{"id":4657,"date":"2024-09-10T17:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.espoonkuvataiteilijat.fi\/?post_type=nayttelyt&#038;p=4657"},"modified":"2024-09-30T11:07:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T08:07:46","slug":"mika-vesalahti","status":"publish","type":"nayttelyt","link":"https:\/\/www.espoonkuvataiteilijat.fi\/en\/nayttelyt\/mika-vesalahti\/","title":{"rendered":"Mika Vesalahti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Triton \u2013 Studies of Harmony<br><em>Welcome to the opening of the exhibition on Tuesday 1st October, from 5 to 7 pm.<\/em> <em>At the opening ceremony, the Juvenalia choir quartet will perform madrigals from the 16th century.<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I am interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.<br>-Mark Rothko<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout a career as a painter, I have been thinking about the relationship between painting and reality. This includes questions of the political nature of painting and its ability to convey a message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My aim is therefore to summarise in a series of paintings the tensions of our time, in the midst of which the individual is distressed and at a loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The starting point for my series of paintings is the relationship between painting and music. In musical art, the <em>tritone interval<\/em> has been used to depict conflicting tensions, violence, suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wassily Kandinsky sought a relationship between music and harmonies of colour in his work. The colours resonate in a field of spirituality. The composer Arnold Schoenberg wrote his thesis<em> Harmonielehre<\/em>. However, as we move into modern times, art\u02b9s aspirations to spirituality and harmony have been called into question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our world is characterised by tearing contradictions in the form of violent power struggles, the destruction of nature and climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The question is: is it possible to achieve harmony in art (in the world)? Can painting deal with the violence of the world, bring conflicts together, liberate the repressed and make the process holistic? I am interested in this element of freedom in painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps the timeliness of painting comes from its ability to suggest and create layering rather than direct representation, much like music. The tensions of our time, the hopes and threats, can be found in the alternation between masses of colour and thin layers, at the intersection of emptiness and fullness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The paintings in the series form a whole, with the smaller paintings acting as alphabets for the idiosyncratic grammar of the larger paintings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Artwork: Mika Vesalahti, Triton III, mixed media on canvas, 290 x 400 cm, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mika Vesalahti<\/strong> (1967, Helsinki) is a painter who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1992. <br>He works on series of paintings, such as the monumental HELLGOD\u02b9S MACHINE I-VII (2017-20). Internationality is essential for him, both in the form of exhibitions and residencies.<br>The artist writes and publishes art essays.<br>Vesalahti lives and works in Helsinki and Viljandi, Estonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espoonkuvataiteilijat.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Curriculum-Vitae24short.pdf\">CV<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli.fi\/en\/artist\/mika-vesalahti\">Artist Register<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/finnishpainters.fi\/painter\/finnish-painter-mika-vesalahti\/\">Finnish Painters<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/theartistmikavesalahti\/\">Instagram<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Thank you for supporting my work, The Finnish Cultural Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skr.fi\/en\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"146\" src=\"https:\/\/www.espoonkuvataiteilijat.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/skr_Logo_vihrea_150px.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1720\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4656,"template":"","tags":[124,105,265],"class_list":["post-4657","nayttelyt","type-nayttelyt","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-abstractart","tag-abstractpainting","tag-contemporary-art"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - 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