Kalevi Helvetti’s new body of work explores the great names of popular music through his own unique and twisted perspective, through death. The original subjects of all the works in the exhibition are stars who have already passed on to the afterlife. Kalevi Helvetti commented on the exhibition, “The music plays and the songs live on, even though death will reap us all!”
The exhibition will be on display in the Kannusali lobby in Espoo until the beginning of the autumn season and is open to the public during opening hours.
Kalevi Helvetti (Pertti Kurikka, b. 1956)
Pertti Kurikka’s alter ego Kalevi Helvetti’s terrifying images are straightforward punk, medieval imagery of earthly sins and warnings of otherworldly horrors. Kalevi Helvetti reminds us of our mortality with Pertti Kurikka smiling around the corner. The viewer cannot be sure whether the carnival of rats, abscesses and skulls is humour or an image of the author’s inner world. There are many interpretations, as there always is in good art. As a musician, Pertti Kurikka can play anything from punk to hymns. Kalevi Helvetti, on the other hand, is very strict and focused on one thing: only the most horrible will do.
Kurikka has always been interested in drawing and the theme of horror. His alter ego Kalevi Helvetti was launched in autumn 2011 in the form of a C-cassette recording. Kalevi Helvetti is a musician, performer, poet, writer and visual artist. In addition to numerous live performances, Kalevi Helvetti has had several solo and group exhibitions in Finland and abroad (Mänttä, Helsinki, Paris, London, New York, Kotka). In 2014, a book of Kalevi Helvetti’s poems and drawings was published by a Mexican publisher.
Kalevi Helvetti won Kettuki Association’s price for Artist of the Year in 2019.
Exhibition opening hours:
24.8.2024-30.9.2024
from 09.00 to 21.00
Location: Kannusali, Kannusillankatu 4, 02770 Espoon kaupunki. See the location on a map.
Free admission.
Lue lisää: Kannusali, Facebook event of the exhibition
