In Jyrki Set\u00e4l\u00e4\u2019s works, cut-out pieces, long cherished scraps and bundles of lines wander and settle at a convenient conversational distance. Unexpected encounters between those shreds and scraps create new tensions. The author holds a silent conversation with his elements and it feels as if they\u2006 \u2006 also communicate with each other. Occasionally one topic takes over the entire surface, while some others sink into the color fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometimes it feels as if chatter fills the entire surface of the painting, at other times only a quiet murmur can be heard. In the works, you can sense the structure and architecture of long conversations. The temporal process in Set\u00e4l\u00e4\u2019s creation can be deduced, but we only see fragments of its course. The works can be placed in the context and tradition of abstract art and thus be viewed in a restrained manner, in a modernist sense, deprived of references.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, their warm and even humorous spirit also evokes and plays with associations. With Set\u00e4l\u00e4\u2019s subjects, the viewer is close to recognition. On this fine border, like under a thin film, the subjects remain barely non-representative. I don\u2019t believe Set\u00e4l\u00e4 himself constructs his works as narratives, nor would he imagine features or history for his elements. His processes don\u2019t have a fixed goal or accurate script. He progresses from one solution to another and settles down again to ponder his next move. Sometimes the unfinished piece might desire a self-provoking gesture or element that pushes and accelerates the sleepy phase in a new direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The work progresses at a variable tempo. What we can see is the last stage of a series of events. Set\u00e4l\u00e4 has collected heaps of materials in his studio, from which he searches and selects suitable pieces. It is a place where the author gently controls chance and arranges opportunities for happy accidents to occur. In the end, a fairly solid world will emerge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2013 Mikko Rantanen<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jyrki Set\u00e4l\u00e4 is an Espoo based visual artist, he finished his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1998. Set\u00e4l\u00e4\u2019s last solo exhibition was in gallery Topelius, Helsinki 2021 and a group exhibition in Keuruu museum, summer 2021. His work is found in the collections including the City of Helsinki, Rovaniemi Art Museum and Vexi Salmi\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy work is characterized by combining collage and painting as an organically growing process. Open curiosity as the work progresses, listening to the work\u2019s suggestions and negotiating with it guides the work.\u201d
Jyrki Set\u00e4l\u00e4<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Photo: Jyrki Set\u00e4l\u00e4, Color meadow, 110\u00d7135 cm, akryyli ja paperi, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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