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Jorma Puranen is a Finnish Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1951. Their work is currently being shown at MNHA Luxembourg. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The Finnish Museum of Photography, The Cable Factory have featured Jorma Puranen's work in the past.Jorma Puranen's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 547 USD to 26,395 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2007 the record price for this artist at auction is 26,395 USD for Icy prospects (no. 17), sold at Christie's London in 2007. Jorma Puranen has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Studio International in August 2025.
With 11 artists and more than 100 works, the wonders of the natural world are stunningly brought to life in this year鈥檚 Space to Breathe summer art exhibition, in collaboration with Purdy Hicks Gallery
If you visit Purdy Hicks you are likely to meet one of the very approachable directors, Nicola Shane or Rebecca Hicks 鈥 Jayne Purdy stays more in the background, as does Rebecca鈥檚 husband, curator and writer Alistair.
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..Puranen photographs the model's face will remain in the background, light and shadows play brings familiarity to replace sensitivity and a sense of strangeness, a fleeting moment, and power for centuries...
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..By a face veil strangest lights and varjoin, Puranen creates models of the face of a new kind of mystery and opens our eyes to the fate of the models...
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..Puranen states "for fifteen years I have been engaged in landscape projects in which I have prevented direct admiration of the natural scenery by putting something in between the viewer and the subject鈥...
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