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Santeri Tuori's (born 1970) solo exhibition about a year ago featured,
along with fascinating portraits combining black-and-white stills with
video in colour, his almost monochrome piece entitled "Sea". Now Tuori will
exhibit what is in a way the opposite of this work, "Waterfall"
photographed in Iceland. Where "Sea" was horizontal, calmly swaying and its
greatness and depth could only be guessed, "waterfall" is vertical with a
definite, recurring and almost threatening movement - the sense of threat
is enhanced by its audioscape of the din of a waterfall. We also see how
the water strikes the ground and we sense its immense mass and power. But
this piece is neither frightening nor fearsome. In keeping with the
traditions of romantic painting, a powerful natural phenomenon distanced
into art is ennobled and becomes poetic.
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