Samu Raatikainen: Paintings
Artist Samu Raatikainen's exhibition features his open-ended interpretations of faraway stardust landscapes and nature's details. His paintings are made of mixed-media panels placed together, and with the resulting paintings form a space where the abstract and the figurative interact. Juxtaposing these images changes the nature and meaning in the individual panels. The panels take on other "personalities" and turn into unrecognisable spaces, which are constructed using the interplay of light and dark colours.
The paintings bring together active images with reflective or slow, silent, monochromatic panels. This introduces unusual time into the painting's content and viewer experience. Time is also highlighted by the fact that the images of some of the paintings were completed at different times. Some might have been forgotten for a long time but were rescued when they were placed as parts of later productions. This juxtaposition creates a tension: rediscovered images are displayed with minimalist panels in carefully considered arrangement and composition.
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Artist Samu Raatikainen's exhibition features his open-ended interpretations of faraway stardust landscapes and nature's details. His paintings are made of mixed-media panels placed together, and with the resulting paintings form a space where the abstract and the figurative interact. Juxtaposing these images changes the nature and meaning in the individual panels. The panels take on other "personalities" and turn into unrecognisable spaces, which are constructed using the interplay of light and dark colours.
The paintings bring together active images with reflective or slow, silent, monochromatic panels. This introduces unusual time into the painting's content and viewer experience. Time is also highlighted by the fact that the images of some of the paintings were completed at different times. Some might have been forgotten for a long time but were rescued when they were placed as parts of later productions. This juxtaposition creates a tension: rediscovered images are displayed with minimalist panels in carefully considered arrangement and composition.
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