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Johanna Ehrnrooth: Chrysalis
The retrospective exhibition fills Kunsthalle Helsinki with Johanna Ehrnrooth鈥檚 paintings. Radiating both tenderness and quiet strength, the paintings draw the viewer to the threshold where reality blurs into illusion.
Johanna Ehrnrooth鈥檚 (1958鈥�2020) bold paintings lure the viewer into a soft, beguiling labyrinth. Throughout her career, from the early figurative works to the late abstractions, she cultivated a visual language that resisted clear interpretation: subtle veils of color, fragmented reflections, and shimmering surfaces are layered to create works that suggest and whisper, as if from the space between dreaming and waking.
Chrysalis is a retrospective exhibition with an emphasis on Johanna Ehrnrooth鈥檚 later works. In her last years, the artist moved toward abstraction. The subtle presence of French and Japanese artistic traditions, visible in her earlier works, continues to resonate in these compositions, where the visual language has grown ever more allusive and poetic. Also the title of the exhibition refers to transformation and evolution; Chrysalis means the intermediate phase of a caterpillar into a butterfly.
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The retrospective exhibition fills Kunsthalle Helsinki with Johanna Ehrnrooth鈥檚 paintings. Radiating both tenderness and quiet strength, the paintings draw the viewer to the threshold where reality blurs into illusion.
Johanna Ehrnrooth鈥檚 (1958鈥�2020) bold paintings lure the viewer into a soft, beguiling labyrinth. Throughout her career, from the early figurative works to the late abstractions, she cultivated a visual language that resisted clear interpretation: subtle veils of color, fragmented reflections, and shimmering surfaces are layered to create works that suggest and whisper, as if from the space between dreaming and waking.
Chrysalis is a retrospective exhibition with an emphasis on Johanna Ehrnrooth鈥檚 later works. In her last years, the artist moved toward abstraction. The subtle presence of French and Japanese artistic traditions, visible in her earlier works, continues to resonate in these compositions, where the visual language has grown ever more allusive and poetic. Also the title of the exhibition refers to transformation and evolution; Chrysalis means the intermediate phase of a caterpillar into a butterfly.
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