131695) and the Russian fabulist Ivan Krylov (1769\u20131844). My works are not intended as illustrations for the fables. Fables, by nature, transform over time, and my aspiration is to look at them from different angles and add my own interpretation to them. For this exhibition, I\u2019ve expanded my understanding of the concept of fable to include also animal-themed moral stories that are not based on the fables of the Ancient Greece. For two of my pieces, the process started from the animal characters of the German Brothers Grimm from the 18th and 19th century.”<\/p>\n

Anna Ellm\u00e9n<\/strong> (1981) is a sculptor from Turku. Her sculptures stem from cultural history, literature, mythical tales, and folklore stories, and they often discuss the relationship between man and nature. Ellm\u00e9n\u2019s main material is bronze. She has been casting bronze for 15 years, and casts all her bronze sculptures herself at J\u00f6\u00f6tti ry\u2019s foundry in P\u00e4\u00e4skyvuori, Turku. Typically, her works consist of parts that are cast separately and then pieced together. Ellm\u00e9n molds her works with wax she then casts in bronze. Her works sometimes contain also parts of plants and objects cast into bronze. Ellm\u00e9n graduated as a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Turku Arts Academy in 2014, and finished her Master of Arts with a major in cultural history at the University of Turku the same year.<\/p>\n

Ellm\u00e9n’s work has been supported by TOP Foundation, City of Turku, and Arts Promotion Centre Finland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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