Project
uusi pakka, reshuffle
playing cards
ABout.
Reshuffle is a newly drawn and revised version of the traditional Finnish children’s card game titled Pekka-game or Funny Families.
Reshuffle’s 48 individual characters are 21st century transformed. Inheriting international features and realistic professions without subjected to prejudice. Where cognitive dissonance is prevalent within contemporary arts, Reshuffle’s objective is geared towards promoting, educating and raising cultural awareness. Popular fore-, and surnames are gathered globally with improved job titles translated into Finnish, English and Japanese. Skin tones are left blank. The viewer has to visualize the true ethnicity of the characters identities. Repetition of the characters have been superimposed as the card’s back design.
The first edition of the Reshuffle is a unique, handmade cards collection on giant cardboard backings (90 cm x 60 cm) and card boxes. The limited edition prints (21 cm x 13.7 cm) and standard size deck are digital print series of the original Reshuffle.
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first edition
handmade cards collection
48 character cards, 90 c x 60 cm and card’s boxes, 2009
WORK IN PROGRESS - MA in fine art theses book BY Reetta Hiltunen, 2009-2010, 57
Academy of fine arts gallery, helsinki 2009
Vanhan raatihuoneen galleria turku 2010
Galleria katariina, helsinki 2010
limited edition PRINT
A5 cards collection
48 character card, 22 backside design cards and 5 cards with rules or information = 75 cards, SIZE A5
box: 22.1 cm x 14.8 cm x 10.6 cm
Giclée on acid free cardboard
hexagon frames: clear perspect, size: 23 cm x 19 cm/each
Happy End? - Exhibition, Helsinki Art Museum Helsinki, 2013
Happy End? - Exhibition, Helsinki Art Museum Helsinki, 2013
OTHER EXHIBITIONS SHOWCASED
FOR LOVE NOT MONEY, KUMU ART MUSEUM, TALLINN, 2011
International Print Biennale, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Iso-Britannia, 2011
in collections: V&A museum London, The Strong National Museum of Play, Ny
FOR LOVE NOT MONEY, KUMU ART MUSEUM, TALLINN, 2011
Photo: Stanislav_Stepaško
art playing card WORKSHoPS.
Hiltunen organizes wellbeing art workshops, which include pLaying multicultural Reshuffle-game with large size cards (A5) and drawing own playing cards. Drawing tools are different graphic marker pens. For more info please contact
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