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Competição internacional pela criação de obra pública em homenagem a Helene Schjerfbeck, Finlândia

International competition to actualize a public artwork in memory of visual artist Helene Schjerfbeck - Pro Artibus Foundation

Inscrições até 15 de janeiro de 2010

The Pro Artibus Foundation
Åsa Lönnqvist, Gustaf Wasas gata 11, 10600 Ekenäs, Finland
asa.lonnqvist@proartibus.fi
www.proartibus.fi
Realização: The Pro Artibus Foundation
Apoio: Schjerfbeck Society in Ekenäs e Prefeitura de Raseborg

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Regulamento (em inglês):

1. The competition objective is to create a long-standing public artwork for the southern end of the Skepparträdgården park in Ekenäs. Skepparträdgården park is situated in the centre of Ekenäs, in the City of Raseborg. The area is a park along the leisure boat harbour Södra viken, which is on the boundary of
the old town, where Helene Schjerfbeck sought inspiration and motives for her work.

The artwork is to be placed so that it can be seen both on land and from the sea. When designing the artwork, the artist should take into account temperature variations (+25°C- -25°C), wind strain and also possible changes in sea level that can cause flood water to rise to and around the artwork.

2. To be considered for the competition, the entry must include the following outlines and information:
a) A model of the competition entry in 1:10 miniature scale including sketches, and preferably with a DVD presentation
b) A specific cost calculation which also includes the artist's commission fee
c) An evaluation for operation and maintenance costs
d) Other descriptive material with information regarding the motives
behind the artwork and chosen material
e) The artwork may be given a title
f) The artwork shall be unique

3. Prices. The total prize sum is 30.000 euros, which will be shared between the winning entries according to a decision made by the competition jury

4. The competition jury consists of The chairman of the Schjerfbeck society in Ekenäs is a permanent jury
member Berndt Arell, Museum Director for the Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Leena Ahtola-Moorhouse, Chief Supervisor at Ateneum Art Museum, Thomas Blomqvist, City council chairman, Susanne Gottberg, Visual artist, Leif Jakobsson, Managing Director of Pro Artibus, Silja Rantanen, Visual artist, Kai Kartio, Museum Director at Amos Anderson Art Museum, Erik Kruskopf, Art critic, Wivan Nygård-Fagerudd, Chairman of the Delegation of the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, Mikael Westerback Managing Director of the Signe and Anne Gyllenberg Foundation and two experts nominated by the Association of Finnish Sculptors, Jukka Vikberg and Maria Duncker.

Contact between artists participating in the competition and members of the jury regarding the competition is forbidden. Questions in regard to the competition should be addressed in written before 10.1.2010 to the
Competition Coordinator moderating contact on all matters between participating artists and the jury.

Contact details:
Åsa Lönnqvist, Gustaf Wasas gata 11, 10600 Ekenäs, Finland
asa.lonnqvist@proartibus.fi
All instructions regarding the competition are also available on the Internet:
www.proartibus.fi

5. The competition entries must be signed and have an attached enclosed, envelope with same signature containing:
a. Name, address and contact details
b. Return instructions (entries and attached material that is not required to be returned will be
destroyed)
c. The drafts will stay in the artist’s possession. Copyright remains with the artist
d. The final order for the work is submitted by the Pro Artibus Foundation, who have the right to order the work after the end of the competition, in negotiation with the Schjerfbeck society in Ekenäs and City of Raseborg
e. Competition time 15.2.2009-15.1.2010 (the competition expires on Friday 15th of January 2010 at 16:00, when all competition entries have to have been handed in to The Pro Artibus Foundation, Gustaf Wasas gata 11, 10600 Ekenäs, Finland. Packages should be marked ”Schjerfbeck”. The participant is responsible for all delivery costs. The goal is to unveil the winning artwork before the end of 2011)
f. After the competition ends, all entry suggestions will be exhibited in Gallery Elverket as well as virtually on www.proartibus.fi
g. Additional information and written questions as well as questions regarding potential travel arrangements to visit the area:

Competition Coordinator Åsa Lönnqvist
Gustaf Wasas gata 11
10600 Ekenäs
Finland
e-mail: asa.lonnqvist@proartibus.fi

11. This competition program has been approved at the Finnish Sculpture
Association's meeting.
Encl.
-Competition program
-Details over the Skepparträdgården park
-Biography of Helene Schjerfbeck
-Bibliography about Helene Schjerfbeck
-Facts about Ekenäs in City of Raseborg

Sobre The Pro Artibus Foundation:

The Pro Artibus Foundation is an independent organisation affiliated with the Foundation for Swedish Culture in Finland. Its main mission is to promote visual arts in all parts of the Swedish-speaking regions of Finland. The foundation manages and expands an art collection comprising of work by Swedish-speaking Finnish artists. Pro Artibus maintains the Art Centre for Swedish-speaking Finns in Ekenäs. The Art centre includes Gallery Elverket. Gallery Sinne is managed by the foundation in Helsinki.

Sobre Helene Schjerfbeck:

Tammisaari and its surrounding districts are strongly linked to Helene Schjerfbeck's (1862-1946) life. Her roots are intertwined in many ways, both from her mother's and father's side to Tammisaari and its surrounding area. Her great grandfather was the first provincial doctor in the district and her mother's relatives originated from Karjalohja and Vihti. The nearby Sjundby manor was also part of her childhood landscape.

Schjerfbeck was born in Helsinki, where she was given her first art tuition as a young talent. She was soon given scholarships to continue her studies at private academies in Paris. In 1883 she participated in her first Paris salon and recieved a bronze medal at the Paris World Exhibition in 1889. Schjerfbeck also painted in Bretagne and Cornwall. During the 1890's she taught at her previous art school in Helsinki until she withdrew to live with her mother in Hyvinkää in 1902, where she developed her modernist painting style. From there she moved to Tammisaari in 1925, a few years after the death of her mother.

Schjerfbeck lived for the longest continuous time in Tammisaari from 1925 until 1941, but even before this she had often painted in the district and its surrounding environment. Especially important, in regard to her art, were the painting spells in Tammisaari during the years 1918 and 1919-1920, which gave birth to outstanding modernist works like "Californian lady I" and "Trees in the wind". In the city, Schjerfbeck searched above all for peace for herself and her painting. The old trees and their luscious crowns interested her in Laivuri park. Being disabled, her garden bench at home (Perspektivet 2, nowadays Raseborgsvägen 2) and the fruit trees close-by were important, and she called the bench her work bench. Hagen and Ramsholmen were her inspiring summer travel destinations, partly because from there, the sea and islands were visible, which meant so much for her, especially in her youth.

Models were not as easy to find in Tammisaari as they were in Hyvinkää, but many notable portraits were created of the landlady, landlord, relatives, working-class girls, children from the area and foreigners visiting the city. Schjerfbeck's painting style became sharper, more revealing and the colour scale darkened. The Tammisaari period was all in all a productive time that gave birth to some three hundred works and awarded her with the work peace she had longed for, even though her health had continuously faltered here as well. On the initiative of her art dealer Gösta Stenman, Schjerfbeck started to paint reproductions of her early works like "Convalescent" and "Seamstress" in 1927. Schjerbeck's lithograph series was also accomplished during the Tammisaari period in 1938.

During the Winter and Continuation War, Schjerfbeck had to move away from Tammisaari. She lived in Tenhola, Loviisa retirement home and Nummela Luontola sanatorium. Stenman eventually succeeded in persuading Schjerfbeck to move away from the misery of the Finnish war to the Saltsjöbaden spa hotel in Sweden in February 1944. At Stockholm Saltsjöbaden, Schjerfbeck managed to paint a tremendous climax to her production; portraits, still life compositions, landscapes and a series of self portraits. In January 1946 Helene Schjerfbeck died in Saltsjöbaden. Her ashes were brought to Helsinki and buried in the Hietaniemi cemetery, next to her mother and father.