ARTIST AND GRAPHIC DESIGNER JORMA HAUTALA
Jorma Hautala (photographer Lucien den Arend)
Jorma Hautala, studied at the Free Art School 1959 -1960, and the graphic
arts department of the School of Art and Design 1962 -1966. Hautala’s public
career began with Kunsthalle Helsinki’s Young Artists- exhibition in 1967. Since
then he has been involved in a wide variety of group exhibitions both at home
and abroad, and has also had several solo exhibitions.
Hautala’s art
has its roots in concretism. The stylistic constancy and consistency of geometric
idiom offers a medium to address issues close to his heart. Paintings are often
inspired by a visual problem and realize his subjective interpretation of color
and its meaning. In addition to paintings Jorma Hautala has made sculptures
and graphics. He has also co-operated with architects in the color design-related
projects. Public commissions include murals for the National Opera in Helsinki
and visual acoustics for the Music Hall of the House of Culture Korundi in Rovaniemi.
color scheme for housing - Malmi Helsinki Finland
(photographer Lucien den Arend)
Jorma Hautala is an active contributor
to the art world as a writer and lecturer. He has taught at the University of
Art (1971 -1972, 1977 - 1983) and the Academy of Fine Arts (1982 -1988). Hautala
was appointed Honorary Professor of Arts for the 1995 -2000 by the Arts Council
of Finland.
From Paintings to Color Designs
Encounters-seminar 26.4.2007
In his seminar speech Jorma Hautala discussed
the relationship between public art and architecture. Public art can create
the site a strong and trend-free identity. It may serve as a common memory,
and a social critique: "If successful, a public work of art may create an active
dialogue between the different time periods and the changing environment in
general, and thus bring a new historical layer. And when art is connected to
the current building practices, it gets a social cultural role. At the same
time it can create a new, missing dimension to its environment (10). "
color scheme for architecture Helsinki Finland
(photographer Lucien den Arend)
Art and architecture may form a functional entity, where the borders of
different forms of expression are blurred. In a contradictory relationship dialogue
is created through the absoluteness of dividing lines. The element of surprise
allows for far reaching thoughts: "Architecture usually seeks to be useful,
where as art is nearly always characterized by self-centered action. In the
intersection of these two regions one may reach an atmosphere of poetry and
spirituality and restore the environment with multidimensionality and humanity.
A public work of art may be physically minute, but of grand psychological effect
(11).”
Katariina Lipsanen
Sources:
Jorma Hautala gave this
lecture 27.9.2002 in the Art Places, the Meeting of Architecture and Art –seminar
in Kiasma. The lecture was published in the Taiteilija-magazine 4/2002 under
the title Private and Public – Contact Points. The translated quotations are
from that article.
Marjut Pitkänen, Kari Huhtamon Taidesäätiö ja Sari Väyrynen,
Lapin Yliopisto. Bulletin on the Encounters-seminar.
Merja Vehmas: Top artists
trust the idea of the world class university. Lapin Kansa 27.4.2007.
Encounters
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Kari Piippo
Lucien den
Arend
Jorma
Hautala
Yrjö Kukkapuro
Antero Toikka