Yrjö Kukkapuro – Magic Room
EMMA Espoo Museum of Moderna Art
1/3–28/1 2023/24
Magic Room highlights parallels between Kukkapuro’s designs and modern and postmodern art. The designer's most enduring source inspiration was his spouse, the printmaker Irmeli Kukkapuro (1934–2022). The exhibition architecture is based on the Magic Room concept developed by Kukkapuro in the 1980s, which displays furniture in the form of an installation using various structures and lighting effects.
Alongside Yrjö Kukkapuro’s designs, Magic Room also features works by his contemporaries and present-day artists: Timo Aalto, Jacob Dahlgren, Beryl Furman, Esa Laurema, Vladimir Kopteff, Kristian Krokfors, Irmeli Kukkapuro, Matti Kujasalo,Jussi Niva, Lars-Gunnar Nordström, Kristiina Nyrhinen, Tarja Pitkänen- Walter, Airi Snellman-Hänninen, Mari Sunna and Osmo Valtonen.
