Nikolas Ventourakis
Artist Feature
Every week an artist is featured whose single image was published by Der Greif. The Feature shows the image in the original context of the series.
1/26 100 Planted Saviors Of The Heritage, 2015
2/26 Measured And Weighed, 2015
3/26 Family Re-Union
4/26 Family Division 2017
5/26 54 Soil Solutions 2017
6/26 54 Grams Of Soil From 54 Different Solutions 2017
7/26 100 Meter Running Water, 2017
8/26 One Out Of 100 Hectares, 2017
9/26 Property Weight, 2016
10/26 Frozen And Forgotten Ones 2017
11/26 Picked Fragments #1 21, 2016
12/26 Located Fragments, 2016
13/26 Colliding Generations 2017
14/26 Imaginery Borderline
15/26 Patriotism And Romanticism Studies Gallen Kallela, 1896
16/26 Patriotism And Romanticism Studies Järnefelt, 1928
17/26 Broken Heart Relationship
18/26 Hunting The Midpoint, 2015
19/26 Midpoint, 2015
20/26 Visualizing Property #1
21/26 Visualizing-Property#2
22/26 100 Mistakes Made By Previous Generation, 2017.
23/26 As I See It, 2015
24/26 Birch Portrait, 2015
25/26 My Book Of Our Land, 2015
26/26 My Vision Of The Future, 2015
Jaakko Kahilaniemi - 100 Hectares of Understanding
Oct 11, 2017
100 Hectares of Understanding is my attempt to understand the 100 hectare area of the forest I own. Throughout adulthood my relationship with the forest has been somewhat discordant and attitude towards my future inheritance has been indifferent. Recent explorations in the forest, and in the world of forestry have managed to provoke my interest towards unfamiliar property of mine.
The 100 Hectares of Understanding project includes both tangible and intangible approaches and visualizations of what forest and forestry mean to me and how the unknown becomes familiar. I study what nature has to offer to urbanized people and I will try to create new ways of thinking and ways to experience and feel the forest.
I arbitrarily mix various types of pictures with each other, and define them as part of a larger visual entity. My method of working is based on open-minded experimentalism. For the unknown to become familiar requires both physical and delicate acts: to nurture and to tame, to master and to yield. My photographs are testimonial, traces of my aspirations towards understanding and awareness. Photography, for me, is a gateway to the very core of my thoughts and imagination.
Taking inspiration from Fluxus and the traditions of Arte Povera, I seek to encounter the forest with a playful and open approach. 100 Hectares of Understanding consists of the objects that I’ve found, the acts that I’ve photographed, the sculptures I’ve made and visual secrets that I have created.
Artist Blog
The blog of Der Greif is written entirely by the artists who have been invited to doing an Artist-Feature. Every week, we have a different author.
1/6 Stills from the process video (©Jaakko Kahilaniemi), 2017
2/6 Stills from the process video (©Jaakko Kahilaniemi), 2017
3/6 7000 Oak Trees by Joseph Beuys, 1982Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/AR00745
4/6 Perimeters/Pavilions/Decoys by Mary Miss, 1977-1978
5/6 Levitated Mass by Michael Heizer, 2012
6/6 Nonsite by Robert Smithson, 1969
About land
Oct 17, 2017 - Jaakko Kahilaniemi
Move
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Dig
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Modify
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Adapt
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Cultivate
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Grow
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Break
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Harvest
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Dig with devotion
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Plant with passion
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Move with shovel
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Use with shovel
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Use with hands
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Use with brain
1/5 Colliding Generations, 2017 installation shot from Backlight Photo Festival, Tampere Art Museum, Finland (©Jaakko Kahilaniemi)
2/5 Stills from the process video (©Jaakko Kahilaniemi)
3/5 Stills from the process video (©Jaakko Kahilaniemi)
4/5 Giuseppe Penone carving one of his masterpieces
5/5 Albero di 3,50 metri, 1993, by Giuseppe Penone
About poor art
Oct 16, 2017 - Jaakko Kahilaniemi
carve
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whittle
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think
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carve
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whittle
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think
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sculpting the world
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with natural material
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with one chance
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and
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attempt to
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understand the nature
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and the generations
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because all the answers
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are encoded in to the nature
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already Giuseppe knew it. My favorite, one of them.
About valuability
Oct 15, 2017 - Jaakko Kahilaniemi
shining
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shining
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ruling the world
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everybody wants it
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only few have it
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concept of gold is interesting
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some have tried to do it by themselves
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relating to eternal life
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immunity
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nature like capital
1/6 Holy Bible By Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin (published by MACK)
2/6 Holy Bible By Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin (pages 74-75) (published by MACK)
3/6 Holy Bible By Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin (pages 132-133) published by MACK
4/6 Holy Bible By Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin (pages 311-312) published by MACK
5/6 Holy Bible By Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin (pages 365-366) published by MACK
6/6 Holy Bible By Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin (published by MACK)
About The Book
Oct 14, 2017 - Jaakko Kahilaniemi
One of the most influential book ever.
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in the world
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and you’re reading it and thinking, something is not right here right now.
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full with violent.
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full with nudity.
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full with propaganda.
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full with bad.
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full with good.
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full with god.
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full with everything .
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that should’t be there.
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cut down your images
(page 74)
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The king, the king, the king, the king, the king, the king, the king, the king, the king, the king, the king, the king, the king, the king, the king, the king, the king, the king, the king, the king, the king, the king, the king, the king, the king, the king, the king, the king, the king, the kings
(page 132)
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my life upon the earth
(page 311)
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my bones, my bread, my skin, for ever
(page 365)
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One of the most influential photobook ever. To me.
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Holy Bible by geniuses Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
About performance
Oct 13, 2017 - Jaakko Kahilaniemi
Mission is to understand the world around us.
Mission is to understand what to do differently.
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For example via performative act in the nature.
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If you are a cutter, you are a killer
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If you are a measurer, you are a scientist
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If you are a weigher, you are a thinker
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Trying to think differently is a hard work nowadays.
Everyone else should do the same.
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Like Hamish Fulton, he creates art from walking. From walking. Only from that.
About 100 Hectares
Oct 12, 2017 - Jaakko Kahilaniemi
It’s about forest and forestry
which is about cutting and planting
which is about killing and giving birth
which is about life in general
and it will end up doing every mistake
again and again
