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04/11/2016. Exhibition of photographs The Golden Generation. Modernism in the Finnish Architecture and Design
Petrozavodsk branch of the Consulate General of Finland in St. Petersburg together with the National Library of Karelia and the Institute of Finland in St. Petersburg organized the Exhibition of photographs The Golden Generation. Modernism in the Finnish Architecture and Design.
The opening ceremony was held on the 28th of October in the exhibition hall of the Republic of Karelia in the frameworks of the Nordic Week festival held in Petrozavodsk.
The exhibition presented the Finnish architecture which has passed a unique way in just the last hundred years. The Golden Generation was the architects and artists who were the glory of the Finnish Architecture and Design 1930-1960s. Exhibition photos demonstrate works by Alvar Aalto, Pauli Ernesti Blomstedt, Matti Suuronen and other architects and designers who combined aesthetic, artistic searches with a reasonable, rational approach, architectural objects and surrounding landscape, natural materials and the latest technologies of that time. Works created by them in the middle of the twentieth century and earlier in the 30s amaze with their actuality today.
The exhibition was opened by Tuomas Kinnunen, the Consul of the Petrozavodsk branch of the Consulate General of Finland in St. Petersburg. Ekaterina Shishkova, the Head of the Department of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Karelia, noticed that in Finland the skills to organize the urban space are admirable. The exhibition proves this in a very clear and convincing way. Photoworks presented public buildings: libraries, restaurants, cinemas, sanatoriums, churches and chapels, designed by Finnish architects. The photos also show fabrics and fabric products by the Marimekko factory, furniture by the Asko factory and other examples of creativity by Finnish designers. And it all looks ultra-modern, although it was created half a century ago.
Nordic Week festival was held in Petrozavodsk October, 26 – November, 25. Diplomatic missions and cultural institutions of Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland prepared a variety of activities in the field of culture, education, ecology and innovations. The Festival was held with support of the External Relations Committee and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Karelia. The festival program was varied and rich. Exhibitions, concerts, film screenings, plays, performances, discussions and roundtable discussions – all the exhibition spaces and facilities of the city were involved in it.