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Art show for Arctic Circle - Front Page - "The Snow Show" in Finland - Brief Article
Art in America, Jan, 2003
A year from now, an ambitious inter national art and architecture exhibition, "The Snow Show," will take place in Finnish Lapland, in the towns of Rovaniemi and nearby Kemi; it is slated to open in late February 2004, and is expected to remain on view as far into April as weather conditions permit. Rovaniemi, the largest town in northern Finland, is situated on the Arctic Circle, and is known for its Alvar Aalto plan. In February and March, the cold is intense and daylight is brief.
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Working in pairs, 40 architects (or teams) and 40 artists will create structures, installations and sculptures, the primary components of which--a minimum of 80 percent--will be ice and snow. Video, lasers, light and sound will also be incorporated in many of the pieces. Among the participants will be Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono, Anish Kapoor, Ilya Kabakov and Robert Barry, as well as Tadao Ando, Diller + Scofidio, Rem Koolhaas, LOT/ek, Thom Mayne, Tod Williams & Billie Tsien, Lebbeus Woods and Juhani Pallasmaa. A test run with two architect-artist pairs, who will also participate next year--Steven Holl/Jene Highstein and Asymptote/Osmo Rauhala--is set for February and March 2003. The roster of participants is still in formation.
The project is the brainchild of New York independent curator and art dealer Lance Fung, in conjunction with Unto Kayhko and Hilkka Liikkanen, directors of the Kemi and Rovaniemi art museums, respectively, and has been in preparation for several years. The budget currently stands at around $3 million. Conceived as a (necessarily) ephemeral event, "The Snow Show" will be accompanied by an extensive catalogue and a documentary made for TV; drawings, photos and models of the site installations will constitute an ancillary exhibition, for which an international museum tour is envisaged.
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