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contemporary artists in la Biennale di Venezia issue DARING THROUGH THE NIGHT IN VENICE, ACRYLIC, 2014 ACRYLIC AND OIL ON CANVAS 130 X 96 CM.
COMMUNICATION, 2016 ACRYLIC AND OIL ON CANVAS 134 X 94 CM.

NATURALLY BEAUTIFUL ALSO NEEDS MAKE-UP, 2016 ACRYLIC AND OIL ON CANVAS 134 X 94 CM.

SEPPO KARI
Lives and works in Seinäjoki, Finland
www.seppokari.fi

Seppo Kari was born in Seinäjoki, a city in western Finland, where his paintings as faux collage clippings, floating above the simulated
today he works from his studio. Home to unique architecture, levels and textures, pristine and untouched, bright and eye-
including that of the famous Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto, arresting.
Seinäjoki is a point of inspiration for Kari, who began his graphic Kari works primarily in a palette of purples, blues and reds. Acrylic,
design career in 1964, and, by the late 60`s, had embarked on his oil, and crayon are his mediums of choice, though Kari also works
own artistic path. Working from a surrealist perspective, Kari`s digitally and with serigraphs. Technique can be taught, but Kari
paintings have the feeling of a large series, by sharing various believes that self-expression must develop through personal
motifs: checkerboard floors, floating sunshade umbrellas, and exploration. Asked what sets his work apart from other artists, Kari
partially completed female figures are prominently featured in his says: “I paint the `black light´. My night is not gloomy, but I like to
work. Common too are Renaissance-inspired figures that appear in describe a distinctive world you cannot see in the daylight.”

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