"Aesthete Extraordinaire / Birger Kaipiainen's Ceramic Fantasies" Exhibition

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Aesthete Extraordinaire / Birger Kaipiainen's Ceramic Fantasies Exhibition

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EMMA - ESPOO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

THE WEEGEE EXHIBITION CENTRE, AHERTAJANTIE 5, TAPIOLA, FINLAND

http://www.emma.museum/en

"This summer, EMMA offers a major showing of the works of Finnish ceramic 

artist Birger Kaipiainen (1915–1988) that is bound to question categories and 

raise eyebrows. During his half-century long career at the Arabia factory,

he enjoyed a freedom to fulfil his creative visions untrammelled

by the demands of industrial production.

Birger Kaipiainen went his own way. Although his unique, mysterious fantasies 

delighted contemporaries, they also estranged the advocates of modern design. 

Art circles wondered at his unrestrained decorativeness.

This aesthete extraordinaire in his own time appears in another light today:

a singular visualiser and bold visionary who created his own fantasy world in 

ceramics."

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Birger Kaipiainen (1915-1988)
Photo Otso Pietinen
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