WORKS ON PAPER ASSORTED TUUKKA TAMMISAARI

ASSORTED TUUKKA TAMMISAARI 29. MARCH - 28. APRIL 2019 Tuukka Tammisaari is in his work refreshingly unorthodox. With great boldness and often with a pictorial world of berries, leaves and other organic formation known from nature he moves from quite small to mighty canvases and from images with a variety of colors and recognisable forms to a surprising reduction and simplicity. In some ways it is as if we are facing a young painter's hymn to his time. In 2013, the political scientist and author Jane Bennett wrote the essay "Vegetal life and onto Sympathy. Bennett is contemplating how plants and plant life forms might make us rethink the notion of sympathy. She talks about how the vegetality of humans and the vegetality of plants can somehow communicate ; how we can maybe learn from the plant within ourselves. In Bennet's interpretation there is no difference between man and what is around man. It is, in other words, the same substance, same matter, same materialism. Man is not exceptional. Everything has vitality. "Explaining Nature" is the title of one of Tuukka Tammisaari's paintings. What do we see on the canvas? Which explanation are we offered? Tammisaari's shapes, figurative as non-figurative, indulge, carry, embrace, touch, shield, reject, unfold. And they rot. As an observer of wilderness his colour choices and brush strokes become a soulhaptic personification of Mother Nature's simple yet profoundly complex logic and primeval language. He imitates the characters of the seasons, the rhythm of the day and the essence of the plants and reminds us of our kinship with vegetation and the connectedness with the living and organic around us. Tuukka Tammisaari er med sin vegetabile motivverden forfriskende uortodoks. Med stor frimodighed bevæger han sig fra dels ganske små til mægtige lærreder og fra billeder med en mængde farver og genkendelige former til en overraskende reduktion og enkelhed. Hvad jeg ikke kan mæle, må jeg male. Det er som står vi over for en ung malers salme til sin samtid. I 2013 skrev den amerikanske filosof og forfatter Jane Bennett essayet Vegetal life and onto Sympathy. Bennett overvejer her, hvordan planter og deres livsformer kan få os til at gentænke begrebet sympati. Hun fortæller om, hvordan menneskers og planters vegetabilitet på en eller anden måde kan kommunikere med hinanden"; hvordan kan vi måske lære af planten i os selv. I Bennets fortolkning er der ingen forskel mellem mennesket, og hvad der er omkring mennesket. Det er med andre ord samme stof, samme materie, samme materialisme. Mennesket er ikke exceptionelt. Alt har vitalitet. Explaining Nature er titlen på et af Tuukka Tammisaaris malerier. Hvad er der på færde på lærredet? Hvilken forklaring er det vi tilbydes? Tammisaaris former, figurative som non-figurative, giver sig hen, de løfter, bærer, holder om, berører, de skærmer, byder sig til, omslutter, tager imod, viser bort, de folder sig ud. Og de rådner. Som vildnissets observatør bliver hans farvevalg og penselstrøg en form for sjælehaptiske personificeringer af Moder Naturs enkle og samtidig dybt komplekse logik og ursprog. Han imiterer årstidernes karakterer, døgnets rytme og væksternes essens og minder os om vores slægtsskab med vegetationen og forbundetheden med det levende og organiske omkring os. The exhibition is generously supported by; Arts Promotion Centre Finland The Finnish Cultural Institute in Denmark

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TUUKKA TAMMISAARI Born 1984 in Lahti, Finland. BA, Lahti University of Applied Sciences Institute of Fine Arts in 2008. MFA, Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki 2014- Lives and works in Helsinki, Finland REPRESENTATION KANT - Copenhagen Kristof De Clercq - Ghent Galerie Forsblom - Helsinki SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2019 Assorted, KANT, Copenhagen, Denmark GSL Projekt, Berlin, Germany Mantle, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki 2017 Mise en place, KANT, Copenhagen, Denmark 2016 After Mudnight, Maw, New York, USA 2016 Turtle And The Maize Grain, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki 2015 Private Show, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki 2014 Future Nostalgia, Kluuvin Galleria, Helsinki 2013 Zu, Galleria Jangva, Helsinki 2013 Works On Paper, Lahti Kiosk of Contemporary Art, Lahti 2012 Persona Bazaar, Malmitalon galleria, Helsinki 2012 The Sick Man of Europe, Tm Galleria, Helsinki 2011 La Vida Loca, Galleria Saskia,Tampere 2010 Vesikauhu, sedaatio ja penseys, Galleria Oyoy, Lahti 2010 Paintings, Galleria Orton, Helsinki GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019 The Island Show, Galleri KANT, Fanø, Denmark 2019 Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland (w/joona Pakkanen & Hermanni Keko) Five Positions - Kristof De Clercq - Ghent 2017 The Island Show, Galleri KANT, Fanø, Denmark 2017 Looking Forward, Torbandena Projects, Trieste, Italy 2016 Främmande, Fullersta Gård, Stockholm, Sweden 2016 Kuvan Kevät, Forum Box, Helsinki 2016 Haava, Seppo Fränti collections, Lapinlahti Hospital, Helsinki 2015 Faith, Lokal, Helsinki 2015 Size Matters, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki 2015 Absent, (w/ Henrik Heinonen and Tiina Palmu), Exhibition Laboratory Project Room, Helsinki 2015 What Is To Be Done, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki 2015 Ars Kärsämäki 2015, Kärsämäki 2015 What is Surface, Exhibition Laboratory Project Room, Helsinki 2014 Mikä Pahan Tappaisi, (w/ Joona Pakkanen and Hermanni Keko), Galleria Huuto, Helsinki 2014 Reality Loop, VEST, Aarhus, Denmark 2013 Turning Point, Lahti Kiosk of Contemporary Art, Lahti 2013 Sharp Hands, (w/ Aleksi Laisi), Galleria Uusikuva, Kotka 2012 Soundtrack For Painting, Lahti Kiosk of Contemporary Art, Lahti 2012 A Circle and the Cannibal (w/ Joona Pakkanen, Poriginal, Pori 2010 Laisi / Tammisaari (w/ Aleksi Laisi), Taidekeskus Ahjo, Joensuu 2007 BFA Degree Show, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki 2007 BFA Degree Show, Taidepanimo, Lahti RESIDENCIES, PROJECTS, FAIRS AND COMMISSIONED WORKS 2019 Group presentation with Kristof De Clerqc, Art Rotterdam Solo presentation with KANT, Art Rotterdam 2017 Annual scarf, Samuji, Helsinki 2016 Villiyrttiviidakko, Restaurant Grön, Helsinki 2016 Leimay Cave, Residency, New York, USA 2016 Cover illustration, Paperi-T Post-Alfa book 2016 Cover illustration, Psykologi magazine 2016 Wall painting, Samuji, Helsinki 2015 Sound piece, Antichambre, Flow Festival, Helsinki 2015 Academy of Fine Arts residency, Berliini, Saksa 2014 Tools for action, Performative lecture, Kuva/Tila, Helsinki 2013 Tahiti Project, Galleria Tischenko, Helsinki (w/ Sándor Vály) COLLECTIONS Samuji - Finland, Collection Jette & Mauri Christiansen - Copenhagen Seppo Fränti Collection - Helsinki, Van Roon Beheer Collection - Holland Marleen Molenaar Collection - Hong Kong Private collections in Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Holland, Belgium, France, Austrailia, USA