Event
Reima Nevalainen ”Lost and gained layers”July 17, 2013 (wed) – July 29, 2013 (mon)
Admission: free
http://www.gallery-ort.info/schedule/%E2%80%A8reima-nevalainen-%E2%80%A8%E2%80%A8%E2%80%A8lost-and-gained-layers/
Artists: Reima Nevalainen
Venue
Gallery Ort Projecthttp://www.gallery-ort.info/
Access: 84-1, Okazaki Nishitennocho, Sakyo-ku
Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, 606-8341, Japan
Tel: 075-201-9631
Hours: 12:00 ~ 19:00
(last day closing at 17:00）
Closed: Tuesday
Description
Reima Nevalainen is a Finnish painter who has been living in Kyoto since autumn 2011. During his stay in Japan he has made a drawing series of 365 pieces, paintings and lots of photography. In his works one can see an artist on a journey and without a studio trying to build a diary of paintings where the experience of living in an unfamiliar environment mixes with the basic expression of the human condition. By using the human figure, structures, landscapes and nature motifs his paintings create a world where the human body is a space transforming with its every move and landscapes are like bodies lying on the earth’s crust reaching out to the space.In his paintings Reima Nevalainen uses a variety of mixed media techniques. By adding and removing layers using collage and de-collage, his paintings’ layers become visible. Painting is about both adding and removing, creation and destruction. The most central idea of his works is the realization that the material is inseparable from the subject thus turning the substance into what it’s representing.
“Whereas in photography the form is given by light, painting makes visions visible by using shadows, the same way as the mind gives form for the darkness through imagination. One could say that mind is the light in the shadows, giving a face for the things hidden or suppressed. “