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PEDRO JAIME RIVA - ARGENTINA - exhibition


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    The opening is on Tuesday April 27 at 19.00.

    The Argentina artist Pedro Riva has been as an artist in residence in art centre Saksala ArtRadius for 3 months. During these months he has worked on two big projects. The first one is a series of large paintings on canvas (2.60x4.00 meter) and the other series are collage books.

    To be able to work effectively the artist has created his huge paintings are  on the floor of one of the workspaces in the basement of the art center. This is not a regular way of working for an artist. It is not possible to have distance to the work. Pedro Riva is not looking for this common way of art production. His physical participation in his paintings is related to the way of working of Jackson Pollock.

    He also uses different kind of materials to increase the expression of the work. The added collages are used in the way as if this is a painting material and is creating a specific surface on the canvas. His work is very colorful and creates an own personal world in which the viewer can be find every time new inspiration.

    The series of collage books are remarkable. The original books about e.g. the first world war are page by page covered with parts from  current promotion material, magazines, paint, etc. The original images and text are part of the collages and strengthen the impression of the a world that is past and in the same time current. The pages are the personal reply of the artist on the content of the book and he creates a fascinating atmosphere in several layers.

    Artist quote: "These canvases mix painting and collage as water with oil. When I see them it makes me wonder that there is no blood in the author veins, but synthetic enamel. It is a machine invented by some strange dead painters’ organization to walk over canvases leaving its veins make all the work.

    On those books I feel some strange force that brings good and evil old spirits back to life. Now they can have ancient conversations in a telepathic language transmitted only by the unconscious.

    Finland is a place where silence and winter are dark. Behind the same sun is always shinning."

    You are welcome to see these remarkable works by your self.

    Estas telas mezclan el collage y la pintura, como el aceite y el agua. Cuando las veo pienso que no corre sangre por las venas de su autor, sino esmalte sintético. Es una maquina inventada por una extraña organización de pintores muertos para caminar por encima de una tela y dejar sus venas pintar.

    En sus cuadernos siento una extraña fuerza que convoca viejos espíritus del bien y del mal. Los trae a la vida y sin juicio los deja tener diálogos en una lengua transmitida telepáticamente mediante el inconsciente.

    Finlandia es un lugar donde el silencio y el invierno son oscuros. Detrás de todo eso siempre brilla el mismo sol.

    Arts Council Finland
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