KUVAN KEVÄT 2023
Academy of Fine Arts
University of the Arts, Helsinki
6 May - 4 June 2023
KUVAN KEVÄT is the annual MFA Degree Show of the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki. Kuvan Kevät presents new works by emerging artists from the Academy’s four study areas: Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Time and Space Arts. Year 2023 Kuvan Kevät showcases works by 43 art students that are finishing their MFA degree.
What we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow
― Ovid, Metamorphoses
The Structural Colour Paintings reflect on metamorphosis, – how nature’s cycle of growth and decay is also ultimately intertwined with human impermanence. I am searching for a new language of painting that responds to our contemporary experience of a changing world. I strive to create paintings that change in front of the viewer's eye, that react to temperature or light, that emerge from the surface of the painting as a thick mass.
I INCORPORATE ORGANIC MATERIAL, such as taxidermy, plants, and bioplastic 3D prints into my work. My process is guided by an idea of the cycle of matter, and of colour as an indicator revealing this change.
THE RAINBOW-LIKE STRUCTURAL COLOUR is created by wavelengths of light, rather than by pigment. This alchemical process has demanded many nights in the materials science laboratory testing various alcohols and solvents. I've also learned to whip up a damn good whiskey sour.
I INCORPORATE ORGANIC MATERIAL, such as taxidermy, plants, and bioplastic 3D prints into my work. My process is guided by an idea of the cycle of matter, and of colour as an indicator revealing this change.
THE RAINBOW-LIKE STRUCTURAL COLOUR is created by wavelengths of light, rather than by pigment. This alchemical process has demanded many nights in the materials science laboratory testing various alcohols and solvents. I've also learned to whip up a damn good whiskey sour.
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