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Henry Grahn Hermunen (Helsinki 1963) is a contemporary artist living in Helsinki, Finland and Stockholm, Sweden. He studied at The Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki Finland between 1996–2001 and received a Master of Fine Arts. During 1998 -2000 he was a scholar at The Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm Sweden. Since the late 1990s, he has created big scale installations consisting of separate techniques or combinations such as: photography, drawings, sculpture, painting, light and sound, dealing with environmental and sociopolitical issues.〔Västra Nyland Newspaper “Fine art as an opening for political debate” Camilla Lindberg, 14 June 2008, Finland.〕 In an interview "Art about the beauty in Life", with Ny Tid (Finland) news magazine Henry Grahn Hermunen said: We live in the middle of a world wide renaissance with global education through the internet. But for example, people work too much to have time to consume what they have. Medias role is crucial - they can obviously make people shrink. Joseph Pulitzer who founded the Pulitzer Prize and who sometimes acted dubiously himself, said a hundred years ago "that a cynical, mercenary and demagogic press will eventually create a people who are just as shabby as themselves".〔Ny Tid Journal “Art about beauty in life” Angela Oker-Blom, No.32, 14.8. 2008 Helsinki Finland.()〕 Henry Grahn Hermunen has exhibited at art venues including Art Forum Berlin, ARCO Madrid and at The Whitechapel Gallery London, as well showing solo exhibitions at Marina Gisich Gallery and at The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Swedish newspaper SvD Svenska Dagbladet wrote: Grahn Hermunen is the first North European Contemporary Artist invited to show his exhibition "Water table in a renaissance garden" in one of the halls of The Hermitage, a Museum considered to be one of the world's foremost Institutions. 〔Ministry for Foreign Affairs()〕〔SvD Svenska Dagbladet “Hermunen på Eremitaget“ Stockholm 6 June 2007 TT Spektra Sweden()〕 His works are for example in the collections of Moderna Museet the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Sweden, Pro Artibus Finland, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum of Contemporary Art Berlin Germany, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art New York USA, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art St. Petersburg Russia, and The South Karelian Art Museum Finland. () () () () () In 2011 Henry Grahn Hermunen was invited to take part and also curate the North European section to the Celebratory 10th International Dialogues Biennale in Manege -The Main Exhibition Hall of St. Petersburg, Russia.〔St. Petersburg Newspaper - SpbVedomosti "Henry Grahn Hermunen´s artwork is one of the best parts of the biennale" Vadim Mikhailov Nr. 160, 29 August 2011, St. Petersburg Russia.()〕 The artist is represented by Cath Alexandrine Danneskiold-Samsøe Gallery in Denmark, Marina Gisich Gallery in Russia, and Karin Weber-Galerie Mitte in Germany. ==Further reading== *Henry Grahn Hermunen, authors: Mika Hannula, Power Ekroth, Kari Immonen, ISBN 978-91-633-0767-6 () *Amy Cheung (Hong Kong artist), Henry Grahn, Valter Kokot, Erkka Nissinen. Handkerchief Production, ISBN 962-86762-8-8 *FATAL MOMENTS – images of war in Fine Art. Authors: Leena Räty, Anu Talka, Riitta Kormano, Maija Tanninen-Mattila, Jan Kaila, Marja Ruta, Ismo Kajander, Henry Grahn Hermunen. South Karelia Art Museum, Lappeenranta Finland. ISBN 978-951-785-100-8 *Manual CC. Instructions for Beginners and Advanced Players.() Texts by: Sebastian Cichocki, Andrzej Szczerski, Joanna Warsza and the artists. KRONIKA Museum, Bytom Poland. The ISBN printed in the document (978-83-920614-6-2) is invalid, causing a checksum error. *"Sense and sensibility" ISBN 978-91-980437-0-9, "Fabulous" ISBN 978-91-633-6838-7. Authors: Karin Perers - Kenneth Linder, The VERKET Museum, Avesta Sweden. *Kuvas 4. Editors: Vesa Vehviläinen, Tiina Mielonen. Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki Finland, ISSN 1238-8009 *Dala Demokraten Newspaper "Thousands of visitors sees Avesta Art each summer" Kerstin Eriksson 14 June 2012, Sweden. *TS-Turun Sanomat-Newspaper, An international selection in The Ars Nova Museum-Kansainvälinen valikoima Ars Nova -museossa, Jyrki Vuori Turku Finland 18.3.2005.() *YLE 1 Radioprogram Qualitymarkt, Interview about The Singing Summerian Installation, Jonni Roos, 28.5.2001, Finland. *Helsingin Sanomat-Newspaper, The Singing Summerian Installation, Marja-Terttu Kivirinta, 21 May 2001 Finland. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Grahn Hermunen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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