The summer 2022 exhibition at the Vuohijärvi House of Nature and Culture will feature rare prints by Russian-French modernist pioneer Marc Chagall.
Chagall’s world-renowned oeuvre includes a vast catalogue of illustrations done with printmaking techniques over a period of many decades. The works were published as loose, individual prints alongside the book they illustrated; among the texts are some of the western canon’s great works, such as the Old and the New Testament, Homer’s Odyssey, and Ancient Greek plays.
Our exhibition will showcase 100 original, seldom seen illustrations from ten different books. With these pictures, Marc Chagall illustrated his own colourful life — in his signature, ethereal style — as well as the texts they accompany. They offer insight into a great artist’s life and work and promise to deepen our reading of the texts — but above all, they constitute a stunning and notable collection of 20th-century graphic art.
The exhibition is based on the private collection of Art Pappila in Sastamala, Finland. This summer, come be enchanted at the Vuohijärvi House of Nature and Culture.