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AVA Magazine Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 17 B 8 00100 Helsinki FINLAND +358 9444876 www.avagalleria.com/index.php/fi/magazine Painotalo Kirjapaino Välikangas Tullikamarinkatu 3 67100 Kokkola www.valikangas.fi Aineisto Painovalmiin ilmoitusmateriaalin tiedostomuoto: pdf. Resoluutio: 300 dpi. Toimitus ja tilaukset: eeva.zwijnenburg@avagalleria.com 2/1 Sivu (42 x 59,4cm) 2 100 € 1/1 Sivu (21 x 29,7cm) 1 220 € 1/2 Sivu (10,5 x 29,7cm) 630 € 1/4 Sivu (10,5 x14,85cm) 430 € 2/1, 1/1 ja 1/2 ilmoitukset ulottuvat sivun ylälaidasta alalaitaan. 1/4 ilmoitukset sijoitetaan sivumarginaalin sisään ja erotetaan toisistaan 4mm marginaalilla.
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Kannen kuva: Kaisa Koljonen: Tide, 35 x 56,5 cm, etching drypoint and mezzotint, 2019 2
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Pink October is the month celebrated worldwide for collecting resources, particularly for breast cancer research and prevention.
CASA Art school CASA (Centro de Assistencia Social e Artistica) was founded in August
2005 by Helena and Edson Cardoso. Art School is ment for underprivileged children living in the favela of Cidade de Deus - City of God, in Rio de Janeiro.
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PINK OCTOBER
- Vaaleanpunainen lokakuu 25.10 - 10.11.2019 AVAjaiset 24.10. kello 18-20 Opening reception: October 24, at 6 pm - 8 pm Tervetuloa - Welcome
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Taiteilijat - Artists: Aino-Kaarina Pajari Anna-Maija Rissanen Anu Eskelin Deng Jianjin Hanne Rokkanen Helena Vaari Hong Liu-Sertti Ilona Rytkönen Kaisa Koljonen Kerstin Svanberg Kristina Elo Maj-Lis Tanner Mari Blomroos-Heininen Maria Aamukaste Minna Maria Lenfeldova Mirja Jaamalahti Nonna-Nina Mäki Päivyt Niemeläinen Raija Kuisma Seppo Lagom Sirkka Laakkonen Sirpa Heikkinen Sofia Wilkman Timo Ala-Vähälä Tutte Nicolai Ulla-Maija Vaittinen Ursula Kianto
Pink October Pink October is the month celebrated worldwide for collecting resources, particularly for breast cancer research and prevention. In Finland, the Cancer Foundation’s objective is to promote scientific research into cancer and cancer prevention, as well as to disseminate information about the risk of cancer, designed for healthy living. The aim is also to ensure adequate support for cancer sufferers and their loved ones. AVA Galleria wants to participate in the campaign by dressing the art of pink.
Lokakuussa vietetään maailmanlaajuisesti vaaleanpunaista kuukautta keräten varoja etenkin rintasyövän tutkimukseen ja ehkäisyyn. Suomessa Syöpäsäätiön tavoitteena on edistää syöpätautien tieteellistä tutkimusta ja syövän ehkäisyä sekä levittää tietoa syöpäriskiä vähentävistä, terveellisistä elämäntavoista. Tavoitteena on myös taata riittävästi tukipalveluita syöpään sairastuneille ja heidän läheisilleen. AVA Galleria haluaa osallistua kampanjaan pukemalla taiteen vaaleanpunaiseksi.
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Aino-Kaarina Pajari ”Aino-Kaarina Pajari was for a long time well known for her colourfull, painting-like, large size and more or less abstract carborundum works. In 2008 Pajari started to combine carborundum with woodcuts and then concentrated merely in woodcut. Her themes are dealing with plants, vegetables and landscapes, espesially seashore, fjeld and field sceneries. She collects the themes of her works by taking photographa of things she sees in her trips, on roadsides or in her own garden. She prints her bright coloured woodcuts usually by etching press on thick etching paper, which makes the works three dimensional.”
”Aino-Kaarina Pajari oli pitkään tunnettu värikylläisistä, maalauksellisista, suurikokoisista ja enemmän tai vähemmän abstrakteista carborundum-teoksistaan. Vuonna 2008 Pajari alkoi yhdistää karborundumia puupiirroksiin ja sittemmin keskittyi vain puupiirrokseen. Hänen teemansa käsittelevät kasveja, vihanneksia ja maisemia, varsinkin merenrantoja, peltoja ja peltomaisemia. Hän kerää aiheita teoksiinsa ottamalla kuvia asioista, joita hän näkee matkoillaan, teiden varsilla tai omassa puutarhassaan. Hän vedostaa moniväriset puupiirroksensa etsausprässillä käyttämällä yleensä paksua syväpainopaperia, mikä tekee teoksista kolmiulotteisia.” 6
Flowers 1 40 x 60 cm puupiirros 2019
Flowers 2 40 x 60 cm puupiirros 2019
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Anna-Maija Rissanen is a Belgian-Finnish painter who finds her inspiration in nature. She focuses mainly on painting poetic inner meditative landscapes of water and rock, between western and eastern representation, between abstract and figurative. In her works she concentrates on searching a balance between fragility and power through mixed perspectives and layers. She uses mainly mixed media that includes among others watercolour, acrylics, ink, print and collage. She poses thin layers of colours and creates different kinds of textures to give depth to the works. Her works vary in sizes and in colours. She was born 1983, in Järvenpää, Finland. She lived from 1995 to 2009 in Brussels, Belgium. She graduated in 2009 with an MA in Fine Arts from the Royal Fine-Arts Academy of Brussels and also qualified as an art teacher. In 2009 she won the first prize of Godecharle of 5,000 € awarded by the Godecharle foundation that gave her the opportunity to continue her studies in China. During 2012-2013 she studied techniques of traditional Chinese painting at the China Art Academy in Hangzhou. Between 2009 and 2019 she has had 19 solo exhibitions and taken part in more than 40 group shows that include art fairs and competitions both international than Finnish.
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A Pond 50 x 60 cm Watercolour, acrylics and wax pastels on canvas 2019 9
Anu Eskelin A German sculptor, a friend of mine, describes my paintings: Through the movement with which Eskelin applies paint to the canvas she consciously lets herself be led into the depth of oblivion, into the realm of the subconscious. Memories emerge, want to surface along with her. These are traces of landscapes, figures and architectural fragments, which are revealed to us in the interaction of shapes forming and dissolving. It is a to and fro, a hesitant revealing and concealing of the emerging images. “Through the application of individual coats of paint the themes that seeks visualization gradually reveals itself,” explains the artist. The images come to her. During the painting process she effectively moves between the two worlds. She ventures on the experience of the abyss. Our eyes glide as if in dance across Anu Eskelin’s paintings, repeatedly pausing, finding rest. At a place that seems to be both paradisiacal and past, lost. We might sense what is portrayed but we cannot grasp it. As if we were in a dream-like Arcadia, the place associated with man’s longings. But there are breaks. It is a reflected longing we are dealing with. Elegiac subjects contrast with the often vibrant colors on the canvas. The contemplative encounters the dynamic, the unconscious meets the conscious. When we look at the paintings we move between what are seemingly opposites.
Think Pink II 50 x 50 cm acrylic on canvas 2018 10
How Big Is This Flower 60 x 50 cm acrylic on canvas 2016 11
Deng Jianjin Deng Jianjin was born in 1961 in Guangdong. Now he is the professor of the Oil Painting Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Works in the domestic art museum or gallery, and the United States, Finland, Russia, Italy, Japan, Sweden, Austria, Estonia, Spain, France, Australia, Portugal were on display and collection. 12
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NO.12 The Dream Records of Witness No.12 布面油画 200 × 180 cm 13
Hanne Rokkanen Olen espoolainen luontoaktivisti ja selkäinvalidi ja tehnyt taidetta täyspäiväisesti vuodesta 1995. Maalaamisen lisäksi teen grafiikkaa jota myös jatkuvasti opetan. Säiden salliessa työni alkavat keskellä luontoa mutta lopullinen ulkoasu syntyy työhuoneessani. Maalaukseni syntyvät hitaasti, työstän useita töitä yhtä aikaa. Käytän töissäni akryyliä, akryylitussia ja öljyväriä. Työni kertovat ajatuksista ja tunteista, joita syntyy luontokokemuksista. I'm a nature activist from Espoo and an invalid due to my back. I have been an full time artist since 1995. As well as painting I make graphic arts and also teach it constantly. If the weather permits my works starts in the nature but the final results are made in my atelier. My paintings are made with time, I paint several artwork at the same time. I use acrylicpaint, acryl ink and oilcolors. My artworks express my thoughs and feelings which are composed from my nature expirience.
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Summer Play, Act I
60 x 40 cm
acrylic on canvas
Summer Play, Act II 60 x 40 cm acrylic on canvas
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Hong Liu-Sertti hong.liu-sertt@hlsart.fi www.hlsart.fi
- Finnish artist rooted from China. - BFA guaduated in The Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China. - Artworks exhibited in Europe, Asia, North America, Africa. Example: Gallery of Forssa Art museum Finland, Satellite Art Fair of Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Salon in Louvre Museum and Ning Nan Fine Arts Museum in China -Theme: freedom achieved from harmony of mankind and mankind with nature. Key element: birds as metaphor of freedom, universal love and unity. “Her artwork appears in a tactile interplay of spaces and forms using a meditative symphony of brush strokes in elegant compositions�. ( Dr. Barbara Aust-Wegemund, Art Historian)
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Let the Dream Fly 1
50 x 40 cm
mixed media
2019
Let the Dream Fly 2
50 x 40 cm
mixed media
2019
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Ilona Rytkönen www.ilonas.fi Ilona Rytkönen (b.1962, lives and works in Jämsänkoski) Even if my painting is landscape-oriented, there is a human being involved in it: the person is there as a spectator, experiencer, encounter, thinker or just observer. My expression as an artist is often mysterious or symbolic. You can see the inner feelings or the impression of a certain moment. This is more important to me than documentary or portrait painting. In my color palette, I have pursued a minor color scale. Occasionally, the surprising colors that appear in the painting process will amaze and confuse myself. Whether they can remain in the final work or hide or delete them, are the most interesting moments in my painting process. “It feels like a little melancholy and yet the ability to sense beauty is mixed in delicate scratching strokes: like a crack in the feeling that mixes for a moment. What the picture represents is realism: the street after the rain, but the way the picture looks like it is sentimentalism. The subject, philosophy and technique of making art make Rytkönen a special artist. Subjects are often used to something: a person, a face or a landscape. Their everydayness is realism, while painting technique approaches art as abstract expressionism under impressionistic appeal. Rytkönen looks inwards and outwards in her art. But the inner gives you the tone, the movement and the feeling.” Author: Saara Heikkilä, Master's Degree in Art History and Freelance Artist (25.9.2019). The full text of the article is at the end of the artist's homepage Biography: www.ilonas.fi/biografia.html My art techniques are oil painting on canvas and soft pastel painting on paper. I started as a full-time painter and contemporary artist in 2004 after graduating from the Orivesi College of Fine Arts. Ihave also studied at the Open University of the University of Art and Design Helsinki (Taik), the Free Art School, the Pekka Halonen Academy and several other art courses since 1978, most recently the Finnish Cultural Foundation's portrait painting course in Turku in 2011. I have had several domestic solo exhibitions since 2003, as well as joint and group exhibitions in Finland and abroad such as Rio de Janeiro, Osaka, New York, and Florida (and Berlin in November 2019). I have been a member of the Jyväskylä Artists 'Association since 2011 and I was a member of its Board of Directors from 2015 to 2016. I am a member of the Finnish Painters' Association since 2012. In 2016 and 2017 I have been a member of the Finnish Artists' Association (STS) as an elected representative of the Association of Finnish Fine Art Organizations (SKjL). In 2018, I received a grant from the Central Finland Arts Council for the Arts Promotion Center (Taike).
Vaikka maalaukseni olisi maisema-aiheinen, on siinä ihminenkin mukana: katsojan osassa, kokemassa, kohtaamassa, miettimässä, toteamassa. Mystinen, symbolinen, sisäisellä tunteella ladattu ilmaisu tai jonkin vaikutelman luominen tietystä hetkestä on minulle tärkeämpää kuin dokumentinomainen luonto- tai muotokuvamaalaus. Olen pyrkinyt väripaletissani kohti niukkoja värivalintoja. Toisinaan taas maalausprosessissa esiin tulevat yllättävät värit hämmästyttävät ja hämmentävät itseäni. Saavatko ne jäädä lopulliseen teokseen, piilotetaanko vai poistetaanko, ovat mielenkiintoisimpia hetkiä maalausprosessissa. ”Tuntuu kuin pieni melankolia ja kuitenkin kyky aistia kauneutta sekoittuisivat herkissä raapivissa vedoissa: kuin tunteen säröjä, jotka sekoittuvat hetkeen. Se mitä kuva esittää on realismia: sateen jälkeinen katu, mutta se, miten kuva sen näyttää, on sentimentalismia. Aihe, taiteen tekemisen filosofia ja tekniikka tekevät Rytkösestä erikoisen taiteilijan. Aiheet ovat usein jotakin totuttua: ihminen, kasvot tai maisema. Niiden arkisuus on realismia, tekniikka taas lähestyy taidetta kuin abstraktia ekspressionismia impressionistisin vedoin. Rytkönen katsoo taiteessaan sekä sisäänpäin että ulospäin. Mutta sisäinen antaa näkyvälle sävyn, liikkeen ja tunteen.” Kirjoittaja: Saara Heikkilä,taidehistorian maisteriopiskelija sekä vapaa taidekirjoittaja (25.9.2019). Kirjoitus on kokonaisuudessaan taiteilijan kotisivujen Biografia -sivun lopussa: www.ilonas.fi/biografia.html 18
Lily Purple 30,5 x 22 cm soft pastel 2019 19
Kaisa Koljonen I'm a 27 year old visual artist from Jyväskylä, central Finland. My emphasis is on printmaking and painting. Visually my works mix surreal, abstract and symbolic elements, creating imagery that invokes the human subconscious with its archetypal elements. I use a lot of imagery of human anatomy in my art, and mix that with other visual elements creating an impression of a distorted surreal anatomy book. The use of symmetry appears naturally in my art - I feel that it reflects the fractal structures of nature. In printmaking my works are built of groups of small organic lines, which finally form the artwork. The motivation for my art is to experience what it is to be human, and to let the viewers reflect themselves from my art. Currently my work is strongly influenced by the theme that a human is at the same time a physical and a psychological creature, and those two forms of excistence are bound together. In my art I strive towards the higher purpose of being human.
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Expander 40 x 40 cm acrylic on paper 2019 21
Kerstin Svanberg www.kerstinsvanberg.se kerstinsvanberg@hotmail.com
I am a Swedish artist working with handmade paper. For Pink October I have combined my paper works with archival digital prints. The photos of the women used in my collage are my relatives born in the middle 1800s.
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We Can't Be Hidden 60 x 40 x 3 cm Handformed linenpaper, pigments, digital archival print 2019
Hidden But Still There 60 x 40 x 4 cm Handformed linenpaper, pigments, digital print 2019
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Kristina Elo syntynyt / född / born 1963 www.kristinaelo.com
Vuosien 2007-2011 täysiaikainen opiskelu Repin-instituutin kuvataidekoulutuksessa Kotkassa Pietarin Taideakatemian professoroiden ja pedagogien ohjauksessa toi valmiuden kehittää omaa taidetta yhdistämällä hankittu vahva klassinen taito ja mielikuvitus laatukuvanaivismiksi. Kristinan mukaan laatukuvanaivismi on taidesuuntaus, jossa naivismi ja realistinen maalaustaide lyövät reilusti keskenään kättä ammentaen toisensa parhaita puolia. Kristina on pitänyt näyttelyitä Suomessa sekä ulkomailla vuodesta 1991. Heltidsstudierna år 2007-2011 vid Repin-institutets bildkonstskola i Kotka, under ledning av St. Peterburgs bildkonstakademis professorer och pedagoger, gav färdigheten att förnya den egna konsten. Med hjälp av det goda kunnandet i realistiskt måleri samt sin fantasi skapades den naivistiska genremålningen. Enligt Kristina är naivistisk genremålning en konstinriktning som kombinerar den klassiska realismens teknik och naivismens humor. Kristina har ställt ut sina målningar i Finland samt utomlands sedan år 1991. Kristina has studied fine arts at the Repin Institute in Kotka, full-time between 2007-2011. The studies under the guidance of professors and teachers of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts gave her the tools to renew her own practice. By combining strong classical skills with her imagination, genre painting of naive art was created. According to Kristina naive genre painting is an art genre which combines the technique of classic realism with the humor of naive art. Kristina has exhibited her paintings in Finland and abroad since 1991. 24
The Dragon Watch 40 x 60 cm oil on linen canvas 2019
Ticket to Ride 40 x 60 cm oil on linen canvas 2019
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Mari Blomroos-Heininen "Her journey as a human being in this world runs the creative microcosm of the Finnish artist, becoming a narrative element. She firmly believes that beauty can also exist in the contemporary world, that leads her to create harmonious places of art, in which to feel comfortable, where the choice of a "soft" color range envelops the viewer. Flowers or landscapes represent metaphors to express human elements to reflect on the injustices and contradictions of society as well as of an insecure and harsh world. Her research moves between a pictorial part that investigates the figurative side and also its opposite, the installations. Both are languages to create encounters on an emotional level, to give shape to the phenomenology of life. Her artistic world is definately a "deeply personal experience", as she herself says based on her own perceptions and her own interpretation of the world and its phenomena. Everyone approaches art with their own perspective and the great thing is that art allows us to welcome all interpretations and relate them to each other." - by Professor Laura Di Trapani Art historian and independent curator and critic of contemporary art
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Visitor in Forest 45 x 50 cm oil on canvas / รถljy kankaalle 2019 27
Maria Aamukaste maria.ruot@hotmail.com Olen suomalainen taiteilija. Saan voimaa Suomen rikkaasta ja monipuolisesta luonnosta: Järvet, metsät, tunturit, saaret, joet, meret. Suomen luonto tarjoaa ainutlaatuista rauhaa ja hiljaisuutta. Suomen kesä tarjoaa yöttömiä valoisia öitä ja talvi pimeyttä ja mystisyyttä. Mystisyys korostuu Suomen Lapissa. Kesällä valo valtaa maisemaan katsojan ihmeteltäväksi. Kesällä aurinko ei laske. Talvella lumi peittää luonnon, pimeys ja hämäryys korostuvat. Pimeä taivas synnyttää revontulet, loistavan valojen leikin.
I am a Finnish artist. I get strength of Finland´s rich and varied nature: Lakes, forests, fells, rivers, seas. Nature in Finland offers unique peace and quiet. Finnish summer offers bright nights and winter darkness and mystery. Mysticism is emphasized in Finnish Lapland. In summer, the sun never sets, and the light empowers the landscape. In winter, snow covers the nature. Darkness and obscurity are emphasized. The dark sky gives birth to the aurora borealis, the brilliant play of lights.
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What a Morning / Mikä aamu 40 x 50 cm oil on canvas / öljy kankaalle
I Will Dance All The Night / Haluan tanssia koko yön 50 x 40 cm oil on canvas / öljy kankaalle 2019
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Minna Maria Lenfeldova lenfeldova.art@gmail.com lenfeldovaart.wix.com/site
The emotion in my paintings is build on colors, layers and shapes. I am passionate to capture the gap between narrative and abstract art. The painting reveals hints of the emotions behind the story but part of it is hidden underneath the layers. This way the viewer can experience and solve the rest of the story in one’s own perspective. I see, feel and interpret life through visual art. Painting is a lifestyle I am not willing to give up. Things in life mature through renunciation, and a fully lived life can lead seizing the moment. These are the motif for my art. I want to stay humble, grateful and ready to learn more in order to maintain the passion for painting.
Steps to Heaven 40 x 50 cm oil on canvas / Ăśljy kankaalle 2019 30
Pinky Rain 40 x 50 cm oil on canvas / รถljy kankaalle 2019 31
Mirja Jaamalahti I am Finnish 55-year-old visual artist. I paint spontaneously with an expressive touch. My colors are dark. Subjects for paintings are in my thoughts. With the power of your imagination, the brush can travel and show direction. When the painting is finished, I wonder about the result. I’ve created my own ism, it is darkism.
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Up 60 x 40 cm akryyli 2019
Go 66 x 49 cm akryyli 2019 33
Nonna-Nina Mäki www.nonna-nina.com I am an artist from Tampere, Finland. I graduated from Lahti Art Institute in 1995. I’ve had my work on display in Finland, as well as in other countries. I’ve took part in numerous joint displays all over the world, including India, Japan, France, USA, Italy and Brazil. The imagery of my work has been influenced by my trips to India and other inspiring destinations along the years. While traveling, I have experienced hurricanes, the cordiality of the poor people and everything in between. Love is something that touches everyone, regardless if you live in a slum or in a wealthy neighborhood. Everyone needs love around themselves. Love has a different meaning for every one of us, as our history and thoughts paint our picture of love. Some might remember their first kiss in a summer night, while some can still feel the bitter sting on their chest as the love of their life has been lost. The altruistic form of love never perishes. While traveling, I have absorbed the full spectrum of colors. In the slums of India, I have seen how people get along with so little. However, they embrace all kinds of diverse colors to the extent, that it might make a western traveler dizzy. Recycling and the insight, which forms from it impresses me. Through the years I have used tablecloths, laces, sheets, clothes and other recycleable materials. I am developing the consept forward and from that inspiration I have created the paintings of this display from recycled denim. Potential and opportunity can be found by anyone, even from the weirdest places and situations. In the back pockets like a rocket, travel the lighthearted characters, but the paintings have a serious message too. In the poor conditions of India, the colors are bright and the attitude cheery, while the physical reality can be crushingly tragic. Western tourists’ overwhelming consuming, the overconsuming of natural resources, are both symbolized in the denim, the pinnacle of the fashion industry. I try to provide an unbiased approach and to raise thoughts and discussion. What is art like and what feelings should it inspire? Ranting is pointless. Even the poorest can teach the key to the highest fortune.
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Phoeniks Bird 50 x 50 cm acrylic, mixed media on canvas 2018 35
Päivyt Niemeläinen Visual artist, MA Päivyt Niemeläinen is living and working in Helsinki, Finland. Her studies in art, art history, ethnology, archelogy and pedagogy give a rich back ground for her artistic conception and expression. She has developed her own technique, reliefpainting. SUNSET AT HARVEST is made using this three- dimensional relief process, and painted by oil. Also watercolor, like in artwork GLIMPSE, is one of her techniques. Oil paintings and mixed media techniques are her main methods. Finland’s varied nature, old great stories in the history, and human life – in good and bad - is in the focus of her art. Over the past 15 years she has made current anti-war art against greediness for money and violent oppression. Recently money has become winner, and human life is looser. Her works have been shown in 21 countries. Solo exhibitions in Finland, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and the USA. Photos of her artworks have been publishes in many international art books.
Sunset at Harvest / Viljapelto auringon laskiessa 32 x 49 cm mixed media on board, painted by oil / sekatekniikka levylle, öljymaalaus 2019
Glimpse / Vilahdus 30 x 40 cm (framed / kehystettynä 44 x 54 cm) watercolor on paper / akvarelli paperille 2019 36
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Raija Kuisma http://www.raijakuisma.fi
http://www.kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli.fi/fi/taiteilijat/3156 http://www.finnishdesigners.fi/portfolio/raija.kuisma https://www.findartglobally.com/fi/taiteilijat/art/228 https://taiko.fi/artists/raijakuisma?lang=fi Raija Kuisma lives and works in Pori, on the western coast of Finland. Closeness of the Baltic Sea, the four seasons in Finland, the diversity of flora and fauna are essential to Kuisma’s art. Raija Kuisma´s art is based on the photos she has taken around the world. She combines and layers her photos, transforming colors and textures in order to approach a visually pleasing result. Kuisma´s art is printed directly on glass, acrylic, metal or fabric using uv-printing technique. Kuisma also uses recycled materials, metal or clay in her art. Her works have been displayed vastly in museums and galleries around the world.
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Vaaleanpunainen hetki 40 x 40 cm uv-tasotulostettu valokuva Alu-Dibondille, editio 1/1 2015
Sininen hetki 40 x 40 cm uv-tasotulostettu valokuva Alu-Dibondille, editio 1/1 2015 39
Seppo Lagom Käsittelen maalauksissani luontoa ja sen monimuotoisuutta. Aihemaailmani nousee varsinaissuomalaisesta maisemasta, jonne muutin kahdeksan vuotta sitten, vanhaan taloon rytmikkäiden maisemien äärelle. Pidän kovasti näistä näkymistä. Näiden maisemien ja avarien näkymien kauneus innostaa minua tulkitsemaan niitä omien sisäisten tunteitteni kautta. Näissä maisemissa on samanmoinen henki kuin Toscanan näkymissä, joita olen saanut maalata useilla reissuillani. Teoksissani värit ja valo ovat tärkeät. Teokseni maalaan öljyväreillä kankaalle. Piirtämistä ei saa unohtaa, se on työssäni ehdoton tuki. In my paintings I deal with nature and its diversity. My subject rises from the Southwestern Finnish landscape, where I moved eight years ago to the old house near rhythmic landscapes. I like these views very much. The beauty of these landscapes and open-air views inspires me to interpret them through my own feelings. These landscapes have the same spirit as the Tuscan views, which I have been allowed to paint on many of my trips. In my works, colours and light are important. I paint my paintings with oil on canvas. Drawings should not be forgotten; it is an absolute support for my work.
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Laakso 50 x 50 cm รถljy kankaalle / oil on canvas 2017 (Valm.no 1929) 41
Sirpa Heikkinen http://ots.artoulu.fi/taiteilija/heikkinen-sirpa
Omakuva, digital Self-Potrait 2018
LinkedIn Sirpa Heikkinen
Olen pohjoissuomalaisessa kaupungissa, Oulussa, asuva independent artist. Yhdistelen menetelmiä ja työskentelytapoja. Takanani on monikymmenvuotinen toimittajan/kriitikon ura. Kerrannainen kuuluu sarjaan teoksia, jotka syntyivät vuoden 2018 Pinky Noise -näyttelyyni. Se oli huuto naisten puolesta kaikenlaista ylivaltaa vastaan. Kerrannainen voi tarkoittaa Suomen kielessä esim. monikerroksellista. Teoksen nimi yhdistää sanat kerran ja nainen. Pinky Noiseni toteuttamisalusta oli oululaisen kulttuuritalon kahvila-ravintola. Kokonaisuuteen mahtui niin keskusteluja kuin syötäviä kuvia, serigrafiaa niin paperilla kuin kankaalla, jalanjäljin maalattu kolmiopurje yläilmoissa sekä monokromaattisia valokuvatulosteita kartongille kuin myös neljän eri aikakauden naistaiteilijan elämästä sarjakuvamaisesti työstetty pöytäliina ja video. Kerrannainen edusti Pinky Noisessa teosjoukkoa, jonka toteuttamistapaa kutsutaan valokuva-akvarelliksi. Grafiikan termein toteuttamistapa on monotypia – vedostus käsiprässillä. I am an independent artist, living in Oulu, a city in Northern Finland. In my works I combine different methods. I have a background of several decades in journalism and critcs. Kerrannainen is a part of series of works that were born for my 2018 exhibition Pinky Noise. It was a cry on behalf of women, against all forms of dominance. In Finnish Kerrannainen can mean for example multilayerd. The title combines the Finnish words kerran (once) and nainen (woman). Pinky Noise exhibition’s platform was a restaurant-café in a culture center. The exhibition consisted of discussions, edible pictures, serigraphs both on paper and on canvas, a high hanging triangular sail painted with footprints and monochromatic photoprints on cardboard, as well as a tablecloth and a video composed in the style of a cartoon depicting the lives of four different women artists from different periods. In Pinky Noise Kerrannainen was part of the works in which the method is called a photographic aquarelle. In terms of printmaking: a monotype, printed with a manually operated press.
Title: Kerrannainen (kerran=once, nainen=woman) Size: 97,5 x 173,5 cm (paper), image area aprox. 90 x 167,5 cm Technique: photographic aquarelle – monotype Paper: Chinese wenzhou 30 g/m² Year: 2018 Signature: Artist’s stamp 42
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Sofia Wilkman Sofia Wilkman is a painter living in Espoo, southern Finland. Her works deal with subjects related to nature, relationships, space, traces. Layers of colors interact with graphic signs creating a visual world evoking both intellectual and emotional inspiration.
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Scaffolds of Love (Rakkauden rakennelmat) 60 x 60 cm Acryl on canvas 45
Timo Ala-Vähälä Timo Ala-Vähälä (b. 1958) is a writer and visual artist. He has given solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions since 2015. His main medium is drawing but he has also done installations and makes photographs. In addition to his own art, he has given drawing classes since 2016. “Drawing is a part of my ordinary life like moving, eating, sleeping. I do not eat healthy, sleep randomly and my artistic goals are looming. Nevertheless, each day leaves some traces to my body, mind and to the storage of my calligraphic drawings.”
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Ulla-Maija Vaittinen ullamaija.vaittinen@gmail.com www.ulla-maijavaittinen.fi
EMPTY SWINGS Photographic collage prints My current works reflect on the position of children in this violent and chaotic world. Around the world abandoned swings swing away in light as well as in shadow as symbols of both dark and sacred memories. These images of empty swings symbolise the lives of our children in the world of today. Will they ever be used again or will they remain abandoned? Ulla-Maija Vaittinen first exhibited at the National Youth Exhibition in 1972. Since then she has participated in several group and solo exhibitions. Her techniques vary from works in bronze, graphics, painting, installations, videos, frottage technique, readymade and enviromental works. Her most recent works have been videos and photograph collages. Ulla-Maijas motto is: Art may not change the world, but it can impact people´s emotions and their way of thinking and arise discussion. Vaittinen has studied at Art Industrial High School of Helsinki, now called Aalto University. She has taught visual arts in many sectors since year 1979. Vaittinen is a member of many Art societies. Ulla-Maija Vaittinen lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.
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Our Yard 41 x 56 cm valokuvakollaasivedos metallilevylle / photo collage print on metal 2017
Do Not Forget Me 41 x 56 cm photo collage print on metal / valokuvakollaasivedos metalille 2019
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Ursula Kianto www.kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli.fi/en/artists/1848 Taidemaalari Ursula Kianto asuu Helsingissä ja on suorittanut taideopintonsa vuosina 1985 – 1989 Vapaan Taidekoulun ammatillisella linjalla. Sen jälkeen on jatkunut tiivis näyttelytoiminta niin kotimaassa kuin ulkomailla maamme rajojen ulkopuolella.Ursula Kianto kertoo: Maalaaminen on minulle intohimo, alitajuinen matka jonnekin ja jossakin. Maalausteni lähtökohta on yhteys luontoon. Värien kerrostumiin sisältyy aika, muutos ja kaiken virtaaminen.
Photo taken by Tapio Lötjönen
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Ursula Kianto lives and works in Helsinki where she graduated from The Free Art School as professional painter year 1989. The paintings of Ursula Kianto are inspired by images, reflections and associations. One layer leaves some separate fragment on the painting, the next layer brings another to its side, and little by little the painting manifests itself. In most cases, the completed painting, is an abstract state of mind, where – in the middle of desolation and silence- appears to be nature and buildings. Opposing to the paintings` tranquility are the joyful and happy colors, which actually seem to be holding back their playfulness.
Vanishing decorations 40 x 35 cm รถljy MDF-levylle 2019
Artworks photographed by Ursula Kianto
Greens and pinks 40 x 35 cm รถljy MDF-levylle 2019
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CASA
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CASA, THE ART SCHOOL FOR UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN Art school CASA (Centro de Assistencia Social e Artistica) was founded in August 2005 by Helena and Edson Cardoso. Art School is ment for underprivileged children living in the favela of Cidade de Deus - City of God, in Rio de Janeiro. The school’s aim is to help these children fulfil their dreams of a better future through the power of art and to give them a constructive hobby and direction in their lives. There are currently 15 children in the school, ranging in age from 4-15 years. We hope that our work will help to prevent these children from ending up on the streets. The Finnish organization, Arte Vida Arte ry, funds CASA. The Finnish artists from our organization have been visiting Cidade de Deus and working with the children. You can also be a part or this valuable project and help give these children a better future.
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