oohart艺术

Tiina Pyykkinen (b. 1983) paints with light to explore how it stimulates vision and enables the showing and hiding of things. She experiments with various combinations of light and material, studying how paints, surfaces, and illumination can be brought together to elicit unique perceptual responses. Over the years, Pyykkinen’s investigations have generated visual problems to which there are no immediate material solutions. She has therefore been impelled to take matters into her own hands – often quite literally. To achieve the desired visual impressions, Pyykkinen has fabricated her own colors and tailored them to meet the specific demands of her work. This material innovation is on full display in the remarkable iridescence of her paintings: in the way their colors change with different angles of viewing and lighting. Perhaps the most striking feature of Pyykkinen’s pictures is their three-dimensional appearance. As hologram-like objects, they transcend the limits of two-dimensionality and extend deep into their own space of representation. Pyykkinen produces this effect through a meticulous layering of paint, where each layer contributes to the overall interplay of reflected and refracted light. In themselves, the paintings are of course inert, and can only come to life through their viewers’ active participation. Indeed, Pyykkinen’s works can be said to demand and feed on the movements of the people looking at them. text by Jussi Saarinen