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"The Neo-Dadaists included Ismo Kajander, whose debut exhibition in Helsinki 1964 was one of the art scandals of the period."

Bengt von Bonsdorff, Art in Finland, Schildts 2000
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John Cage’s idea of eliminating the barrier between art and reality inspired Kajander to carry experiments, the best known of which was “music machine” (1964), made together with the composer Henrik Otto Donner. The two fashioned it from various kinds of junk, the rim of a bicycle (a reference to Duchamp), a rake, a birch log and other scrap.

Markku Valkonen, Finnish Art over the centuries, Otava 1992
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One of Kajander’s first assemblages was the DADA Cupboard (1962), made after his trip to Paris, an old wash-stand whose left side, with objects and photographs, represented the world of men, and right side that of women. The artist’s five-year-old goddaughter was responsable for the piece’s socially committed contribution. Her little poem was written on the door:”Old Macdonald had a family and it didn’t have any food and it died of food since it didn’t have any food.”

Markku Valkonen, Finnish Art over the centuries
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"Before the breakthrough of pop art the Dada Cupboard had a shocking effect on Finnish visual art of the 1960s."

Bengt von Bonsdorff, Art in Finland

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...while Ismo Kajander found a meaning in art in ideology:”dadaism gave the artist of the bourgeois world a view of the demands for social challenge: the means for tearing apart what exists.”

Markku Valkonen, Finnish Art over the centuries
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Agora / Portsa / 9x12 / Marathon / Gloria Vanderbilt / Strange, stranger / TIE 2000 / 1918 / what's new?