Sing-along: EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2026 Sodankylä Iso Teltta)

Baz Luhrmann: EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (AU/US 2025).

Sing-along: EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2026 Sodankylä Iso Teltta). Hosted by Juhana von Bagh. Front row left: lead sing-along singer Marjo Leinonen. Front row middle: Antti Alanen and Laila Alanen.

AU/US 2025. PC: Authentic Studios, Bazmark Films • P: Baz Luhrmann, Jeremy Castro, Matthew Gross, Colin Smeeton, Schuyler Weiss. D: Baz Luhrmann. ED: Jonathan Redmond • S: Wayne Pashley • Copy: Finnkino • DCP • in English • sing-along subtitling in English • 96 min

    Track listing: see below.

    Helsinki premiere: 27 Feb 2026

    Sodankylän Elokuvajuhlat / Midnight Sun Film Festival (MSFF) 2026

    Sing-along event.

    Iso Teltta, 11 June 2026.

EPiC = Elvis Presley in Concert.

Kaisu Tervonen (MSFF 2026): "The hips of Elvis are still well worth talking about. Blending concert footage with documentary, Epic sees the virtuoso performer gyrate with such intensity that the audience’s sciatica twinges as their defences dissolve."

"When Australian director Baz Luhrmann was making his swinging biopic Elvis (2022), he combed through both unseen and familiar footage, eventually turning to two previous concert films: Elvis: That’s the Way It Is (1970) and Elvis on Tour (1972). Unused footage was also discovered, which Luhrmann restored for Epic. He utilised technology from the studio of New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson, who had previously used it for his three-part Beatles documentary Get Back (2021)."

"The result is dazzling both visually and aurally. Luhrmann spends the first half hour flashing his rapid-fire editing style to recap Elvis’s life, but the remainder of the movie is all about the hips, “Hound Dog”, big-band arrangements, “Burning Love”, the intimacy of the rehearsal room, “In the Ghetto” and a closing medley. The recordings are seen and heard with a clarity whose power is undeniable: whatever Elvis Presley was offstage, on stage he truly was the King. The crowd in the karaoke tent is his court for this performance." Kaisu Tervonen

Kaisu Tervonen (MSFF 2026): "Elviksen lanteista on syytä puhua edelleen. Konserttielokuvan ja dokumentin yhdistävässä Epicissä armoitettu esiintyjä vatkaa lanteitaan niin, että katsoja tuntee iskiaksensa ärtyvän mutta vastarintansa murenevan."

"Kun australialaisohjaaja Baz Luhrmann teki svengaavaa elämäkertaelokuvaansa Elvis (2022), hän kolusi läpi ennennäkemätöntä ja jo nähtyä materiaalia ja päätyi kahden aiemman konserttielokuvan ääreen: Elvis: That’s the Way It Is (1970) ja Elvis on Tour (1972). Niistä löytyi myös käyttämätöntä materiaalia, jonka Luhrmann restauroi Epiciä varten. Apunaan hänellä oli uusiseelantilaisohjaaja Peter Jacksonin studion teknologia, jota Jackson käytti myös kolmeosaisessa Beatles-dokumentissaan Get Back (2021)."

"Jälki häikäisee niin visuaalisesti kuin auraalisesti. Kun ensimmäisen puolen tunnin ajan Luhrmann näyttää sähäkkää editointityyliään kerratessaan Elviksen elämänkaarta, elokuvan loppuosa täyttyy lanteista, ”Hound Dogista”, ison orkesterin soundista, ”Burning Lovesta”, harjoitusten välittömästä tunnelmasta, ”In the Ghettosta” ja lopusta biisikimarasta. Taltioinnit nähdään ja kuullaan tarkkuudella, jonka todistusvoimaa ei voi kiistää: mitä tahansa Elvis Presley oli lavan ulkopuolella, lavalla hän tosiaan oli kuningas. Karaoketeltan yleisö on hänen tämänkertainen hovinsa." Kaisu Tervonen

AA: I considered Baz Luhrmann's Elvis (AU/US 2022) the best Elvis movie I had seen and also the greatest achievement of Baz Luhrmann as a director.

Luhrmann's first Elvis movie was a fictional biopic, Austin Butler playing the part so well. EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert is a compilation documentary. It is also great, and completely different. For sing-along purposes it is slightly too fragmentary. Even when songs are played in extenso, they are cut with inserts.

But we all had a great time in the biggest circus tent of Finland, lead by the rhythm & blues veteran Marjo Leinonen.

EPiC is a non-fiction biopic based on authentic documents and little known interviews with the entertainer himself. This is a contemporary view. We don't need or want varnish or polish. We can face the harrowing aspects of excess and abuse. Also the garish lack of taste.

Through this his soul goes marching on, fuelled by his biggest love affairs: first with his mother, and then with his audience. He gives all and wins all. In the purgatory of multiple addictions he never loses his ability to give a great performance.

The track list covers major periods out of chronology: the Sun years with "That's All Right (Mama)" and "Blue Moon", further early hits like "Love Me" and "Hound Dog", US Army years with "Are You Lonesome Tonight?", gospels like "How Great Thou Art" and "Oh Happy Day", civil rights in "In the Ghetto" and "Walk a Mile in My Shoes", heartfelt interpretations of great contemporary songs ("A Bridge Over Troubled Water", "Something"), psychedelic surprises ("A Change of Reality") and the late confessions "Always On My Mind" and "Suspicious Minds".

Singing along I was thinking about Marilyn Monroe, a contemporary, whose centenary we celebrated last week. Both were stars of a new generation with a frank, optimistic and life-affirming attitude, in tune with the New Frontier. Sex symbols maybe, but neither saw themselves that way. Both were All-American and embracing civil rights ideals.

More deeply integrated than before I felt the role of spirituals in the Elvis songbook. He was more than the sum of his contradictions, and the clash of the sacred and the profane may have been the most profound among them. The Swedish hymn "How Great Thou Art" ("O Store Gud", 1885) is one of the most popular worldwide, but Elvis's interpretation is by far the most powerful I have heard.

TRACK LISTING FROM WIKIPEDIA (incomplete)

No. / Title / Artist(s) / Length

1. "Can't Help Falling in Love" (EPiC intro) / Presley / 0:21

2. "Also sprach Zarathustra / An American Trilogy" (EPiC version) / Presley • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / 1:49

3. "That's All Right" (EPiC version) / Presley / 2:02

4. "Tiger Man" (EPiC version) / Presley / 1:41

5. "Wearin' That Night Life Look" / Presley • Jamieson Shaw / 3:12

6. "Hound Dog" (EPiC version) / Presley / 1:20

7. "Polk Salad Annie" (EPiC version) / Presley / 5:43

8. "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" (EPiC version) / Presley / 4:21

9. "Little Sister / Get Back" (EPiC version) / Presley / 3:04

10. "Burning Love" (EPiC version) / Presley • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / 3:22

11. "Never Been to Spain" (EPiC version) / Presley / 2:15

12. "Love Me" (Jamieson Shaw remix) / Presley • Shaw / 3:49

13. "I Can't Stop Loving You" (EPiC version) / Presley / 2:13

14. "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" (EPiC version) / Presley / 1:47

15. "Always on My Mind" (EPiC version) / Presley / 2:30

16. "How Great Thou Art" (EPiC version) / Presley / 2:51

17. "Oh Happy Day" (EPiC version) / Presley • Shaw / 3:11

18. "A Big Hunk o' Love" (EPiC version) / Presley / 2:06

19. "Bridge over Troubled Water" (EPiC version) / Presley / 4:14

20. "In the Ghetto" (Jamieson Shaw remix) / Presley • Shaw / 4:09

21. "Walk a Mile in My Shoes" (EPiC version) / Presley / 2:00

22. "Suspicious Minds" (EPiC version) / Presley / 4:50

23. "Bring the Curtain Down" (EPiC outro) / Presley / 1:10

24. "Can't Help Falling in Love" (EPiC version) / Presley / 1:56

25. "American David" (EPiC version) / Bono • Elliott Wheeler / 0:48

26. "A Change of Reality (Do You Miss Me?)" / Presley • Shaw / 3:10

27. "Don't Fly Away" (Pnau remix) / Presley • Pnau / 4:08

Der Traum von Lieschen Müller / The Dream of Lieschen Mueller (Olaf Möller Masterclass, Sodankylä 2026)

Helmut Käutner: Der Traum von Lieschen Müller / The Dream of Lieschen Mueller (DE 1961). Sonja Ziemann (Lieschen Müller), Helmut Griem (Jan).

Federal Republic of Germany © 1961 Gloria Film Munich • PC: Divina-Film • P: Ilse Kubaschewski, Georg Richter • D: Helmut Käutner •  SC: Willibald Eser, Helmut Käutner • Cin: Günther Senftleben –  VistaVision [according to Filmportal] – Omnimago [according to the DCP credits] • ED: Klaus Dudenhöfer • PD: Hertha Hareiter, Otto Pischinger • Cost: Margot Schönberger • S: Clemens Tütsch • M: Michel Legrand • Lyrics: Helmut Käutner, Willibald Eser • C: Sonja Ziemann, Martin Held, Cornelia Froboess, Helmut Griem, Peter Weck •  Print: Beta Film • DCP • in German • subtitles: English • 89 min

    Note: prominent in the movie is a huge billboard for a "Brigitte Bardot movie" called Ein Hemd steht leer [A Shirt Remains Empty]. No such film exists.

    Sodankylän Elokuvajuhlat / Midnight Sun Film Festival (MSFF) 2026 / Olaf Möller Masterclass, subtitles in English.

    Viewed at The School, 10 June 2026

Olaf Möller (MSFF 2026): "Lieschen Müller on länsisaksalaisen tavanomaisuuden perikuva: hän asuu mitäänsanomattomassa pienessä tuppukylässä, orpona ja naimattomana, pankin palveluksessa, vakioasiakkaana samassa lounaskahvilassa… Eräänä päivänä ilmaantuu muuan tri Schmidt ja esittää viehättävälle nuorelle neidolle tarjouksen: hän kutsuu tämän mukaansa maailmanmatkalle, liikeasioilla. Lieschen kieltäytyy kainosti, mutta kun hän nukahtaa toimistossaan ylitöiden uuvuttamana, elokuva muuttuu mustavalkoisesta värilliseksi, ja varhaisen länsisaksalaisen elokuvan jumala Helmut Käutner antaa palaa – seuraa yhtä laulua ja tanssia huikentelevissa lavasteissa kerrotussa paksussa tarinassa, joka sen kun paksunee joka perforaatioaukolla. Rahaa kuin roskaa! Maailman ympäri! Talousihmemaasta taivaaseen martineilla ja havaijinleivillä!"

"Käutner onnistuu sekä säästämään että syömään kakkunsa, sillä The Dream of Lieschen Mueller on yhtä suuressa määrin satiiria 1950-luvun Länsi-Saksan unelmista ja harhakuvista kuin oman aikansa hyväntuulisen ja loisteliaan elokuvan nec plus ultra. Toisin kuin monet kriitikot, Käutner uskoi, että yleisöä voi ilahduttaa samalla kun sille kertoo vähemmän imartelevia, ellei jopa levottomuutta herättäviä asioita. Tässä mielessä The Dream of Lieschen Mueller on esteettiseltä kannalta yhä aikaansa edellä." Olaf Möller

Olaf Möller (MSFF 2026): "Lieschen Müller is the epitome of FRG ordinariness: She lives in small, nondescript Dingskirchen, is an orphan and single, employed by a bank, a regular at lunch in the same diner… you get the drift. One day, a Dr. Schmidt appears and makes the charming young lady an offer: he invites her to travel the world with him, on business. Lieschen demurely declines, but when she falls asleep in the of. ice, tired from doing overtime… the film turns from black and white to colour, and early FRG cinema god Helmut Käutner lets it rip – all singing, all dancing, in extravagant sets made for a tall tale turning taller and taller by the sprocket hole. Big money! The whole wide world! Wirtschaftswunderland sky high on Martini and Toast Hawaii!"

"Being Käutner, the master has his cake and gets to eat it too, as The Dream of Lieschen Mueller is as much a satire of the dreams and delusions of the FRG in the 50s as it is a nec plus ultra of the era’s cinema in all its feel-good splendour. In contrast to many a critic, Käutner believed that you can delight an audience while telling it a lot of not-so-flattering, even disturbing things. In that sense, The Dream of Lieschen Mueller is aesthetically speaking still ahead of its time…" Olaf Möller

AA: In a musical, form becomes substance. A piece of escapist entertainment made of flimsy material transforms into a self-reflective metafilm about Sein und Schein / être et paraître / being and appearance.

Olaf Möller, the magician of discovering unknown treasures hiding in plain sight, compares The Dream of Lieschen Mueller with another major Helmut Käutner film from the same year, Black Gravel, a tough and merciless exposé of life under the age of reconstruction after WWII. The dreamland of Lieschen Mueller is in contrast to the realism of Black Gravel, but both describe the same condition: the spiritual void in the years of the Wirtschaftswunder.

The cheesy special effects of Lieschen Müller do not achieve the charm of The Wizard of Oz (which might be an inspiration) but resonate with Pop Art and anticipate the Music Television of the 1980s, Kenny Everett, David Mallet and Weird Al Yankovich. Failing to inspire awe, Käutner succeeds in parody and fun.

Helmut Käutner and Lieschen Müller celebrate the ideals of success, materialism and consumerism at face value like Frank Tashlin and Jerry Lewis, yet in the end those ideals turn into a laughing matter.

Käutner was a master of the cabaret film and also a master of humanism, even in the years of Nazi Europe in his "three film wonder" starting with Romanze in Moll celebrated by Henri Langlois. The same unfaltering dignity we find in the heart of Lieschen Müller, defying the cynicism of the brave new mercenary world.

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I have a fondness for film directors writing their own song lyrics, like Helmut Käutner here.

TJ28 / 28 Days Left

 

Yasmin Najjar: TJ28 / 28 Days Left (FI 2026). Featuring Yasmin Najjar.

FI 2026. PC: Aalto University, ELO Film School • P: Meri-Tuuli Varis • D: Yasmin Najjar • SC: Kasperi Riihimäki • DP: Nadia Farghaly • ED: Julia Matinniemi • PD: Sonia Gran • Cost: Satu Muurinen, Iiris Jämsén • S: Laura Torkkola • M: Laura Torkkola • C: Yasmin Najjar, Okko Alanne, Sherwan Haji, Mohamed El-Waber, Leevi Pellas • Copy from: Aalto University, ELO Film School • DCP • in Finnish and Arabic • subtitles in English • 24 min

    Sodankylän Elokuvajuhlat / Midnight Sun Film Festival (MSFF) 2026: Kotimaisia lyhytelokuvaensi-iltoja 2

    Viewed at Iso Teltta, 10 June 2026

Liina Härkönen (MSFF 2026): "Sodankylän elokuvajuhlilla on usein ollut ilo esittää Cannesin toukokuisten elokuvajuhlien Suomi-edustusta tuoreeltaan valkokankaalta. Niin nytkin, kun saamme nähtäville Yasmin Najjarin ohjaaman ja tähdittämän, militarismia ja diasporaa osuvasti peilaavan lyhytdraaman TJ28, joka valittiin tuhansien tarjokkaiden joukosta Cannesin La Cinef -sarjaan."

"Ohjaajan omiin armeijakokemuksiin perustuvassa elokuvassa Amani (Najjar) on vapaaehtoisen palvelusaikansa loppusuoralla saadessaan huolestuttavia uutisia isoisänsä kotiseudulta Gazasta. Amani yrittää keskittyä käsillä olevaan tehtävään, mutta armeijatoverien paikoin huoleton suhtautuminen taisteluharjoituksiin ja kanssaelollisiin kirpaisee pakostakin eri tavalla, kun läheinen on kaukana pahimman keskellä."

"Ohjaajan omat lapsuusajan kotivideot yhdistettynä Nadia Farghalyn upeaan metsäkuvaukseen tuovat asian kipeän ytimen lähelle vailla turhaa herutusta. Kun Aallosta tulee Suomen elokuva-alalle tällaisia maistereita, niin on synti ja häpeä, jos rahoitusta ei löydy." Liina Härkönen

Liina Härkönen (MSFF 2026): "Midnight Sun Film Festival has often had the pleasure of freshly presenting Finland’s representatives at the Cannes Film Festival on our silver screen. This is also the case now, as we get to see the short drama 28 Days Left, directed by and starring Yasmin Najjar. This poignant reflection of militarism and diaspora was selected to Cannes’ La Cinef competition out of thousands of submissions."

"Based on the director’s own experiences in the Finnish army, Amani (Najjar) is nearing the end of her voluntary service, when she receives worrying news about her grandfather in Gaza. Amani keeps trying to focus on the task at hand, but the mainly cavalier attitudes of her squad mates towards combat exercise and other living beings hit home differently when a loved one is far away facing the worst."

"The director’s own childhood home videos combined with Nadia Farghaly’s stunning forest cinematography bring the painful point home without unnecessary pathos. When the Aalto University’s Department of Film is providing such fresh talent to our film industry, it is a crying shame if we can’t get them funding."

AA: I saw Yasmin Najjar's 28 Days Left in the Aalto ELO Film School Spring Show 2026 Program II and was impressed. On second viewing, it is even more impressive.

The defense of Finland is based on national military service for all adult males. Service can be military or civilian. For females, service is voluntary.

TJ is military slang, meaning "tännehän jäätte" / "here you will remain". TJ28 means "28 days left". Thus we are in the final instruction period of the conscripts. In the middle of the final combat exercise.

Najjar's movie is a study in tensions, conveying a meaningful experience in "the fog of war". Night has fallen. Infrared devices are in use. There is confusion because an unidentified creature is glimpsed in the shooting range. The exercise is interrupted. Indeed, in the morning it turns out that a deer has become a casualty. 

The exercise is of a supposedly disciplined unit, but everyone is still just an undisciplined individual. Some don't take war games seriously and refuse to fully join the play. Yet the issues are serious. Live ammunition is a matter of life and death. A deer is killed, and the casualty could have been a human.

The conscripts are taking early steps in learning responsibility. Some are learning callousness, even imitating the notorious Abu Ghraib selfie pose with the carcass of the deer. The most conscientious soldier is bullied and harassed, even brutalized.

I feel alienated from the dialogue, with its mongrel "English" hodgepodge. I know that some young people now speak such a language which sounds in my ears like a poor parody.

Mobile devices are ubiquitous during the combat exercise. I understand the epochal turn in digital warfare in Ukraine, where a smaller nation has achieved a formidable might in resistance against the brutal bigger bully with an ingenious use of unmanned armed vehicles.

But here mobile devices seem to be for entertainment. On the battlefield one would expect 100% focus on the situation on the ground instead of drifting to virtual worlds of the internet.

Military life has changed a lot in a generation. Finland by now is multicultural, and women are becoming equal. The technology is very different.

The protagonist is a Finnish-Palestinian woman, completing her voluntary military service in the medical corps. During the exercise she has to deal with explosive tensions in her unit. That same night she learns that her beloved grandfather has been killed in a missile strike into a hospital in Gaza. She keeps calm until she cannot help bursting into tears.

Picnic – In Light Invisible to the Human Eye

 

Jan Ijäs:  Picnic – In Light Invisible to the Human Eye (FI 2026). Location 4: Nahal Oz Observers Memorial Monument. Dedicated to the female observer soldiers who were killed in the Battle of Nahal Oz during the 7 October attacks in 2023. "The best place to observe Gaza".

FI 2026. PC: Atalante Oy • P: Jan Ijäs • DP: Jan Ijäs, Ville Piippo - infrared - scope • ED: Jan Ijäs • S: Svante Colérus • M: Timo Kaukolampi • Copy from: Kinokki • DCP • in English • Finnish subtitles • 26 min

    Location 1: Kobe Hill. Location 2: Zikim Beach, Delila Beach. Location 3: Netiv HaAsara. Location 4: Nahal Oz Observers Memorial Monument.

    Sodankylän Elokuvajuhlat / Midnight Sun Film Festival (MSFF) 2026: Kotimaisia lyhäriensi-iltoja 2

    Viewed at Iso Teltta, 10 June 2026

Liina Härkönen (MSFF 2026): "Mitä jos sotiemme muistomerkeillä tehtäisiin yhä aktiivisesti surmatöitä turistien katsellessa? Tämä on todellisuutta Israelin ja Gazan rajalla."

"Palkittu elokuvataiteilija Jan Ijäs tunnetaan muun muassa Waste-sarjastaan, joka syventyi kunnianhimoisesti jätteen käsitteeseen eri kanteilta. Picnicissä Ijäs jatkaa kantaaottavan tarkkailevalla linjalla tarttuen tällä kertaa Gazan kansanmurhaan. Syyskuussa 2025 kuvatussa materiaalissa käydään rajaseudulla sijaitsevilla matkailukohteilla ja näköalapaikoilla, joille turistit retkeilevät ihailemaan Gazan maisemia. Kertojaääni kertaa matkalaisten aivan oikeasti nettiin jättämiä arvosteluja."

"Infrapunaherkälle filmille kuvatuissa maisemissa sodan kauhut nähdään vain etäisinä savupilvinä, mutta ihmissielun irvokkuus tulee sitäkin näkyvämmin selväksi, kun etuoikeutetut turistit valittavat haju- ja meluhaitoista, joita toiseutetun kansan kohtalo heidän piknik-kokemukselleen tuottaa. Timo Kaukolammen musiikki kruunaa hyytävän vaikutelman." Liina Härkönen

Liina Härkönen (MSFF 2026): "Imagine if our Finnish war memorials were still sites of active killing while tourists watched? This is the reality along the Israel-Gaza border."

"Award-winning filmmaker Jan Ijäs is known for his Waste film series, ambitiously tackling the concept of refuse from various angles. In Picnic, Ijäs continues on a politically observant mode, this time focusing on the genocide in Gaza. In footage shot in September 2025, we visit tourist destinations and look-out points located in the border region, where people travel to marvel at the view overlooking Gaza. The narrator recounts real-life online reviews by the travellers."

"Shot on IR-sensitive film, the horrors of war are but distant puffs of smoke on the horizon. Still, the grotesqueness of the human condition becomes all the more evident by the privileged tourists complaining about such things as noise or smells emanating from the plight of the otherized people, impacting their picnic. The score by Timo Kaukolampi completes the bone-chilling atmosphere." Liina Härkönen

AA: Jan Ijäs's Picnic is The Zone of Interest Part II. I believe Jonathan Glazer would agree with this characterization.

Tourists arrive on sight-seeing tours to witness mass murder on the other side from designated observation points and relax on a paradise beach by the border wall of Gaza. They update their online accounts and travel sites. They only complain of unpleasant noises and smells and minor imperfections in sanitation.

The film is based on their written records. Evidence for Nuremberg Part II.

Recently I have seen several topical movies about the Middle East, all from the Palestinian viewpoint, none criticizing Hamas, Hizbollah or the Islamic Government of Iran. Next I would welcome a series of such movies for balance.

Liian sininen taivas / Too Blue a Sky

 

Risto-Pekka Blom: Liian sininen taivas / Too Blue a Sky (FI 2026).

FI 2026. P+D+SC+DP+ED: Risto-Pekka Blom. S: Arttu Hokkanen • Narrator: Karoliina Vanne • Copy: AV-Arkki • DCP • narrated in Finnish • subtitles in English • 16 min

    Sodankylän Elokuvajuhlat / Midnight Sun Film Festival (MSFF) 2026: Kotimaisia lyhäriensi-iltoja 2

    Viewed at Iso Teltta, 10 June 2026

Liina Härkönen (MSFF 2026): "Risto-Pekka Blomin Suomessa ja kansainvälisestikin palkittuja lyhytelokuvia on nähty Sodankylässä useina vuosina sekä lyhytelokuvanäytöksissä että sunnuntain Leffaraadissa. Elokuvissaan Blom tarkastelee usein vähäeleisen humoristisella otteella näennäisen pienimuotoisista lähtökohdista universaaleiksi kasvavia allegorioita."

"Tässä elokuvassa keskiössä on 164 vuoden ikään ehtivä raakku, jonka elämänkaaren aikana ehtii tapahtua suuria, ihmiskunnan kannalta mullistavia asioita. Diktatuurien syntymät ja kuolemat tai huhutut maailmanloput eivät heilauta sen rauhaisaa eloa Hukkajoen pinnan alla, kunnes ihmisen ahneus koituu kohtalokkaaksi."

"Onko elämä vähemmän arvokasta, jos se ei piittaa ihmiskunnan vouhotuksista? Ja mitä maapallolle jää, kun sitä huolettomasti riistävät ja tuhoavat miljardöörit ovat haudassa? Liian sininen taivas toi ohjaajalleen maaliskuussa jo kolmannen pääpalkinnon Tampereen elokuvajuhlien kotimaisen kilpailun alle 30-minuuttisten elokuvien sarjassa." Liina Härkönen

Liina Härkönen (MSFF 2026): "Risto-Pekka Blom’s award-winning short films have been screened at several editions of the Midnight Sun Film Festival, both in our short film screenings and Sunday’s Leffaraati (Short Film Jury). In his films, Blom often takes a discreetly humorous look at seemingly minor subjects that grow into more universal allegories."

"Too Blue a Sky focuses on a 164-year-old freshwater pearl mussel, whose lifespan covers several events considered revolutionary to humankind. The emergence and collapse of dictatorships and rumours of apocalypse do little to sway the mussel’s peaceful existence in their home river, until the greed of humans finally proves fatal."

"Is life unaffected by human follies any less valuable? And what is left on our Earth, when the billionaires nonchalantly exploiting and destroying it are in their graves? Too Blue a Sky won its director the Main Prize in Tampere Film Festival National Competition’s under 30-minute category, already his third." (Liina Härkönen)

AA: Risto-Pekka Blom's award-winning Too Blue a Sky is a first person narrative from the viewpoint of a 164 year old river pearl mussel. An extraordinary concept but increasingly relevant in contemporary art. Eija-Liisa Ahtila has consistently pursued a view wider than the regular human-centric one. So does Ildiko Enyedi in Stille Freundin / Silent Friend, featuring a gingko tree. One of the all time greatest Finnish books is Puukansan tarina (1984) by Veikko Huovinen, a novel whose protagonist is an old forest. Risto-Pekka Blom's vision is the widest possible: global, universal, devastating, apocalyptic. He creates a mega-montage focusing on Earth Overshoot Days, turning points of Finnish history, the conquest of space, the rise of Vladimir Putin and the rape of Finnish forests, including our pearl mussel speaking in a feminine voice.

Sodankylän Elokuvajuhlat / 41th Midnight Sun Film Festival (2026) lineup

 

Sodankylän Elokuvajuhlat / 41th Midnight Sun Film Festival (2026) catalogue. Cover art: Victor Seastrom / Victor Sjöström: He Who Gets Slapped (US 1924) with John Gilbert (Bezano, circus rider), Norma Shearer (Consuelo, circus rider) and Lon Chaney (HE / He Who Gets Slapped, a clown / Paul Beaumont, scientist).

THE 2026 LINEUP:

À BRAS-LE-CORPS / SILENT REBELLION

AFTER EGO

AUTRE MONDE, UN / ANOTHER WORLD

AUTUMN LEAVES (c.m. 2025)

BAMAKO / THE COURT

BLUE HERON

BOY GEORGE & CULTURE CLUB

BROKEN ENGLISH

BÜCHSE DER PANDORA, DIE / PANDORA'S BOX / PANDORAN LIPAS

CALIFÓRNIA

CHERCHEZ L’IDOLE / FIND THE IDOL

CONVERSATION, THE / KESKUSTELU

DATNA ÈCLAT (c.m. 2025)

DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN / MISSÄ OLET, SUSAN?

DIFERENTE

E (Anna Eriksson 2025)

EGYEDEM-BEGYEDEM / ONE TWO THREE (c.m. Dóra Keresztes 2005)

EI PILATA JUHLIA PUHUMALLA KUOLEMASTA

ELLA JA KAVERIT: OPERAATIO SAUKKO / ELLA AND FRIENDS: OPERATION OTTER

EPIC: ELVIS PRESLEY IN CONCERT

ES GILT DAS GESPROCHENE WORT / I WAS, I AM, I WILL BE

EVERYBODY DIGS BILL EVANS

FOREVER… FOREVER (c.m. 2026)

FUGLAR (OG MENN) / AMONGST THE BIRDS

GELBE BRIEFE / YELLOW LETTERS

HÁN YÈ DĒNG ZHÙ / LIGHT PILLAR

HE WHO GETS SLAPPED / HÄN JOKA SAA KORVAPUUSTIT

HEREMAKONO / WAITING FOR HAPPINESS

HERR PUNTILA OCH HANS DRÄNG MATTI / HERRA PUNTILA JA HÄNEN RENKINSÄ MATTI

HOARDER, THE (c.m. Evelyn Lambart 1969)

HORS-SAISON / OUT OF SEASON

ISABEL

ISÄNPÄIVÄ / FATHER’S DAY

IT’S NEVER OVER, JEFF BUCKLEY

JE NE SUIS PAS LÀ POUR ÊTRE AIMÉ / NOT HERE TO BE LOVED / EI MINUA KUKAAN RAKASTA

JOSSAIN ON VALO JOKA EI SAMMU / A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT

KALEVALA: KULLERVON TARINA / KALEVALA: THE STORY OF KULLERVO

KANAL – KIROTTUJEN TIE

KAPPALE KAUNEINTA SUOMEA / THE BEAUTY OF ERRORS

KAUNIS RIETAS ONNELLINEN / HAPPY SASSY BEAUTIFUL

KID, THE / CHAPLININ POIKA

KILLING, THE / PELI ON MENETETTY

KOHAYAGAWA-KE NO AKI / THE END OF SUMMER / PERHETARINA

KOLME VIISASTA MIESTÄ / THREE WISE MEN

KRÓTKI FILM O MILOSCI / LYHYT ELOKUVA RAKKAUDESTA

LA POINTE COURTE

LATE FAME

LAULA MINULLE, ARJA / SING FOR ME, ARJA

LE HAVRE

LEHRERZIMMER, DAS / TEACHER’S LOUNGE / OPETTAJAINHUONE

LIIAN SININEN TAIVAS / TOO BLUE A SKY

LOI DU MARCHÉ, LA / THE MEASURE OF A MAN

LONG DAY CLOSES, THE / PÄIVÄ PAINUU MAILLEEN

MAD BILLS TO PAY (OR DESTINY, DILE QUE NO SOY MALO)

MAKING MR. RIGHT / TÄYDELLINEN KAVERI

MASTERMIND, THE

MER INTÉRIEURE (c.m. Giulia Grossmann 2024)

MINIRUSETTI (c.m. Anneli Nygren 1978)

MIROIRS NO. 3 / MIRRORS NO. 3

MY FATHER’S SHADOW

NAISKOHTALOITA

NARCISO

NINA ROZA

NON STUZZICATE LA ZANZARA / DON’T STING THE MOSQUITO

NUIT CHÉRIE /  SWEET NIGHT (c.m. Lia Bertels, 2019)

NYTOSHKA TA KOSHENYA / THREAD AND THE KITTEN (c.m. Valentina Kostyleva, 1974)

OBJET D’ENIGME (c.m. Chiara Caterina 2025)

ORAVA / SQUIRREL, THE

OZU DIARIES, THE

PETITE DERNIERÈ, LA / THE LITTLE SISTER / KUOPUS

PICNIC – IN LIGHT INVISIBLE TO THE HUMAN EYE

PLACEHOLDER (c.m. Teemu Nikki 2026)

PORTO

PRÉNOM CARMEN / ETUNIMI CARMEN

PRISCILLA – QUEEN OF THE DESERT / PRISCILLA – AAVIKON KUNINGATAR

QUEEN AT SEA

REISE INS EHEBETT / MATKA AVIOVUOTEESEEN

REMAKE

SBORMISTR / BROKEN VOICES

SHE-DEVIL / NAISPAHOLAINEN

SISU 2 / SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE

SMITHEREENS / RAKASTA MINUA, MANHATTAN

SNĔHULÁK / SNOWMAN (c.m. Hermína Tyrlová 1966)

SOUMSOUM, LA NUIT DES ASTRES / SOUMSOUM, THE NIGHT OF THE STARS

STELLA

STILLE FREUNDIN / SILENT FRIEND

SVEČIAS – THE VISITOR

TEISEL POOL METSA / ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WOODS (c.m. Anu-Laura Tuttelberg 2014)

TERAPIA / THERAPY

DÄUMELINCHEN / THUMBELINA (c.m. Lotte Reiniger 1954)

TIMBUKTU

TJ28

TRAUM VON LIESCHEN MÜLLER, DER / DREAM OF LIESCHEN MÜLLER, THE

TUOMARI NURMIO – 13 KYLMÄÄ LAULUA

VACANCES DE MONSIEUR HULOT, LES / RIEMULOMA RIVIERALLA

VIE SUR TERRE, LA / LIFE ON EARTH

VIE, UNE / A WOMAN’S LIFE (Stéphane Brisé)

VOICES (c.m. Joanna Priestley 1985)

WHOLE SHEBANG, THE (c.m. Ken & Flo Jacobs, 2019)

WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED (c.m. Renata Gąsiorowska, 2015)

ZOMBIE JA KUMMITUSJUNA

DVA PROKURORA / ZWEI STAATSANWÄLTE / TWO PROSECUTORS

ÄLÄ ITKE, IINES / GONE WITH THE MIND

Marilyn Monroe's Personal Library (Gail Crowther 2026 / from Christie's catalogue 1999 / alphabetized by Antti Alanen 2026)

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment (New York, 1952). Cover art by Henri Matisse. First Edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Cartier-Bresson to Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller. Item number one in Christie's catalogue.

MARILYN MONROE’S PERSONAL LIBRARY

Listed by genre in Christie’s catalogue The Personal Papers of Marilyn Monroe (1999). The categorization was organized by Christie’s for sale lots. Source: Gail Crowther: Marilyn and Her Books: the Literary Life of Marilyn Monroe (2026), pages 253–278. Edited in alphabetic order by Antti Alanen, 2026.

A

Agee, James: A Death in the Family (1957)

Alberti, Rafael: Selected Poems (1944)

Album of the Cambridge Garrick Club, The (1836)

Aldrich, Richard: Gertrude Lawrence as Mrs. A.

Alexander, F. Matthias: Man’s Supreme Inheritance (1941)

Alexander, F. Matthias: The Use of the Self (1955)

Almanach: das 73 Jahr by S. Fischer Verlag (1959)

Anderson, Maxwell: Joan of Lorraine (1947)

Anderson, Sherwood: Wineburg, Ohio (1919)

Andrews, Matthew: Let’s Make Love (1960)

Anglund, Joan Walsh: A Friend Is Someone Who Likes You (1958)

Anouilh, Jean: Antigone (1947)

Aristophanes: Two Plays: Peace and Lysistrate (1953)

Aristotle: Metaphysics (1949)

Aristotle: Theory of Poetry and Fine Art (1951)

Armstrong, Charlotte: Mischief (1950)

B

Bahâ’í Prayers (1957) [Bahâ’í, founded by Baha’ullah in Iran in 1863, is the most recent worldwide religion, monotheistic and ecumenic]

Bates, Marston: The Forest and the Sea (1960)

Bates, Ralph: Schubert (1935)

Beard, Rebecca: Everyman’s Search (1950)

Becker, Ivan Lawrence: The Vapor Trail (1959)

Beckett, Samuel: The Unnamable (1958)

Bedside Book of Famous American Stories, The (1940)

Bemelmans, Ludwig: How to Travel Incognito (1951)

Bemelmans, Ludwig: To the One I Love Best (1955)

Bessie, Alvah: The Un-Americans (1957)

Best American Plays: Third Series, 1945–1951 (1952)

Best American Short Stories, The (1960)

Bible, The

Blake, William: The Portable Blake (1955)

Bloy, Leon: The Woman Who Was Poor (1947)

Boothe, Clare: The Women (1937)

Boros, Eva: The Mermaids (1956)

Boulton, Agnes: Part of a Long Story: Eugene O’Neill as a Young Man in Love (1958)

Boussard, Jacques: London (1951)

Bowen, Elizabeth: A Time in Rome (1960)

Braden, Anne: The Wall Between (1958) [inside story from the civil rights movement]

Breslow, Paul: The Support of the Mysteries (1960)

Bristol, Claude M.: The Magic of Believing (1951)

Bristol, Claude M.: TNT: The Power Within You (1959)

Brockway, Wallace & Herbert Weinstock: Men of Music (1950)

Bromfield, Louis: The Rains Came

Bronson, Julien: Pet Turtles (1954)

Browning, John: The Poetical Works of John Browning (1949)

Buber, Martin: The Tales of Rabbi Nachman (1956)

Burns, Robert: Poems of Robert Burns, ed. Henry Meikle & William Beattie (1946)

Burns, Sheelagh: The Gingko Tree (1957)

Burrows, Millar: The Dead Sea Scrolls (1956)

Buttle, Myra: The Sweeniad (1957)

C

Caldwell, Erskine: God’s Little Acre (1933)

Campbell, Alexander: The Heart of India (1958)

Campbell, Joseph: The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology (1959)

Camus, Albert: The Fall (1959)

Camus, Albert: The Rebel

Carpozi, George: Marilyn Monroe (1961)

Carroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland ; Through the Looking-Glass ; The Hunting of the Snark (n.d.)

Cartier-Bresson, Henri: The Decisive Moment (1952)

Cary, Joyce: Mister Johnson

Catechism for Young Children (1936)

Cather, Willa: A Lost Lady

Cather, Willa: Lucy Gayheart (1935)

Cather, Willa: My Ántonia (1918)

Cerf, Bennett & Van H. Cartmell (ed.): Sixteen Famous European Plays (1943)

Chapman, John: Theatre ’53 (1953)

Chekhov, Anton: The Plays of Anton Chekhov (n.d.)

Chekhov, Anton: The Viking Library Portable Chekhov (1947)

Chekhov, Michael: To the Actor

Christman, Henry M. (ed.): A View of the Nation: An Anthology: 1955–1959 (1959)

Clune, Henry W.: Six O’Clock Casual (1960)

Colette: Short Novels of Colette (1951)

Colette: The Short Novels of Colette (1953)

Collier, John: Fancies and Goodnights (1951)

Collier, Robert: The Magic Word L-I-D-G-T-T-F-T-A-T-I-M (1940)

Conrad, Joseph: The Secret Agent (1955)

Corbett, Jim: Jungle Lore (1955)

Corbett, Jim: Man-Eaters of India (1955)

Corbett, Jim: My India (1958)

Cordier, Daniel: Jean Dubuffet (1960)

Corwin, Norman: More by Corwin (1945)

Corwin, Norman: Thirteen by Corwin (1949)

Corwin, Norman: Untitled and Other Radio Drama (1947)

Cost, March: I, Rachel

D

Davidson, Irwin & Richard Gehman: The Jury Is Still Out (1959) [case study of US legal system with seven youths in a murder trial involving a multi-ethnic NY gang, co-inspired West Side Story]

De Mille, Agnes: Dance to the Piper (1952)

Del Piombo, Akbar & Norman Rubington: The Hero Maker (1960)

Devi, Indra: Forever Young, Forever Healthy (1957)

Di Donato, Pietro: Three Circles of Light (1960)

Dickinson, Emily: Selected Poems (1924)

Dolci, Danilo: Report from Palermo (1959) [“Gandhi of Sicily” on post-WW Sicily, including Mafia]

Doresse, Jean: The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics (1960)

Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment (1950)

Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov

Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The House of the Dead (n.d.)

Douglas, William O.: Russian Journey (1956)

Douglas, William O.: The Right of the People (1958) [justice during the Cold War, by the most liberal justice in U.S. Supreme Court history and the longest serving]

Draper, Theodore: The Roots of American Communism (1957) [classic history of the American Communist Party]

Dreiser, Theodore: An American Tragedy (1948)

Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie (1927)

Dumas, Alexandre: Camille (n.d.)

Dunlop, Hazel Peckinpaugh: Flower Arranging for Fun (1959)

Durrell, Lawrence: Balthazar (1958)

Durrell, Lawrence: Justine (1957) first edition

Durrell, Lawrence: Justine (1960)

Dustan, Alice: Landscaping Your Own Home (1953)

E

Eddy, Mary Baker: Poems, including Christ and Christmas (1925)

Eddy, Mary Baker: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (1934)

Edman, Irwin (ed.): The Philosophy of Plato (1928) [from: The Republic, The Symposium, Apology, Phaedo, Crito]

Edman, Irwin: The Philosophy of Schopenhauer (1928)

Ehmann, K.: Christliches Vergissmeinnicht (n.d.)

Einstein, Albert: Out of My Later Years (1950)

Ellison, Ralph: Invisible Man (1952)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo: Essays

Evergreen Review. Volume 2. Number 6 (1958)

Ewen, David: Music for the Millions (1950)

F

Fast, Howard: Spartacus (1952)

Faulkner, William: The Sound and the Fury / As I Lay Dying (1946)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott: Tender Is the Night (1934)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby (1953)

Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary (1957)

Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary (n.d.)

Fleming, Ian: From Russia, with Love (1957)

Flender, Harold: Paris Blues (1957)

Form of Daily Prayers, The (1922)

Fowler, Gene: Good Night, Sweet Prince

Frazer, James G.: The Golden Bough (1940)

Freeman, Lucy: Troubled Women (1959)

Freeman, Mary: D. H. Lawrence: a Basic Study of His Ideas (1955)

Freud, Martin: Glory Reflected (n.d.)

Freud, Sigmund: Letters of Sigmund Freud, ed. Ernest L. Freud (1960)

Freud, Sigmund: Moses and Monotheism (1957)

Freud, Sigmund: The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

Fromm, Erich: The Art of Loving (1956)

Frost, Robert: Robert Frost’s Poems ed. Louis Untermeyer (1959)

G

Gallie, Menna: Strike for a Kingdom (1959)

García Lorca, Federico: Poet in New York (1955)

Gary, Romain: A European Education (1960)

Gatlin, Dana: Prayer Changes Things (1952)

Gaver, Jack: Critics’ Choice (1955)

Gellhorn, Walter: American Rights: The Constitution in Action (1960) [top ranking legal scholar]

Gibran, Kahlil: Jesus the Son of Man (1949)

Gibran, Kahlil: The Prophet (1950)

Gibran, Kahlil: The Prophet (1951) (duplicate)

Gibran, Kahlil: The Prophet (1953)

Gibran, Kahlil: The Prophet (1961)

Gill, Brendan: The Day the Money Stopped (1957)

Ginzburg, Benjamin: Rededication in Freedom (1959). Two copies. [against McCarthyist thought-control as a threat to American freedom]

Giovannetti, Pericle Luigi: Max (1957)

Glassner, John (ed.): Twenty Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre (1939)

Gorchakov, Edith: Stanislavsky Directs

Goudeker, Maurice: Close to Colette (1957)

Greene, Graham: Brighton Rock (1958)

Greene, Graham: The Potting Shed (1957)

Greenwald, Harold: The Call Girl (1958)

Gross, Milton: His Brother’s Keeper (1961) three-page extract from Reader’s Digest

Guthrie, Woody: Bound for Glory (1943)

H

Halldór Laxness: Independent People (1946)

Halliday, E. M.: The Ignorant Armies (1958) [US military in the Intervention Wars in Russian Archangel in 1918].

Halsey, Margaret: The Demi-Paradise (1960)

Hamilton, Edith: Mythology (1955)

Hamilton, Edith: Mythology (duplicate)

Harris, Mark: Wake Up, Stupid (1959)

Hart, Moss: Act One (1959)

Hatcher, Harlan: Modern American Dramas (1949)

Hávamál, The by D. E. Martin Clarke (1923)

Hecht, Ben: Miracle in the Rain (1943)

Heine, Heinrich: The Poetry and Prose of Heinrich Heine by Frederic Ewen (1948)

Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms (1932)

Hemingway, Ernest: The Sun Also Rises (1926)

Hersey, John: The War Lover (1959)

Holy Scriptures, The, According to the Masoretic Text (1952)

Horizon: A Magazine of the Arts. Nov. 1959, Jan. 1960, March 1960

Housman, A. E.: A Shropshire Lad (n.d.)

Hudson, W. H.: Green Mansions (1936)

Hughes, Emmet John: America the Vincible (1959) [advisor to Eisenhower and Rockefeller]

Hughes, Richard: A High Wind in Jamaica (1932)

Hugo’s Pocket Dictionary. French-English and English-French (n.d.)

Hurnscot, Loran: A Prison, A Paradise (1959)

Huston, John: Frankie and Johnny (1930)

I

Ibsen, Henrik: An Enemy of the People, edited by Arthur Miller

J

James, Henry: The Complete Plays of Henry James (1949)

Jameson, Storm: A Cup of Tea for Mr. Thorgill (1957)

Jeffers, Robinson: Medea (1948)

Jeffers, Robinson: Selected Poetry (1938)

Johnson, Osa: I Married Adventure

Jones, Ernest: The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud I–III (1959)

Josephson, Hannah & Malcolm Cowley: Aragon, Poet of the French Resistance (1945)

Joyce, James: Dubliners (n.d.)

Joyce, James: Ulysses (1934)

K

Kahler, Erich: The Tower and the Abyss: an Inquiry into the Transformation of the Individual (1957) [cultural historian]

Kandel, Howard & Don Safran: Stoned Like a Statue: A Complete Survey of Drinking Cliches, Primitive, Classical and Modern (1961)

Kanin, Garson: Blow Up a Storm (1959)

Kanin, Garson: Born Yesterday (1946)

Kany, Charles & Mathurin Dondo: Spoken French for Travelers and Tourists (1946)

Kapelner, Alan: All the Naked Heroes (1960)

Kazantzakis, Nikos: The Last Temptation of Christ (1960)

Kazantzakis, Nikos: The Saviors of God: Spiritual Exercises (1960)

Kennedy, Joseph A.: Relax and Live! (1953)

Kerouac, Jack: On the Road (1957)

Kersh, Gerald: Fowlers End (1957)

Kertzer, Morris: What Is a Jew? (1953)

Kopplin, Dorothea S.: Something to Live By (1948) [poems and aphorisms for a life in harmony by a Mother of the Year]

Kovacs, Ernie: How to Talk at Gin (1962)

Kunstler, William: First Degree (1960) [18 murder prosecutions discussed by noted DA]

L

Lambert, Gavin: The Slide Area (1959)

Lang, Daniel: From Hiroshima to the Moon (1959)

Lanyon, Walter C.: And It Was Told of a Certain Potter (1922)

Laurence, William: Men and Atoms (1959)

Lawrence, D. H.: Etruscan Places (1957)

Lawrence, D. H.: Selected Poems (1959)

Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers (1922)

Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers (1960)

Lawrence, D. H.: The Portable D. H. Lawrence (1959)

LeCron, Leslie & Jean Bordeaux: Hypnotism Today (1947)

Lee, C. Y.: The Sawbwa and His Secretary (1959)

Lembourn, Hans Jørgen: The Best of All Worlds, or, What Voltaire Never Knew (1961)

Lerner, Max: The Unfinished Country (1959)

Liebman, Joshua Loth: Peace of Mind (1946)

Lin Yutang: The Importance of Living

Love Poems and Love Letters for All the Year (n.d.)

Lowry, Malcolm: Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place (1961)

Lucretius: Of the Nature of Things (1957)

Ludwig, Emil: Napoleon (n.d.)

Lynes, Russell: Snobs (1950)

M

Mailer, Norman: The Deer Park

Malamud, Bernard: The Assistant (1957)

Malamud, Bernard: The Magic Barrel (1958)

Maltz, Maxwell: Doctor Pygmalion (1958)

Mann, Thomas: Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories (1956)

Mann, Thomas: Last Essays (1959)

Mann, Thomas: The Thomas Mann Reader (1950)

Markel, Lester (ed.): Background and Foreground. An Anthology of Articles from the New York Times Magazine (1960)

Marquis, Don: The Life and Times of Archy and Mehitabel (1950)

Martin, Peter: The Building (1960)

Marx, Karl: Das Kapital (New York, 1906) [milestone English edition]

Maugham, Somerset: Of Human Bondage (n.d.)

Maugham, Viscount: The Truth About the Munich Crisis (1944) [defense of appeasement]

Maugham, W. Somerset: The Summing Up (1951)

Maule, Hamilton: Jeremy Todd (1959)

Mawson, C. O. & K. A. Whiting: Roget’s Pocket Thesaurus (1953)

Maxwell, Elsa: How to Do It, or, The Art of Lively Entertaining (1957)

Maxwell, Gavin: God Protect Me from My Friends (1956)

McCarthy, Mary: Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957)

McCullers, Carson: The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951)

McGinley, Phyllis: Merry Christmas, Happy New Year (1958)

Menninger, Karl: Man Against Himself (1938)

Merritt-Farmer, Fannie: The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1951)

Michener, James: Hawaii (1959)

Millay, Edna St. Vincent: Collected Sonnets (1941)

Millay, Edna St. Vincent: Collected Sonnets (1959)

Miller, Arthur: En mands ansigt (1946) [Focus, 1945]

Miller, Perry: The American Puritans: Their Prose and Their Poetry (1956)

Milner, Esther: The Failure of Success (1959)

Milton, John: The Poetical Works of John Milton, ed. H. C. Beeching (1941)

Molière: Plays by Molière (n.d.)

Monsarrat, Nicholas: The Story of Esther Costello (1953)

Morris, Charles: The Open Self (1948)

Munro, Daniel Colin: Man Alive, You’re Half Dead! (1948) inscribed to Renna Campbell, MM facialist

Murphy, Joseph: The Miracles of Your Mind (1953)

N

Nannes, Caspar: Politics in the American Drama (1960)

Narayan, R. K.: The Guide (1958)

Nesbitt, Arthur: Say You Never Saw Me (1957)

New World Writing Number 16 (1960)

New York State Vacationlands (1959)

O

O’Casey, Sean: I Knock at the Door (1949)

O’Casey, Sean: Red Roses for Me (1944)

O’Casey, Sean: Selected Plays I–II (1950)

O’Casey, Sean: The Green Crow (1956)

O’Connell, Alberta: Strange Prologue (1960)

O’Kearney, John: Red Mirage (1958)

O’Neil, Russell: Jonathan (1959)

O’Neill, Eugene: Anna Christie / The Emperor Jones / The Hairy Ape (1937)

O’Neill, Eugene: Long Day’s Journey into Night (1956)

O’Neill, Eugene: Long Day’s Journey into Night (1959)

Odets, Clifford: Clash by Night (1942)

Odets, Clifford: Golden Boy (1937)

Odets, Clifford: Six Plays of Clifford Odets (1939)

Odets, Clifford: The Country Girl (1951)

Oppenheimer, George: The Passionate Playgoer (1958)

Oppenheimer, J. Robert: The Open Mind (1955)

Outpost Nurseries, publicity brochure

P

Paine, Thomas: Rights of Man

Paley, Grace: The Little Disturbances of Man (1959)

Pappenheim, Fritz: The Alienation of Modern Man (1959)

Parker, Dorothy: The Collected Short Stories (1942)

Parker, Dorothy: The Portable Dorothy Parker (1958)

Partch, Virgil: VIP Tosses a Party (1959)

Pasinetti, P. M.: Venetian Red (1960)

Pearson, William: A Fever in the Blood (1959)

Penguin Book of English Verse, The, ed. John Hayward (1956)

Piper, Watty: The New Little Engine That Could (1930)

Pirandello, Luigi: The Medals and Other Stories (1959)

Plutarch: Lives Vol 3-6 (of six) by William and John Langhorne (1792)

Poe, Edgar Allan: Poe: Complete Poems ed. Richard Wilbur (1960)

Poe, Edgar Allan: The Portable Poe (1957)

Poetry: A Magazine of Verse Vol. 70, no. 6 (1947)

Pollini, Francis: Night (1960)

Pope, Alexander: Selected Works (1951)

Portable Irish Reader, The (1956)

Proust, Marcel: Cities of the Plain (1955)

Proust, Marcel: Swann’s Way

Proust, Marcel: The Captive (1956)

Proust, Marcel: The Guermantes Way (1952)

Proust, Marcel: The Sweet Cheat Gone (1930)

Proust, Marcel: Within a Budding Grove (1951)

Purdy, James: Don’t Call Me by My Right Name and Other Stories (1956)

Purdy, James: Malcolm (1959)

Pushkin, Alexander: The Poems, Prose and Plays of Alexander Pushkin (1936)

Q

Quayle, Anthony: On Such a Night (1948)

R

Rabelais: The Works of Rabelais (n.d.)

Rand, Christopher: The Twain Shall Meet (1957)

Ratner, Joseph: The Philosophy of Spinoza (1927)

Reynolds, Quentin, Ephraim Katz & Zwy Aldouby: Minister of Death: the Adolf Eichmann Story (1960)

Rilke, Rainer Maria: Letters to a Young Poet

Rilke, Rainer Maria: Selected Poems (1957)

Robbins, Harold: The Carpetbaggers (1961)

Rodman, Selden (ed.): One Hundred Modern Poems (1953)

Rolan, Lina: Mujer (1961)

Rombauer, Irma S. & Marion Rombauer Becker: The New Joy of Cooking (1953)

Rosten, Leo: Captain Newman, M.D.

Rosten, Norman: Song for Patricia

Russell, Bertrand: Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare (1959)

Russell, Bertrand: Our Knowledge of the External World (1956)

Russell, Bertrand: Why I Am Not a Christian (1957)

S

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de: The Little Prince

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de: The Wisdom of the Sands (1950)

Saint-Exupéry, Consuelo de: Kingdom of the Rocks (1946)

Salisbury, Harrison E.: The Shook-Up Generation (1958)

Salter, Andrew: Conditioned Reflex Therapy (1949)

Sandburg, Carl: Biography of Abraham Lincoln 1–6   

Schaper, Edzard: The Dancing Bear (1961)

Scott, Paul: The Mark of the Warrior (1958)

Seghers, Anna: The Seventh Cross (1945)

Seltzer, Thomas: Best Russian Stories: An Anthology (1925)

Sephath Emeth (Speech of Truth): Order of Prayers for the Whole Year (1926)

Seymour, E. L. D.: The Wise Garden Encyclopedia (1938)

Seymour, E. L. D.: The Wise Garden Encyclopedia (1957)

Shakespeare, William: Sonnets, ed. Mary Jane Gorton (n.d.)

Shapley, Harlow: Of Stars and Men (1959)

Shaw, Bernard & Mrs. Purrick Campbell: Their Correspondence (1952)

Shaw, George Bernard: Selected Plays of Bernard Shaw III (1948)

Shelley, Percy Bysshe: The Poetical Works of Shelley, ed. Richard Wilbur (n.d.)

Short Story Masterpieces (1960)

Skira, Albert: Renoir (1954) [Pierre-Auguste Renoir]

Snow, Edgar: Journey to the Beginning (1958) [autobiographical about China before 1949]

Southern, Terry: The Magic Christian (1960)

Spencer, Hazelton: Elizabethan Plays (1933)

Spock, Dr. Benjamin: Baby and Child Care (1958)

Stanislavski, Konstantin: An Actor Prepares

Starkey, Marion: The Devil in Massachusetts (1950) [Salem witch trials, inspired Arthur Miller]

Steffens, Lincoln: The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens

Steichen, Edward & Carl Sandburg: The Family of Man (1955)

Steinbeck, John: Once There Was a War (1958)

Steinbeck, John: The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957)

Steinbeck, John: Tortilla Flat (1937)

Steinberg, Milton: A Partisan Guide to the Jewish Problem (1945)

Steiner, Rudolph: Some Characteristics of Today (n.d.)

Steinhardt, Herschel: Sons of Men (1959)

Stendhal: The Red and the Black (1953)

Stern, Daniel: Miss America (1959)

Stone, Irving: Lust for Life

Styron, William: Lie Down in Darkness (1959)

Styron, William: Set This House on Fire (1960)

Sullivan, J. W. N.: Beethoven: His Spiritual Development (1949)

Swarthout, Glendon: They Came to Cordura (1958)

Symonds, John Addington: The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti (n.d.)

T

Tagliabue, John: Poems (1959)

Tannenbaum, R. F. (ed.): Panorama: A New Review (1957)

Teale, Edwin Way: A Book About Bees (1940)

Terry, Ellen & Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence (1949)

This Week’s Short-Stories (1953)

Thomas, Dylan: Portrait of an Artist as a Young Dog (1954)

Thomas, Norman: A Socialist’s Faith (1951) [presidential candicate in six elections 1928–1948]

Three Famous French Romances (n.d.) [Daudet: Sapho ; Abbé Prévost: Manon Lescaut ; Mérimée: Carmen]

Thurber, James: Thurber Country (1953)

Tilden, Marjorie: Star Crossed (1947)

Tocqueville, Alexis de: Democracy in America (1958) Vol II only

Todd, Mabel Elsworth: The Thinking Body

Tolstoy, Leo: Redemption and Two Other Plays (1919)

Toynbee, Arnold: A Study in History (1947)

Turgenev, Ivan: Smoke (1951)

Twain, Mark: In Defense of Harriet Shelley and Other Essays (n.d.)

Twain, Mark: Roughing It (n.d.)

Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (n.d.)

Twain, Mark: The American Claimant and Other Stories and Sketches (n.d.)

U

Ustinov, Peter: Add a Dash of Pity (1959)

V

Vailland, Roger: The Law (1958)

Van Druten, John: Bell, Book and Candle (1951)

Vance, Randolph: Who Blowed Up the Church House? and Other Ozark Folk Tales (1952)

Varna, Andrew: World Underworld (1957) [pen name of an international smuggler who wrote about his experiences in the world of crime]

Vesalius, Andreas: De humani corporis fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body)

W

Wain, John: The Contenders (1958)

Waley, Arthur: Yuan Mei: Eighteenth Century Chinese Poet (1956)

Watkins, Sylvestre C.: An Anthology of American Negro Literature (1944)

Weaver, William: Duse: A Biography

Weber, Max: Max Weber (1954) [the American painter]

Webster, Gary: Codfish, Cats and Civilization (1959)

Weeks, Robert P.: Commonwealth vs. Sacco and Vanzetti (1958)

Wershub, Leonard Paul: Sexual Impotence in the Male (1959)

West, Mae: Goodness Had Nothing to Do with It (1959)

West, Morris L.: The Devil’s Advocate (1959)

West, Rebecca: A Train of Powder (1955) [murder trials, including Nuremberg]

Wheeler, Eleanor: Lidice (1957)

White, Theodore H.: The Mountain Road (1958)

Whitman, Walt: The Portable Walt Whitman (1955)

Wilde, Oscar: The Poems and Fairy-Tales (n.d.)

Williams, Oscar (ed.): The Pocketbook of Modern Verse (1954)

Williams, Tennessee: 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, and Other Plays (1945)

Williams, Tennessee: A Streetcar Named Desire (1953)

Williams, Tennessee: Camino Real (1953)

Williams, Tennessee: Orpheus Descending (1959)

Williams, Tennessee: The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1950)

Wilson, Edmund: A Piece of My Mind (1956)

Winnett, Ralph: Hurricane Season (1957)

Wolfe, Thomas: A Stone, A Leaf, A Door (1948)

Wolfe, Thomas: Look Homeward, Angel (1929)

Wolfe, Thomas: The Story of a Novel (1949)

Wolfe, Thomas: Thomas Wolfe’s Letters to His Mother (1945)

Wordsworth. Ed. Richard Wilbur (1959)

Y

Yeats, W. B.: Poems of W. B. Yeats

Young, Gordon: The Cat with Two Faces (1957) inscribed by Clifford Odets to MM

Young, Stark: The Flower in Drama and Glamour (1955)

Z

Zola, Émile: Nana (n.d.)

Zolotow, Maurice: Oh Careless Love (1959)

Ars 69 Helsinki (1969 exhibition at Ateneum)

 152. Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe in Black and White (Twenty-Five Marilyns), 1962, Photo: Albin Dahlström © 2018 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / ARS, New York / Bildupphovsrätt 2019. – Source of original photo: publicity for Niagara (US © 1953 Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.)

ARS 69 HELSINKI

Exhibition at Ateneum, 8 March - 11 May 1969.

Exhibition committee: chair: professor Aune Lindström.

Members: Marja-Liisa Bell, Mauri Favén, Aale Hakava, Pentti Lumikangas, Olli Närvä, Aimo Tukiainen. Vice: Aune Mikkonen.

Commissioners: E. J. Vehmas, Salme Sarajas-Korte.

Secretary: Leena Savolainen.

Assistant Secretary: Tuula Arkio.

Exhibition architect: Yrjö Kukkapuro.

The Ars 69 Helsinki exhibition in the spring of 1969 was my initiation to the stunning cast of artists on display and whole entire movements of contemporary art including pop art, kinetic art, minimalism, op and installation art.

On the day of the Marilyn Monroe Centenary, 1 June 2026, I remembered Andy Warhol, one of the artists shocked by her death in 1962. I was also still digesting the giant Alexander Calder exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton. My introduction both to Warhol and Calder took place at the Ars 69 Helsinki exhibition.

ALBERS, Josef

Bottrop, Westfalen 1888

Residence: Connecticut, USA

1. Sunnuntai / Söndag / Sunday 

1961  101,5 x 101,5

Oil on canvas

Galerie Denise René, Paris

2.  Pronssin värinen / Bronserad / Bronzed

1959  81,5 x 81,5

Oil on canvas

Galerie Denise René, Paris

ARAKAWA, Shusaku

Tokyo 1936

Residence: New York

3.  Nimeämätön / Utan titel / Untitled

1963  230 x 160

Oil on canvas

Galerie Alfred Schmela, Düsseldorf

4.  Kaavio n:o 3 / Plan nr. 3 / Alphabet Skin No. 3

1966-1967  113 x 366

Oil on canvas

Dwan Gallery, New York

7. Arman: Violin brisé (an early 1960s assemblage, an early entry in his lifelong Violin brisé series). Destruction as construction. Collection Sara Hildén.

ARMAN (Armand Pierre Fernandez)

Nizza 1928

Residence: Nizza, Paris

5.  Akilleen luuranko / Akilles skelett / Skeleton of Achilles

1960  70 x 50

Accumulation

Coll. Sara Hildén, Ateneum, Helsinki

6.  Kunnianosoitus Mac Mahonille / Hommage à Mac Mahon

1961  73 x 33

Accumulation

Coll. Sara Hildén, Ateneum, Helsinki

7.  Särjetty viulu / Söndrad violin / Destroyed Violin

88 x 74

Esinesommitelma / assemblage

Coll. Sara Hildén, Ateneum, Helsinki

10. Francis Bacon: Two Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer (GB 1968). 198 x 147. Oil on canvas. Collection Sara Hildén. My scan from the Ars 69 Helsinki catalogue. Please click on the image to expand it.

BACON, Francis

Dublin 1910

Residence: London

8.  Miehen pää n:o 1 / Manshuvud nr 1 / Head of Man No. 1

1960  36 x 32

Oil on canvas

Sir Robert and Lady Sainsbury, London

9.  Van Goghin muotokuvatutkielma 1 / Porträttstudie av Van Gogh 1 / Study for Portrait of Van Gogh 1 

1956  151 x 115,5

Oil on canvas

Sir Robert and Lady Sainsbury, London

10.  Kaksoistutkielma George Dyerin muotokuvaa varten / Två porträttstudier av George Dyer / Two Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer

1968  198 x 147

Oil on canvas

Coll. Sara Hildén, Ateneum, Helsinki

11.  Vuodesohvassa istuva mies, muotokuvatutkielma / Porträttstudie, man på en bäddsoffa / Study for Portrait on Folding Bed

1963  198 x 147,5

Oil on canvas

Coll. Sara Hildén, Ateneum, Helsinki

BAER, Jo

Seattle 1929

Residence: New York

12.  Nimeämätön (Diptyykki) / Utan titel (Diptyk) / Untitled (Diptychon)

1967  246 x 182

Acryl on canvas

Galerie Ricke, Köln

BOLUS, Michael

Capetown 1934

Residence: London

13.  Jännitetty jousi / Spänd båge / Bowbend

1964  122 x 163

Painted aluminium

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation / The British Council, London

14.  Lumpeita / Näckrosor / Nenuphars

1965  35 x 122 x 122

Painted aluminium

Tate GallDery, London

BONTECOU, Lee

Rhode Island 1931

Residence New York

15.  Kompositio / Komposition / Composition

1962  110 x 88

Welded steel and canvas

Moderna Museet, Stockholm

16. Alexander Calder: Martigues (1966 version 81,5 x 94,5 x 42,75 in.). Photo: Mutual Art.

CALDER, Alexander

Philadelphia 1898

Residence: USA, Paris

16.  Martigues (totem) 

1965  182

Sculpture. Stabile mobile.

Painted metal, rod and wire

Galerie Maeght, Paris

CANOGAR, Rafael

Toledo 1954

Residence: Madrid

17.  Sotilas / Soldat / Soldier

1968  190 x 100 x 45

Mixed media

Dr. Antonio Stame, Bologna

18.  Pari I / Par I / Couple I

1967  110 x 136 x 10

Mixed media

M. et Mme Plouvier, Anvers

CÉSAR (César Baldaccini)

Marseille 1921

Residence: Paris

19.  Kana / Höna / " La Pacholette "

1966  85 x 77 x 102

Bronze

Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris

20.  Esikaupungin voitonjumalatar / Förstadens segergudinna / Victory of Villetaneuse

1965  240 x 70

Bronze

Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris

21.  " Marseille "

1960  245 x 145

Bronze

Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris

22.  Monumentaalinen kompressio / Monumental kompression / Monumental Compression

1960  150 x 70

Steel plate

César Baldaccini, Paris

23.  Suuri peukalo / Stor tumme / Big Thumb

1966  195 x 90

Polished bronze

César Baldaccini, Paris

24.  Suuri rinta / Stort bröst / Big Breast

1968  220

Red polyester

César Baldaccini, Paris

25.  Valuva massa / Stort flöde / Great Swell

1967  151 x 110

Polished aluminium

César Baldaccini, Paris

CHRISTO (Christo Javacheff)

Bulgaria 1935

Residence: New York

26.  Paketoitu tuoli ja pöytä / Stol och bord i paket / Wrapped Chair and Table

1965  112 x 74

Mixed media

Dr. Heinz Hunstein, Kassel

27.  Kirjapaketti / Bokpaket / Newspaper Packet

1962  39 x 44 x 15

Mixed media

Coll. Giovanni Camutto, Venezia

28.  Tavaratalon julkisivu / Varuhusfasad / Store Front

1964  90 x 123 x 10

Mixed media

Galleria del Leone, Venezia

CHRYSSA (Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali)

Ateena 1933

Residence: New York

29.  Sarjasta "Linnut" / Från serien "Fåglar" / From the Series "Birds"

1968  60 x 71 x 43

Valoveistos / Light object

Galerie Der Spiegel, Köln

30.  Sarjasta "Portit" / Från serien "Portar" / From the Series "Gates"

[1964–1966] 56 x 89,5 x 29

Valoveistos / Light object

Ateneumin Taidemuseo, Helsinki

D'ARCANGELO, Allan

Buffalo, USA 1933

Residence: New York

31.  Nimeämätön 14 / Utan titel 14 / Untitled 14

1965  234 x 56

Acryl on canvas

Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris

32.  Ehdotus 2 / Förslag 2 / Proposition 2

1966  183 x 183

Acryl on canvas

Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris

D'HAESE, Roël

Grammont, Belgium 1921

Residence: Rhode-Saint-Genèse, Belgium

33.  Diderot

1965  156

Bronze

Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris

34.  Jalkapalloilija / Fotbollspelare / The Football Player

1967  100 x 40

Bronze

Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris

35.  Goethe

1967  213 x 63

Bronze

Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris

36.  Lentäjä / Flygare / Pilot

1966-67  250 x 55

Bronze

Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris

37.  Grammontin Kristus / Kristus från Grammont / Christ of Grammont

1968  140 x 33 x 85

Bronze

Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris

DINE, Jim

Cincinnati, USA 1935

Residence: London

38.  Robert Fraser sanoi minulle, että Ravi Shankar on maailman tyylikkäin mies / Robert Fraser sade mig, att Ravi Shankar är världens elegantaste man / Robert Fraser Told Me That Ravi Shankar Is the Chicest Man in the World

1966  183 x 244

Mixed media

Courtesy, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York

39.  Kuihtunut sininen sydän / Vissnat blått hjärta / Wilted Blue Heart

1966  152,5 x 101,5

Oil on canvas and collage

Courtesy, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York

DOBEŠ, Milan

Moravia 1929

Residence: Bratislawa

40.  Sykkivä rytmi VII / Pulserande rytm VII / Pulsating Rhythm VII

1968  241 x 274 x 70

Kineettinen valosommitelma / kinetic light composition

Milan Dobeš, Bratislawa

41.  Valon liike III / Ljusets rörelse III / Movement of Light III

1968  292 x 88 x 60

Kineettinen valosommitelma / kinetic light composition

Milan Dobeš, Bratislawa

DONALDSON, Antony

England 1939

Residence: London

42.  Puhtaus B / Renhet B / Purity B

1967  228,5 x 228,5

Acryl on canvas

Rowan Gallery, London

43.  Alex Glendale

1968  213,5 x 259

Lignitex on canvas

Rowan Gallery, London

44. Alex Brand Ave

1968  213,5 x 426,5

Lignitex on canvas

Rowan Gallery, London

GALLO, Frank

Ohio, USA 1933

Residence: Illinois, USA

45.  Rakkausobjekti / Kärleksobjekt / Love Object

1966  147 x 66 x 71

Keinohartsia / artificial resin

Herr Ferdinand Neess, Frankfurt

46.  Nainen rannalla / Kvinna på stranden / Standing Beach Figure

1965  165 x 48,5 x 36

Keinohartsia / artificial resin

Coll. Sara Hildén, Ateneum, Helsinki

GENOVES, Juan

Valencia, Spain 1930

Residence: Madrid

47.  Kertomus / Berättelse / Story-Telling

1968  80 x 200

Acryl and oil on canvas

Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York

48.  Vastakkaiset jalkaväenosastot / Infanterister i strid / Opposed Infantry Units

1967  160 x 150

Acryl and oil on canvas

Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York

49.  Taivas ja maa / Himmel och jord / Sky and Earth

1967  160 x 150

Acryl and oil on canvas

Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York

50.  Vanki / Fånge / Prisoner

1967  140 x 150

Acryl and oil on canvas

Courtesy Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York

HAMILTON, Richard

London 1922

Residence: London

51.  Adonis Y-olkaimissa / Adonis i Y-hängslen / Adonis in Y-Fronts

1962  61 x 81

Sekatekniikka / mixed media

Richard Hamilton, London

52.  Uneksin valkoisesta joulusta / Jag drömmer om en vit jul / I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas

1966  108 x 160

Oil on canvas

Richard Hamilton, London

53. David Hockney: Two Boys Aged 23 or 24. From: 13 Etchings for C. P. Cavafy's Poems (1966). Lehti: 63,5 × 50,7 cm, laatta: 34,5 × 22,3 cm, passepartout: 85 × 70 cm, viivasyövytys, osto, 7.10.1968, C IV 1567:2 Omistaja: Suomen valtio Kansallisgallerian kokoelma / Ateneumin taidemuseo Kuva: Kansallisgalleria / Nana Hietanen

HOCKNEY, David

Bradford 1937

Residence: London

53.  13 etsausta C. P. Cavafyn runoihin / 13 etsningar till C. P. Cavafys dikter / 13 Etchings for C. P. Cavafy's Poems [C. P. Cavafy = aka. Konstantínos Kaváfis]

1966  64 x 51

Ateneumin Taidemuseo, Helsinki

IKEDA, Masuo

Japan 1934

Residence: Tokyo

54.  Meri / Havet / Sea

1965  36,5 x 34

Kuivaneula, akvatinta / dry point, aquatint

Coll. Sara Hildén, Ateneum, Helsinki

55.  Sininen puku / Blå dräkt / Blue Suit

1965  40 x 36,5

Kuivaneula, akvatinta / dry point, aquatint

Coll. Sara Hildén, Ateneum, Helsinki

56.  Kukkiva puutarha / Blommande trädgård / Flowering Garden

1965  36,5 x 34

Kuivaneula, akvatinta, viivasyövytys / dry point, aquatint, etching

Coll. Sara Hildén, Ateneum, Helsinki

57.  Pyhät kädet / Heliga händer / Sacred Hands

1965  36,5 x 34

Kuivaneula, akvatinta / dry point, aquatint

Coll. Sara Hildén, Ateneum, Helsinki

58.  Sydämen sijainti / Hjärtats ställning / Position of Heart

1966  55,5 x 36

Mezzotinta / mezzotint

Masuo Ikeda, Tokyo

59.  Enkelin sanat / Ängelns ord / Words of Angel

1968  64,5 x 49,5

Mezzotinta / mezzotint

Masuo Ikeda, Tokyo

60.  Tähti / Stjärna / Star

1968  40,5 x 36

Mezzotinta, syövytys / mezzotint, etching

Masuo Ikeda, Tokyo

61.  Näköala ikkunasta / Utsikt från fönstret / Landscape from Window

1966  57 x 76,5

Litografia / lithography

Coll. Masuo Ikeda, Tokyo

62.  Eräs maisema / Ett landskap / Some Landscape

1968  49 x 57,5

Litografia / lithography

Coll. Masuo Ikeda, Tokyo

63.  Unelma kesästä, A / Dröm om sommaren, A / Dream of Summer, A

1966  75,5 x 59

Litografia / lithography

Li-Lan Gee, Tokyo

64.  Magritten taivas / Magrittes himmel / Magritte Sky

1968  57,5 x 49

Litografia / lithography

Li-Lan Gee, Tokyo

65.  Kengänpohjat / Skosulor / Sole of Shoes

1968  57,5 x 49

Litografia / lithography

Coll. Masuo Ikeda, Tokyo

66.  Omakuva Budapestista / Självporträtt från Budapest / Selfportrait from Budapest

1968  57,5 x 49

Litografia / lithography

Coll. Masuo Ikeda, Tokyo

67.  Sininen taivas / Blå himmel / Blue Sky

1968  53 x 73,5

Litografia / lithography

Coll. Masuo Ikeda, Tokyo

INDIANA, Robert

Indiana, USA 1928

Residence: New York

68.  USA 666 II

1967  260 x 260

Akryyli kankaalle / acryl on canvas

Galerie Alfred Schmela, Düsseldorf

70. Jean Ipoustéguy: L'Homme / Man (FR 1963). Bronze. The man who stands on his own three legs. Standord auf dem biomedizinischen Campus Berlin-Buch. My scan from the Ars 69 Helsinki catalogue.

72. Jean Ipoustéguy: L'Homme passant la porte / Man Pressing Through Gate (FR 1966). Bronze. The man who uses his own three arms to force himself through the gate. One of the nine copies. My scan from the Ars 69 Helsinki catalogue.

IPOUSTÉGUY, Jean

Dun-sur-Meuse 1920

Residence: Paris

69.  Suuri kyynärpää / Stor armbåge / Large Elbow

1967  65 x 40 x 23

Pronssia / bronze

Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris

70.  Mies / Man

1963  198 x 205

Pronssia / bronze

Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris

Coll. Sara Hildén, Ateneum, Helsinki

71.  Äyriäinen ja lintu / Krabba och fågel / Crab and Bird

1958  155

Pronssia / bronze

Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris

72.  Porttia työntävä mies / Man knuffande port / Man Pressing Through Gate

1966  200 x 128

Pronssia / bronze

Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris

JACQUET, Alain

Neuilly 1939

Residence: Paris

73.  Olympia

1966  114 x 162

serigraphy on canvas

Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris

74.  Thomas Eakinsin uimapaikka / Thomas Eakins' badställe / Thomas Eakins's Swimming Hole

1966-68  105 x 155

Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris

JONES, Allen

Southampton 1937

Residence: London

75.  Elävän mallin mukaan / Efter levande modell / Life Class

1968  81 x 57

Series of colour litographies

Galerie Der Spiegel, Köln

76. Edward Kienholz: Roxy's (US 1961). Environment. Detail. Photo: "David Zwirner is pleased to present Edward Kienholz's (1927-1994) renowned installation Roxys, 1960-61. First exhibited at Los Angeles's Ferus Gallery in 1962, this significant large-scale assemblage represents the first of the artist's environmental installations, or "tableaux" as he called them, and has been credited as being one of the earliest examples of what is now ubiquitously referred to as "installation art.""

KIENHOLZ, Edward

Fairfield, Washington 1927

Residence: Los Angeles

76.  Roxyn luona / Hos Roxy / Roxy's

1960-61  240 x 540 x 670

Ympäristökuva / miljöbild / environment

Dwan Gallery, New York

KING, Phillip

Tunis 1934

Residence: London

77.  Piste X / Punkt X / Point X

1965  183 x 188 x 152,5

Plastic

Rowan Gallery, London

78.  Läpi / Genom / Through

1965  213,5 x 335,3 x 247,5

Lasikuitua / hårdträfiberskiva / glass fibre

KITAJ, R. B.

Cleveland, Ohio 1932

Residence: London

79.  Mahler muuttuu poliittiseksi / Mahler blir politisk / Mahler Becomes Politics

1964-67

15 serigraphies

Ateneumin Taidemuseo, Helsinki

KLAPHECK, Konrad

Düsseldorf 1935

Residence: Düsseldorf

80. Vapauden kynnyksellä / På frihetens tröskel / On the Threshold of Liberty

1965  100 x 90

Oil on canvas

Städtische Kunstsammlung, Gelsenkirchen

81.  Seksipommi ja hänen seuralaisensa / Sexbomben och hennes ledsagare / Sex Bomb and Her Partner

1963  89 x 69,5

Oil on canvas

Von Der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal-Elberfeld

82.  Hallitsija / Härskaren / Ruler

1966  170 x 150

Oil on canvas

Mme Renée Lachowsky, Bruxelles

KLASEN, Peter

Lübeck 1935

Residence: Paris

83.  Kuuntelija / Lyssnare / Listener

1968  116 x 89

Acryl on canvas

Galerie Mathias Fels & Cie, Paris

84.  Suuri lavuaari ja kolme katkaisijaa / Stort tvättställe och tre avbrytare / Large Washstand and Three Switches

Acryl on canvas

Galerie Mathias Fels & Cie, Paris

85.  Kasvotusten / Ansikte mot ansikte / Face to Face

1967  73 x 60

Acryl on canvas

Konsuli Simo Kuntsi, Helsinki

87. Yves Klein: Portrait relief d'Arman (FR 1962). PR 1. Pigment pur et résine synthétique sur bronze monté sur panneau recouvert de feuilles d'or. 176 x 94 x 26 cm. The model is the sculptor Arman (Armand Fernandez). Yves, Armand and Claude were members of the group "Triangle". My scan from the Ars 69 Helsinki catalogue. In his monochrome quest Klein selected extremely saturated ultramarine blue which he called IKB (International Klein Blue / Bleu de Klein). The colour inspired Domenico Modugno's song "Nel blu dipindo di blu" ("Volare") (IT 1958, lyr. Domenico Modugno & Franco Migliacci, comp. Domenico Modugno). © Succession Yves Klein c/o ADAGP, Paris.

KLEIN, Yves

* Nizza 1928, † Paris 1962

87.  Arman, sinistä ja kultaa / Arman, blått och guld / Arman, Blue and Gold

1962  176 x 95

Portrait relief

Alexandre Iolas Inc. New York, Genève, Paris, Milan, Rome

88. Antropografia / Antropografi / Antropography

119 x 80

Painojälki / avtryck / print

Nude homan bodies as "living brushes"

Imprint of human body

Mme Rotraud Klein, Paris

89.  Tulimaalaus / Eldmålning / Firepainting

1962  119 x 79,5

Peinture de feu

Imprint of fire

Paper sheets or Swedish compressed cardboard exposed to Bunsen burners

Mme Rotraud Klein, Paris

90.  Kosmogonia / Kosmogoni / Cosmogony

1961  104 x 75

Empreintes de la pluie et du vent sur la toile

Mme Rotraud Klein, Paris

91.  Monokromia / Monokromi / Monochrome

40 x 139

Peinture monochrome

Mme Rotraud Klein, Paris

KOLÁŘ, Jiří

Czechoslovakia 1914

Residence: Prague

92.  Collage

100,5 x 70

Dipl. arkkit. Juhani Pallasmaa, Helsinki

93.  Collage

80 x 60

Dipl. arkkit. Juhani Pallasmaa, Helsinki

94.  Kirjeitä taivaasta / Brev från himmeln / Letters from Heaven

100,5 x 70

Collage

Dipl. arkkit. Reijo Lahtinen, Helsinki

95.  Ukko Nooa / Gubben Noa / Father Noah

80 x 60

Collage

Dipl. arkkit. Reijo Lahtinen, Helsinki

96.  Collage

99 x 80

Collage

Dipl. arkkit. Reijo Lahtinen, Helsinki

KOWALSKI, Piotr

Lwow 1927

Residence: Paris

97.  Pyramidi n:o 4 / Pyramid nr. 4 / Pyramid No. 4

1967  235 (290 x 290 x 290)

Steel and plexiglass

Galerie Givaudan, Paris

98.  Kuutio n:o 3 / Kub nr. 3 / Cube No. 3

1968  225 x 225 x 225

Steel and plexiglass

Galerie Givaudan, Paris

KRAMER, Harry

Lingen, Germany 1925

Residence: Paris

99.  Tuulimylly keskustelee itsensä kanssa / Väderkvarn i samtal med sig själv / Windmill Talking to Itself

75 x 55 x 33

Kineettinen sommitelma / kinetisk komposition / kinetic composition

Coll. Sara Hildén, Ateneum, Helsinki

103. Nicholas Krushenick: Flying Zonk (US 1967). Nicholas Krushenick was the father of Abstract Pop.

KRUSHENICK, Nicholas

New York 1929

Residence: New York

100.  Napaseudun valkoinen / Polar vitt / Polar White

1967  244 x 185,5

Liquitex puulle / Liquitex på trä / Liquitex on wood

Harry N. Abrams Family Collection, New York

101.  Lopullinen puhdistus / Den sista reningen / The Final Rinse

1966  116 x 88

Collage

Galerie Der Spiegel, Köln

102.  Lentävä "pam" / Flygande "pam" / Flying Zonk

1967  101 x 81

Tempera, collage

Galerie Der Spiegel, Köln

103. Julio Le Parc: Continuel-lumière avec formes en contorsion / Form of Contortion in Continuous Light, 1966. Bois peint, métal, plastique, moteurs et lumière / wood, plastic, stainless steel and electric motor, lumino-kinetic sculpture 151 x 122 x 28 cm. Sara Hildén Foundation. Photo Jussi Koivunen. © Kuvasto 2022

105. Julio Le Parc: Forme en contorsion sur trame (FR 1966). Bois, métal, sérigraphie, moteur, peinture. 163 x 103 x 16 cm. CoLL MET, New York, donation de l'artiste. Photo from: Julio-Le-Parc.com.

LE PARC, Julio

Mendoza, Argentina 1928

Residence: Paris

103.  Taivutetun muodon heijastamia valoja / Ljusreflexer av böjd form / Form of Contorsion in Continuous Light

1966  122 x 152 x 25

Valomobile / ljusmobile / light mobile

Coll. Sara Hildén, Ateneum, Helsinki

104.  Katsojan liikunnan mukaan syntyviä muotoja / Former uppstående enligt åskådarens rörelser / Forms in Accordance with the Movements of the Spectator

1966  203 x 240 x 30

Kineettinen sommitelma / kinetisk komposition / kinetic composition

Coll. Sara Hildén, Ateneum, Helsinki

105.  Forme en contorsion sur trame / Kiertyviä muotoja / Roterande former / Forms in Contorsion

1966  123 x 123 x 20

Kineettinen sommitelma / kinetisk komposition / kinetic composition

Galerie Denise René, Paris

106.  Jatkuva valkoinen liike / Kontinuerlig vit rörelse / Continuous White Mobile

100 x 100 x 10

Kineettinen sommitelma / kinetisk komposition / kinetic composition

Galerie Denise René, Paris

107.  N:o 23, valon jatkuva liike / Nr. 23, ljusets kontinuerliga rörelse / No. 23, Continuous Light Mobile

1968  100 x 100 x 11

Valomobile, multippeli / ljusmobile, multippel / light mobile, multiple

Galerie Denise René, Paris

108.  Valosylinteri / Ljuscylinder / Light Cylinder

1962-66  82 x 62 x 17

Valomobile, multippeli / ljusmobile, multippel / light mobile, multiple

Coll. Sara Hildén, Ateneum, Helsinki

109. Roy Lichtenstein: Original Poster for the American Pop Art Exhibition at Moderna Museet 1964 (US 1964). Poster for the first European exhibition of pop art, "American Pop Art: 106 Forms of Love and Despair", 29 Feb-12 April 1964, Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné.

109. Roy Lichtenstein: original art for the Poster for the American Pop Art Exhibition at Moderna Museet 1964 (US 1964). The rasterized stage. My scan from the Ars 69 Helsinki catalogue. On the homepage of Moderna Museet, pre-rasterized art is on display.

LICHTENSTEIN, Roy

New York 1923

Residence: New Jersey

109. Originaalijuliste amerikkalaisen poptaiteen näyttelyyn Moderna Museetissa 1963 / Originalplakat till utställningen av amerikansk popkonst i Moderna Museet 1963 / Original Poster for the American Pop Art Exhibition at Moderna Museet 1963

1963  100 x 70

Tussipiirustus / tusch / Indian ink

Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Jos Manders: Object 12 (BE 1968). My scan from the Ars 69 Helsinki catalogue. There is no caption in the photo. It might also be Object 13.

MANDERS, Jos

Eindhoven 1932

Residence: Bergeijk, Netherlands

110.  Objekti 12 / Objekt 12 / Object 12

1968  180 x 120

P.v.c., polyester

Jos Manders, Bergeijk

111.  Objekti 13 / Objekt 13 / Object 13

1969  240 x 120

P.v.c., polyester

Jos Manders, Bergeijk

 

112. Marisol: Mi Mama y Yo (US 1968). Painted bronze and aluminium pole. 185,42 x 142,24 x 142,24. Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Bequest of Marisol, 2016. 2018:15a-d. © Estate of Marisol / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

MARISOL Escobar [born Maria Sol Escobar, known as Marisol, family name Escobar]

Paris 1930

Residence: New York (citizen of Venezuela)

112.  Äitini ja minä / Min mor och jag / My Mother and I

1968  185,5 x 142,5

Steel and bronze

Courtesy Sidney Janis Gallery, New York

113.  Auringonpalvojat / Solbadare / The Sunbathers

1967  226 x 96,5 x 101,5

Sekatekniikka / blandteknik / mixed media

Courtesy Sidney Janis Gallery, New York

114. Tomio Miki: Ear, Mirror 2 (JP 1967). My scan from the Ars 69 Helsinki catalogue.

MIKI, Tomio

Tokyo 1937

Residence: Tokyo

114.  Korva, peili 2 / Öra, spegel 2 / Ear, Mirror 2

1967  305 x 144 x 260

Plastic and stainless steel

Tomio Miki, Tokyo

115.  Korva 1967 / Öra 1967 / Ear 1967

1967  218 x 280 x 280

Kromattua terästä ja polyesteriä / förkromat stål och polyester / chrome-plated steel and polyester

Conte, Dr. Paolo Marinotti, Venezia

Claes Oldenburg: Ping-Pong Table (US 1964). Photo: Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

OLDENBURG, Claes

Stockholm 1929

Residence: New York

116.  Ping-pong pöytä / Ping-pong bord / Ping-Pong Table

1964  97,5 x 135 x 210

Kipsiä, puuta ja metallia / gips, trä och metall / plaster, wood and metal

Moderna Museet, Stockholm

117.  Lontoon polvet / London knän / London Knees

1966  39

Muovimultippeli / plastmultippel / plastic multiple

Jan-Olof Mallander, Helsinki

120. Eduardo Paolozzi: Cyclops (GB 1957). © The Eduardo Paolozzi Foundation. Tate.  

PAOLOZZI, Eduardo

Edinburgh 1924

Residence: London

118.  Pan Am

1966 143,5 x 332,5 x 99

Painted aluminium

Hanover Gallery, London

119.  Guemp

1967  114,5 x 54,5 x 65

Metallia / metal / metal

Hanover Gallery, London

120.  Kyklooppi / Cyklop / Cyclops

1957  110 x 30,5 x 20,5

Bronze

Tate Gallery, London

121. Luc Peire: Environment I (1966). Luc Peire: ‘It is not a single link in my work, but a pole to which the chain with all its links is attached. It is the work that most explicitly portrays my endeavours.’ I am not sure that this is the very Environment which was on display at Ars 69 Helsinki, but at it is similar.

PEIRE, Luc

Brügge / Bruges 1916

Residence: Paris

121. Tila / Rum / Environment

1965-1967  350 x 350 (280)

Maalattua formicaa ja peiliä / målat formica och spegel / painted formica and mirror

Luc Peire, Paris

123. Michelangelo Pistoletto: Seated Man (IT 1962-1964). My scan from the Ars 69 Helsinki catalogue.

PISTOLETTO, Michelangelo

Biella, Italia 1933

Residence: Torino / Turin

122.  Tikkaat / Trappa / The Staircase

1964  200 x 100

Steel and photographs

Galleria del Leone, Venezia

123.  Istuva mies / Sittande man / Seated Man

1962-1964  130 x 100

Steel and painted photographs

Coll. Giovanni Camutti, Venezia

124.  Kiilakehys / Kilram / Chassis

1964  200 x 100

Steel and painted photographs

Coll. Giovanni Camutti, Venezia

125. Martial Raysse: France verte / Grönt Frankrike (FR 1964). Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

RAYSSE, Martial

Golfe-Juan, France 1936

125.  Vihreä France / Grön France / Green France

1964  155 x 100

Painting with neon applications

Moderna Museet, Stockholm

126.  Bridget Riley: Fall (GB 1963). Tate Gallery, London. © Bridget Riley 2026. Tate Gallery: "Here, Bridget Riley repeats a single curving line to create varying optical frequencies that distort and confuse space. Since 1960, she has been exploring the visual sensation of looking, experimenting with the dynamic potential of optical effects. Riley mostly works with the contrast of black and white, occasionally introducing different tones of grey. Of this work, she said: ‘I try to organise a field of visual energy which accumulates until it reaches maximum tension.’"  Polyvinyl acetate paint on hardboard. 1410 x 1403 mm. Purchased 1963. Reference T00616. Catalogue entry T00616 FALL 1963.

RILEY, Bridget

London 1931

Residence: London

126.  Putous / Fall / Fall

1963  141 x 140,5

Emulsio kovalevylle / emulsion på duk / emulsion on hardboard

Tate Gallery, London

127.  Pysähdys I / Avstannande I / Arrest I

1969  178 x 175

Emulsio kankaalle / emulsion på duk / emulsion on canvas

The Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, London

128.  Vesiputous 4 / Katarakt 4 / Cataract 4

1967  221 x 223,5

Emulsio kankaalle / emulsion på duk / emulsion on canvas

Ulster Museum, Belfast

129.  Yhdeksäntoista harmaata sävyä / Nitton grå toner / Nineteen Greys

1968  76 x 76

4 serigraphies

Coll. Sara Hildén, Ateneum, Helsinki

132. Nicolas Schöffer: The Great Prism (FR 1968). Sara Hildén Foundation Collection.

SCHÖFFER, Nicolas

Kaloosa, Hungary 1912

Residence: Paris

130.  Chronos 7

172 x 162

Kinetic composition

Galerie Denise René, Paris

131.  Microtemps

80 x 16

Kinetic light composition

Galerie Denise René, Paris

132.  Suuri prisma / Det stora prismat / The Great Prisme

1968  310 x 310

Kinetic light composition

Galerie Denise René, Paris

133.  Luminoscope

24 x 29 x 22

Kinetic light composition

Galerie Denise René, Paris

134.  Lux II

65 x 72 x 60

1Kinetic composition

Galerie Denise René, Paris

135. George Segal: Legend of Lot (US 1966). Plaster. My scan from the Ars 69 Helsinki catalogue.

SEGAL, George

New York City 1924

Residence: New Jersey

135. Lootin legenda / Legenden om Lot / Legend of Lot

1966  274 x 243 x 182

Kipsiä / gips / plaster

Courtesy, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York

137. Tony Smith: Wandering Rocks (US 1967). Stainless steel. My scan from the Ars 69 Helsinki catalogue.

SMITH, Tony

South Orange, USA 1912

Residence: New Jersey

137.  Vaeltavat paadet / Vandrande stenar / Wandering Rocks

1967

Ruostumatonta terästä / rostfritt stål / stainless steel

Galerie Müller, Stuttgart

138. Jesús Raphael Soto: Virtual Space (FR 1965). Wood and metal. My scan from the Ars 69 Helsinki catalogue.

SOTO, Jésus Raphael

Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela 1923

Residence: Paris

138.  Näennäiset avaruudet / Virtuella rymder / Virtual Space

1965  156 x 106

Wood and metal

Moderna Museet, Stockholm

139.  Sinistä ja mustaa / Blått och svart / Blue and Black

1969  169 x 105

Galerie Denise René, Paris

140.  Punaista ja hopeaa valkoisella / Rött och silver på vitt / Red and Silver on White

1969  169 x 105

Galerie Denise René, Paris

141.  Kanada / Canada

1967  157 x 158

Galerie Denise René, Paris

142. Kumi Sugai: Blue (JP 1967). Oil on canvas. My scan from the Ars 69 Helsinki catalogue.

SUGAI, Kumi

Kobe, Japan 1919

Residence: Paris

142.  Blue

1967  200 x 180

Oil on canvas

Coll. Sara Hildén, Ateneum, Helsinki

143.  Suuri järvi / Stor sjö / Large Lake

1967  245 x 300

Oil on canvas

Kumi Sugai, Paris

144.  Vihreä aurinko / Grön sol / Green Sun

1969  245 x 330

Oil on canvas

Kumi Sugai, Paris

145. Jiro Takamatsu: Perspective Dimension (Sky) (JP 1968). Plastic paint on wood. My scan from the Ars 69 Helsinki catalogue.

TAKAMATSU, Jiro

Tokyo, Japan 1936

Residence: Tokyo

145.  Perspektiivinen ulottuvuus (taivas) / Dimension i perspektiv (himmel) / Perspective Dimension (Sky)

1968  249 x 398 x 369

Muovimaalia puulle / plastfärg på trä / plastic paint on wood

Jiro Takamatsu, Tokyo

146.  Perspektiivinen ulottuvuus (tori) / Dimension i perspektiv (torg) / Perspective Dimension (Square)

1968  110 x 525 x 370

Muovimaalia puulle / plastfärg på trä / plastic paint on wood

Jiro Takamatsu, Tokyo

148. Paul Thek: Untitled Sculpture (IT 1966). Mixed Media.
149. Joe Tilson: Xanadu (GB 1962). Painted wood and metal relief.
My scan from the Ars 69 Helsinki catalogue.

THEK, Paul

New York 1933

Residence: Rome

147.  Nimeämätön veistos / Skulptur utan titel / Untitled Sculpture

1966  23,5 x 41,5 x 58,5

Sekatekniikka / blandteknik / mixed media

The Pace Gallery, New York

148.  Nimeämätön veistos / Skulptur utan titel / Untitled Sculpture

1965  38 x 63,5 x 23

Sekatekniikka / blandteknik / mixed media

The Pace Gallery, New York

TILSON, Joe

London 1928

Residence: London

149.  Xanadu

1962  199 x 160

Painted wood and metal relief

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundatioin, The British Council, London

150. Ernest Trova: Falling Man, Serie 1 (US 1967). From a portfolio of six serigraphies. My scan from the Ars 69 Helsinki catalogue.

TROVA, Ernest

St. Louis 1927

Residence: St. Louis

150.  Putoava mies, sarja 1 / Fallande man, serie 1, Falling Man Serie 1

1967  61 x 61

Kuuden serigrafian salkku / mapp med sex serigrafier / portfolio of six serigraphies

Galerie Der Spiegel, Köln

151. William Tucker: Memphis (GB 1966). Wood and plastic. My scan from the Ars 69 Helsinki catalogue.

TUCKER, William

Cairo 1935

Residence: London

151.  Memphis

1965-66  76 x 142,5 x 165

Wood and plastic

The British Council, London

WARHOL, Andy

Philadelphia 1930

Residence: New York

152.  Mustavalkoinen Marilyn Monroe / Marilyn Monroe i svart och vitt / Marilyn Monroe, Black and White

1962  208 x 140

Serigrafia kankaalle / serigrafi på duk / serigraphy on canvas

Moderna Museet, Stockholm

155. Victor Vasarely: Salgo Positif. Wood relief, multiple. Galerie Denise René.

VASARELY, Victor

Pécs, Hungary 1908

Residence: Paris

153. Boglar Bleu

1967  202 x 202

Galerie Denise René, Paris

154.  Meh Neg

1967  245 x 245

Collage

Galerie Denise René, Paris

155. Salgo Positif

Puureliefi, multippeli / trärelief, multippel / wood relief, multiple

Galerie Denise René, Paris

156.  Turkiz Negatif

Puureliefi, multippeli / trärelief, multippel / wood relief, multiple

Galerie Denise René, Paris

157.  Granat Negatif

Puureliefi, multippeli / trärelief, multippel / wood relief, multiple

Galerie Denise René, Paris

158.  Zaphir Negatif

Puureliefi, multippeli / trärelief, multippel / wood relief, multiple

Galerie Denise René, Paris

159.  Beryl Positif

Puureliefi, multippeli / trärelief, multippel / wood relief, multiple

Galerie Denise René, Paris

160.  Topaze Blanche Negatif

Puureliefi, multippeli / trärelief, multippel / wood relief, multiple

Galerie Denise René, Paris

161.  Topaze Noire Negatif

Puureliefi, multippeli / trärelief, multippel / wood relief, multiple

Galerie Denise René, Paris

162.  Caribe Positif

Puureliefi, multippeli / trärelief, multippel / wood relief, multiple

Galerie Denise René, Paris

163.  Dyok Positif

Puureliefi, multippeli / trärelief, multippel / wood relief, multiple

Galerie Denise René, Paris

164.  Sellem Positif

Puureliefi, multippeli / trärelief, multippel / wood relief, multiple

Galerie Denise René, Paris

165.  Eclipse Positif

Puureliefi, multippeli / trärelief, multippel / wood relief, multiple

Galerie Denise René, Paris

166. Tom Wesselman: Seascape (US 1965). Liquitex on canvas. From his Seascape series. My scan from the Ars 69 Helsinki catalogue.

WESSELMAN, Tom

Cincinnati, Ohio 1931

Residence: New York

166.  Merimaisema / Marin / Seascape

1965  162,5 x 183

Liquitex kankaalle / liquitex på duk / liquitex on canvas

Courtesy, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York

168, Katsuhiro Yamaguchi: Bridge in May (JP 1967). Acryl and light. My scan from the Ars 69 Helsinki catalogue.

YAMAGUCHI, Katsuhiro

Tokyo, Japan 1928

Residence: Tokyo

167.  Suudelma / Kyss / Kiss

1967  200 x 250 x 50

Akryylimuovia ja valoa / akryl och ljus / acryl and light

Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, Tokyo

168.  Toukokuinen silta / Bro i maj / Bridge in May

1967  80 x 300 x 300

Akryylimuovia ja valoa / akryl och ljus / acryl and light

Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, Tokyo