5.10 - 28.10.2007 Juhana Blomstedt


"Bal masqué"



Clio





Aïas





Cynthia





Hypnos





Sibylla





Hypnos I





Hypnos II





Little Aimer





Golem I





Plan in Fog





Maya





Ritual





Face of Landscape





Faraway Red





Sibylla 1





Hibou




C V




Juhana Blomstedt held his first solo exhibition in 1967 at the Galerie du Haut Pavé in Paris. This was followed the next year by his first solo showing in Finland, at Galerie Artek in Helsinki.

Blomstedt is celebrating his 70th birthday this autumn, and in honour of the event and his career of four decades the Helsinki City Art Museum is staging a major retrospective at its Tennispalatsi venue. In connection with this event WSOY publishers are issuing an extensive book on the artist's oeuvre. Blomstedt's most recent works will be on display at Galerie Anhava in an exhibition entitled "Bal masqué".

Juhana Blomstedt is an artist who has developed his own vocabulary for over four decades, a personal, highly nuanced visual language. The individual "words", signs, designs and techniques that were created in different decades and possibly used less or even set aside from time to time are now combined into new "sentences", new entities along with even completely new motifs. When an individual visual theme or technique emerges once again, it arouses in the viewer both the joy of recognition and the sense of a familiar motif gaining new meanings in a new context. Each painting is thus an individual with its own content, mood, subtle rules and attendant conditions.