Art|The police confirm that they have received the artist’s material for examination: “Now we will find out what it contains and whether it contains illegal material.”
Police the preliminary explanation is done by the artist Erkki Kurenniemen (1941–2017) from the artistic legacy. The material was delivered to the police this week from the National Gallery.
“We have Erkki Kurenniemi’s archival material, and when we went through it, we found content that we concluded should be investigated by the police”, Director General of the National Gallery Kimmo Läva tells.
“Neither the National Gallery nor our employees are suspected of a crime, and as far as we know, the police are not investigating this as an urgent matter.”
Kimmo Levä does not say in more detail what kind of material it is, nor even whether the matter under investigation is related to the artist himself or to another person.
In the year Erkki Kurenniemi, who died in 2017, was a pioneer of electronic music, a developer of robot technology and an instrument builder of electronic synthesizers. He studied the interaction between art, science and technology creating both future utopias and the culture of their time.
In 2018 HS Monthly Supplement published an extensive story about Kurenniemi and his life. In it, it was said that in the 1960s the futurologist filmed everyday life in short films. Between 1970 and 1975, he recorded 90 hours of audio diaries. There are 300–400 hours of video from the 1980s.
Supervisor Mika Taanilan In the documentary he made about Kurenniemi in 2002 The future is not the same the artist says he takes 20,000 digital photos a year and plans to double the number to 40,000.
Kimmo Levän according to Kurenniemi’s archive material was delivered to the National Gallery already years before the artist’s death.
“Archival material documenting Kurenniemi’s life, the archive compiled by him, has been included in the archive collection. The first batch of his very extensive material entered our collections in 2006.”
Levä cannot say in which schedule Kurenniemi’s archival material has been reviewed at the National Gallery.
Police confirms that he received material from the National Gallery for examination on Tuesday.
“The material has been confiscated, and we are now investigating what it contains and whether it contains illegal material,” the crime commissioner Ritva Elomaa Tells about the police in Helsinki.
According to Elomaa, the material has just been taken over, and it has not yet been investigated. Next, a preliminary investigation is carried out.
“In other words, a criminal report has not been registered, but an investigation report like this,” says Elomaa.
“We have not yet been able to see what kind of material it contains, but in the opinion of the informant, it is something that the police should investigate. Now we will investigate it, as long as we have time.”
According to Elomaa, there is “a lot” of material.
“It’s a big material,” he says.
“What to do with it and how to start an investigation, then it is up to the head of the investigation to decide what he will do with it.”
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