Concrete Currents – Photographs by Arto Saari
18.05.2024 – 27.10.2024 || Aalto2 Museum || Jyväskylä, Finland
”It has been amazing to see how Alvar Aalto’s design has broken down barriers and created a new living organism. I don’t know what Alvar’s goals were when he designed the swimming pool at Villa Mairea, but ultimately it became much more than just a swimming pool."
-Arto Saari
Arto Saari is one of the most famous skateboarding professionals of the early 2000s. After leaving professional skateboarding, Arto Saari has immersed himself in photography. Concrete Currents offers a personal insight into the subculture called skateboarding.
Exhibition style plywood prints available for sale
Arto’s exhibition and print shop images are printed on birch plywood supplied by the Finnish company Koskisen.
Koskisen is an international specialist in wood processing who is more than a hundred years old. Koskinen manufacture high-quality and durable products, to which carbon is bind for decades. The Concrete Currents exhibition is produced by the Museum of Central Finland. Images are printed on plywood by Dialab, Finlands leading Fine Art print studio.