Exhibition review Art historian Harri Kalha is revealed in the exhibition as a skilled collage artist whose scissors are as sharp as his pen

Harri Kalha skillfully combines surreal collages from old pictures.

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Harri Kalha: Un / nature: my second nature 27.3. until the gallery in Dueto (Kalevankatu 15). Tue – Fri 11–17, Sat – Sun 12–16.

Art historian Harri Kalha (b. 1962) has become known as a prolific and observant writer. In the gallery Dueto exhibition, he is also revealed to be a skilled collage artist whose scissors are as sharp as his pens.

This is Kalha’s first solo exhibition. As an artist, he made his debut in 2020 at the Hämeenlinna Artists’ Association’s summer exhibition.

In the collages of Kalhan shows the exact sense of formation and the gaze of the art historian. In his works, Kalha combines images he has cut from old encyclopedias into compositions in which nature and culture merge into surreal symbioses.

The wing of the butterfly looks like a cloth gauze around a Greek pot and a wig for the sculpture can be found in the beehive.

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A typical genius stamp can be found in the work Lost self-portrait (2021). Kalha has replaced Helene Schjerfbeckin the face of a bronze portrait with swirling shapes of a tree bark reminiscent of the skinny features of the artist’s late-era self-portraits.

Kalhan the collages give birth to the special kind of satisfaction that arises when things fit together unexpectedly well. The content parallels of the collages are delicious, and so are their visual insights, where the lines and shapes of the images snap perfectly into place.

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