Glas and Wood<\/p>\n
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Jani Leinonen\u2019s Chapel of Remorse (February 2019) was installed in a 500-year-old barn in a small village of Madulain, in the valley of Engadin, Switzerland. The glass panels were cut to fit perfectly in the centuries old window frames. The glass panels of Chapel of Remorse are painted with old stained glass technique at Mayer\u2019sche Hofkunstanstalt in M\u00fcnich. What is now installed in the Grand Dolder\u2019s wall is not only the stained glass artworks but also the centuries-old chapel-like architectural composition and shapes of the windows of a medieval Swiss barn.<\/p>\n
The Finnish artist Jani Leinonen plays with the systems of commodity exchange and celebrity and the marketing strategies through which they operate. He attacks symbols and marketing strategies, turning them into objects of ridicule, thereby creating clich\u00e9s about our agreed marketing society and economic every-day. With these strikes, Leinonen unfolds the chain reaction we all are voluntarily involved in and plays up the iconographies of the global brand land. Leinonen\u2019s installations are shops, bars, slot machines but also plain painting exhibitions. What is displayed, though, are not goods but an artistic allegorization that appropriates these marketing strategies only in order to unhinge their underlying assumptions about value and appropriateness. Leinonen graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki in 2002. His works have been exhibited widely internationally, i.e. at the Nordic Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennial, Galerie Gmurzynska, Wilhelm Hack Museum Ludwigshafen and the Frankfurter Kunstverein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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