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KOIRUUKSIA (DOGGIES), MIXED TECHNIQUE 51.8X36.2 IN. | 130X92 CM. Art education Vapaa Taidekoulu (Free Art School),
Helsinki, Finland. I use a variety of techniques and mixed
INVITED ARTIST techniques in my paintings. My painting subjects are
PÄIVÄUNET (NAP), MIXED TECHNIQUE 51.8X36.2 IN. | 130X92 CM.
nowadays color paintings containing hidden figurative
animal figures and myths.

PENTTI SAKSALA

Lives and works in Kirkkonummi, Finland
https://kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli.fi/taiteilija/pentti-saksala

All contemporary art, in fact, is
nothing other than a reflection of the
idea or philosophy of a transversal,
complex and at times even
incomprehensible (if superficially
interrogated) cultural era. This is why
it seems ever more willing to provide
innovative spatial dimensions, new
temporal dynamics. It attempts
to represent the interior world
of man. It simulates the feelings,
sensations, emotions that he would
be experiencing if he were faced
with his own thoughts and wanted to
completely traverse these thoughts.
A work of art is thus the end result
of a specific process – possessing a
specific form and aesthetic, it serves
no purpose except that of channeling
a very specific form of energy. It
is always a sort of communicative
performance. It allows man to plumb
his own conscience and to void it. In
fact, it is only within empty spaces
that energy is able to unleash its
own creative force. Consequently,
by asking how to develop this energy
in the face of the complexity of the
world, questioning the need for free
mental space, man is experiencing a
journey where reality and the virtual
go hand in hand: two dimensions
which are no longer disjoined, in that
the virtual is nothing other than an
“as-if” reality.
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