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THE LAST NIGHT OF HUMAN RIGHTS, 2018 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 19.6X19.6 IN. | 50X50 CM.
INVITED ARTIST

SINIKKA ELFVING

Lives and works in Buskerud, Norway
http://www.sinikkaelfvingartist.com

In the works of Sinikka Elfving there is a great spirituality with notes depicted in new evocative forms, focusing a resolutive dialog with
and contents of great visual emotion, a singular Nordic expressionism her figures hidden by a spiritual symbolism deliberately distorted
motivated by her particular inner need, to communicate through in the descriptive contours of the figure wandering in the garden of
the canvas, her memories, her life spent at the service of society Eden decorated with flowers and ancestral symbols, a painting with
remaining highly influenced by it. Everything is expressed in an strong emotional character which wants to express itself in distress
elegant form of gesture and composition modulating the color of the expressed symbolically with chromatic accentuation and extreme sign
material through its personal creative freedom, thus creating works deformation, sometimes expressed with strong incisiveness of color,
with the strong visual impact and communitarian visions closely sometimes evoking silent surreal scenes with vogue references to a
linked to her operations. Therefore those of our Finnish painter Sinikka timbre of excotism, forerunner of a current society that falters.
creates fades and formulations of recurring scenes revisited and (Francesco Chetta, publisher)

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