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Summer Exhibition at Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, from June 4 to August 1, 2015

Summer Exhibition at Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, from June 4 to August 1, 2015







Jiri Dokoupil (b. 1954, Czech Republic)
The paintings of Jiri Dokoupil continue his series of Soap bubbles. The clear soap bubbles on the canvas are the result of Dokoupils own paint mixture, consisting of pigment nuances and Lye Soap.

Mark Francis (b. 1962, Ireland)
Mark Francis’ paintings appear initially abstract, but his works also contain figurative elements. A thin layer of paint covers a grid motif, creating multiple dimensions that invite us to simultaneously behold the surface and explore behind each layer.

Susanne Gottberg (b. 1964, Finland)
Susanne Gottberg’s motifs comprise those quiet, tense moments and situations in which something has just departed or will soon occur. A sense of expectation lingers throughout the interiors, furniture, fabrics, reflections, and details the artist has painted.

Secundino Hernández (b. 1975, Spain)
The youthful exuberance of Secundino Hernández' paintings lie somewhere between figuration and abstraction. The blend of colors and the cartoon-like borders are outlined not on the palette but rather directly onto the canvas.

Jenni Hiltunen (b. 1981, Finland)
The paintings in the summer exhibition are generated from the random bizarre poses and fashion world phenomena that recur throughout the internet’s flood of images.

Donald Baechler (b. 1956, USA)
Donald Baechler's work references the American pop-art tradition. However, the images that he chooses from countless sources ultimately contain societal relevance: Baechler’s works explore the language of cultural symbols.

Sami Lukkarinen (b. 1976, Finland)
Sami Lukkarinen examines profile pictures one pixel at a time, and creates a richly textured oil painting with a palette knife, transforming the perfect digital photo into a humanized, multi-hued painting.

Jason Martin (b. 1979, UK)
Jason Martin creates masterfully illusions of depth. His works are steeped in materiality, movement and a powerful physicality in quite a sensual way.

Bjarne Melgaard (b. 1967, Norway)
Bjarne Melgaard’s paintings’ compositions are dominated by organized chaos, which he has materialized via the momentum of creation: acrylic paint is poured on the floor and splashed directly onto the canvas.

Leena Nio (b. 1982, Finland)
Leena Nio’s experimentation with stacking layers of images creates an expanded sense of space and depth. The enigmatically painted layers hide or reveal motifs, and offer a glimpse through a portal into another world.

Jussi Niva (b. 1966, Finland)
In the new pieces by Jussi Niva the two-dimensional board has been exchanged for three-dimensional, more sculptural pieces. The works are spatial montages: folded layers, or overlapping depictions of spatial orientations.

Julian Opie (b. 1958, UK)
Sculptor and media artist Julian Opie is known for digitally manipulated images reduced to contours and colour planes. The works bare references to the tradition of Minimalism and Pop Art.

Riiko Sakkinen (b. 1976, Finland)
Riiko Sakkinen’s paintings contain a sense of familiarity due to their surrounding commercial context involving things such as bags of potato chips and Disney animation characters. They aim to make global capitalism visible.

Kim Simonsson (b. 1974, Finland)
Kim Simonsson often deploys different techniques ’s when manipulating the surfaces of his ceramic sculptures. The Monopolyman, on view in the summer exhibition, holds a mirror-like platinum covering: the viewer can see his or her own reflection in the exploiter caricature.

Raili Tang (b. 1950, Finland)
Known for her large expressive paintings, Raili Tang will show her new collage paintings. The collage functions as the paintings’ base, while the surface is covered with a thick layer of acrylic paint and thinner gold and silver-plating. Tang stresses the works’ materiality.

Hannu Väisänen (b. 1951, Finland)
Visual artist and writer Hannu Väisänen continues the examination of nature.
The rivers arise in the artist’s works to become moments captured like still life arrangements.