MIIKKA VASKOLA: SLEEPWALKS 13.8-12.9.2010
Gallery Kalhama&Piippo has the pleasure of opening its autumn season 2010 with painter Miikka Vaskola’s (b.1975) solo show “Sleepwalks”, presenting new works.
Miikka Vaskola sometimes reworks the canvas sometimes heavily while he at other times he leaves the sense of blankness into the painting. For Vaskola the abstract painting is a slow place - a place for reflection. His works may at first sight seem spontaneous and even fast, but Vaskola’s painting process is actually very long. He works persistently, investigating how different materials react with the canvas.
The slowness produced by the long working progress is central for understanding Vaskola’s paintings. The works offer a chance for lingering reflection and open up as time goes by. The subtle paintings - masterly in their sense of material - let the eye wander on large surfaces. From the surface the gaze dives deep into the work where new traces or references are found and produced by the viewer’s own associations. Even Vaskola’s large paintings breathe in a human pace so the scale adjusts to the human size.
In addition to abstract landscapes Vaskola also paints realistically created figures. Both the figurative imagery and the abstract worlds in Vaskola’s art take the viewer deep into the past times.
Pilvi Kalhama
Miikka Vaskola was born in Helsinki and graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Art in 2008. He has participated actively in group shows even before his graduation. Vaskola’s last solo show was seen at the Turku Art Museum in 2008. In the summer of 2010 Vaskola took part in the Nordic Art Triennial at Eskilstuna Art Museum in Sweden and his works will also be seen in Malmö, at Galleri 21, in the year 2011.
Gallery Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary