Exhibition release
Art Center Mältinranta, Studio
12.-29.8.2023
Seeing green (light), its shades are always in my mind – the sensitivity of the human eye and the drama of the spectrum of feeling. Nature, always nature: an eternal subject and an interpretation made of it, nothing more recent than that. Emphasizing the relationship with nature may create a pit of moralistic ecologicalism for its author and, as such, an evergreen pedestal. Maybe I’ll stay in between to flicker and create atmosphere for a connection that keeps getting out of hand. I interfere and penetrate nature, I want to merge, to be absorbed back into the flow. The prism of the psyche creates a beautiful thought that embroids a pleasurable fabric. The rainbow bridge doesn’t appear until the dry gets wet with colors – ugh, the porous meanings repeat.
I floated on the river and the colors faded. I turned into water, the surface shimmered in the light.
Here you can breathe colors, fire and other elements. Compulsive and tasteless, this collapsed composition: atmosphere, deer (Huittinen), wreaths, mental, memory of water, what is happening, earth, dust, summer night, heartbeat, waterlily, violet, grove, anemone – –
There is something unifying in my works without regularity. Symbols and tags create associations with the known and the strange, pictorial writing. I load everything there is into the paintings until there is nothing left: a trembling feeling, an empty space, silence, a break. Watercolors create a transparent experience, fragile layers, mutually reflecting spaces and time levels.
Animals, people and objects are catalysts for inner sound, energy flow, impulse, mental exercise.. A similar stoppage of gesture and narration can happen in a performance, where improvisation and composition with objects are born until they lose the meaning given to them and grow into some kind of selfish force, breaking between objects when they come to them, to abstraction.
Green aspen leaves, blue ball, Prussian blue, spaces after spaces, infinite, surface, landscape, Turner, salmon rise, color of water, pets, colors are tinted, emotional blue, compulsive green, pink collapse, feels strange..
Spektri – Pathological green is a fantasy world between meaning and meaninglessness. There, the atmosphere is created by means of vague expressionism and formless starting points. The language breaks into sounds in the cross wave of two languages (Finnish, English), the gesture that produces the symbol is interrupted and the direction changes.
I paint what I feel, what I have seen and experienced. The works exceed my aspirations, forming unexpected settings and force fields. Theatricality changes in an instant to a feeling about some detail. The paintings are born in time and place, I myself perform in the middle of this emergence. I think of paintings as intensities, bodily experiences and different directions of gaze. In my paintings, the atmosphere develops between the dramatic and the pathetic. I use automatism to find starting points for the work from the subconscious: relationships between shapes and lines and surreal transformations.
Keywords:
Spektri – Spectrum: see above.
Pathological is a fantastic, mythical green (viridian green is insanely beautiful!).
Psyches are just like before and too beautiful for the apocalyptic saloon.
Moss and wreaths are something you need to touch.
Painting: rules apply and don´t ..
I paint with watercolors and acrylics on canvas, in addition I use chalks, pencils, ink and charcoal.
Working on the exhibition has been supported by Art Promotion Center Finland.
IIDA NIKITIN 