The Belgian artist’s exhibition is on display at the Amos Rex art museum in Helsinki only this weekend. According to the museum director, about 170,000 people have seen the exhibition.
The human hose winds along the side of the Glass Palace wall and disappears around the corner.
The exhibition’s large-scale realistic installations deal with major themes in art, such as death. In the black and white showroom, the atmosphere is dreamy.
– This is worth seeing. Shut up, he tells his thoughts about the exhibition.
Hit shows are finally selected with the help of intuition
– If you want, you can create your own world in Amos Rex’s exhibition space, as Op de Beeck has done. He said that he has never before used a space that suits him so well and has never had so many people visit one of his exhibitions.
Amos Rex’s exhibitions have gathered queues before. Already the opening exhibition, *Massless* of the Japanese teamLab artist collective, gathered a good quarter of a million viewers.
Kartio considers it gratifying that the museum has succeeded in creating exhibitions that have a strong appeal. Like Op de Beeck’s exhibition, the starting point is that the artist can take advantage of Amos Rex’s unique, tall space with no partitions.
– And of course there has to be something in art that stops you.
Kartio closely follows what is happening in the art world. In the final games, however, he trusts his own intuition when choosing a new exhibition.
– You can’t trust anything but instinct. It is also pretty well educated, he states.