THE ARMORY SHOW
March 4 – 7 2010
Piers 92 & 94
New York City
STAND 1613
ANNE-KARIN FURUNES
ELINA MERENMIES
JORMA PURANEN
SANTERI TUORI
At the Armory Show 2010 Galerie Anhava will present four contemporary approaches to portraiture by Nordic artists.
Central figure in Finnish photography Jorma Puranen (born 1951) has photographed old portraits. Puranen has captured reflecting light on the surfaces of the paintings. Faces hide behind reflections that disturb looking at them. At the same time the highlight reveals wooden texture of the painting or fractures on the surface. Viewer becomes aware of time passed. In these works Puranen shows the difficulty to see clearly our past.
Jorma Puranen’s solo show at EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art will open in October 2010.
Norwegian painter Anne-Karin Furunes (born 1961) searches for individuals that were not recognised in their own time. She has found images in archives containing records of persons deported to concentration camps during World War II or those who were subjected to research classifying different types of race. She uses her own unique perforation technique. Resulting images created by holes are extremely capturing.
The artist’s solo show at the Trondheim Art Museum will open in June 2010.
Finnish painter Elina Merenmies (born 1967) uses traditional drawing techniques. Masterfully done minute inks on paper have variety of subjects from nuns to sailors. She combines elements of fear and beauty and hovers between contradictory concepts such as good and evil, unreal and real. The figures in her portraits are not necessarily from this world but still they deal with basic human issues.
In March 2010 Elina Merenmies will open a solo show at the Nordic Watercolour Museum in Skärhamn, Sweden.
Santeri Tuori (born 1970) combines the still and moving image in his intense and intriguing, slightly haunting portraits. As much as the viewer is in front of a portrait, he/she is confronted with photography and questions surrounding it.
Recent exhibitions by Santeri Tuori include Spiral Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art and and Pro Arte Foundation, St Petersburg.
