Marianna Uutinen – New paintings
Galerie Forsblom, October 28 – November 20, 2011
Marianna Uutinen (b.1961) is showing her new layered acrylic painting at Galerie Forsblom. The works raise the question of what is essential in the perception of the surface, the material and the modern reality. In her exhibited works Uutinen continues her practice of painting the material of her paintings and then putting them together again as paintings.
Uutinen’s layered acrylic paintings play with kitsch, allurement and charm. With their colours and plasticity they allure the viewer to participate in a perceptual game. Uutinen’s paintings tell about this moment and this time, being here and now, in today’s world. In her new works the artist’s palette moves between bright primary colours, girlish aniline, glamorous gold, and mysterious black.
Uutinen’s painting process has become more intuitive and is getting closer to action painting. What is unusual, is her way of building her works from creased strips of acrylic paintings. The three-dimensional paintings break into the surrounding space like sculptures. They point to the physicality of the painting where the material and the metaphor mix. From abstract projections concrete perceptions of the modern reality are created. Uutinen’s works are also paintings of paintings that are aware of the act of painting.
Marianna Uutinen is one of the leading names in contemporary Finnish art. She is originally from Pieksämäki, but lives and works nowadays in Berlin and Helsinki. Uutinen has had important solo exhibitions, among others a retrospective travelling exhibition in Kunsthalle Helsinki and the Art museums of Turku, Mikkeli and Kouvola. Uutinen has had important group exhibitions in Finland and she has participated in a number of international group exhibitions in Europe and the USA. In 1997 she took part in the Venice Biennale.
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