Juhana Blomstedt

Juhana Blomstedt

Thunderstorm (1066)

Morning (1067)

Möbius' dream II (1044)

Distant (1065)

Réverence (1055)

Model and artist (1049)

Carefully (1063)

Cloud at close distance (1050)

Attempt to understand (1054)

Yellow landscape (1046)

Birth (1062)

Guards (1053)

Cloud (1051)

Painter and model (1045)

Enigma in blue (1059)

Angel’s smile (1057)

St. Jean-baptiste (1041)

Enigma in yellow (1058)

Confusing landscape (1047)

Pi’s dream (1064)

Moonshine (1048)

Möbius’ dream I (1043)

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Juhana Blomstedt’s exhibition "Möbius’ Dream and Other Works" presents a series of new paintings. Having painted colour and surface, and the illusions and ambiguities achieved through them, for a long while, Blomstedt now takes as his theme the Möbius Strip, a geometrical figure created by the German mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius (1790-1868), in which one end of a strip is turned 180 degrees before the ends are joined together. Creating a vivid illusion of three-dimensionality, this figure features prominently in Blomstedt’s paintings, creating moods ranging from extreme tranquillity and calm to electrified dynamism. In the words of Matti Suurpää, who wrote the essay for the catalogue, the colours are "gentle", and the light ethereal. Many of the paintings include Blomstedt’s neon-light line of the 1960s with its horizontal or vertical movement. These paintings breathe; they are studied and exciting - both new and old-fashioned in ways equally good.