Jan Kenneth Weckman, a Finnish painter, draughtsman, and printmaker (b. 1946), will be displaying a collection of his drawings at Galerie Toolbox, Novalisstrasse 7, Berlin (Mitte), opening on Friday March 22nd, 18 PM.
Galerie Toolbox warmly welcomes you to the opening where the artist will be present along with Harri Sjöström, a renowned soprano saxophonist and a Berlin resident since 1985. Mr. Sjöström will perform his "Imaginary Sound-Pictures" interacting with the visual work of Mr. Weckman. This will be an exciting, vitalizing, once-in-a-lifetime experience you should not miss!
Hard Facts, a Closer Look, presents three ongoing series of drawings, two of which arrive from the erasing work of drawing, originally produced analogically, now digitally, in the format of pigment prints. In the series carrying the title of the exhibition, a narrative of science fiction fuels the changing view giving in to metaphors of consciousness and memory in transformation.
The works of Mr. Weckman cover a stretch from 1969 onwards. He has shown his works and participated in exhibitions in Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Norway, Sweden and the United States. In Germany, Mr. Weckman has exhibited works in Erlangen in 1982, Aachen and Bonn in 1988, in the Berlin Mengerzeile Artist Residence in 1998 and at the Berlin Finnland-institut in 2001. Mr. Weckman’s works have also been represented, since 1979, in the collection of Nürnberg City Museum (Neues Museum).
Jan Kenneth Weckman works in Turku, Finland. He had an extensive career as an art teacher at the former University of Art and Design in Helsinki, which is now a part of Aalto University. Mr. Weckman graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki in 2005 with a doctoral thesis on semiotics and the artistic work process. He has, in recent years, focused on his artistic work. His theoretical interests charge the artwork both in theme and form and influence the text written for the Hard Facts, a Closer Look show.
See also Jan Kenneth Weckman's home pages
and a more elaborate introduction to the exhition (pdf)