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contemporary artists in la Biennale di Venezia issue DONNA CRIMINALE, A HEAVENLY VERSION 2019, ORIGINAL: INSTALLATION (TOILET PAPER) 700M X
BUNNY (NEVER) SMILES, 2019 PIGMENT ON ALUMINIUM AND ACRYLIC, LIMITED EDITION 94 X150 CM.

700 X 700 CM; IMAG: PIGMENT ON ACRYLIC 30 X 40 CM.
THORN EYE II, 2017, PIGMENT ON ALUMINIUM AND ACRYLIC, LIMITED EDITION 96,5 X 69 CM.

ULLA KARTTUNEN
Lives and works in Joensuu and Helsinki, Finland
www.ullakarttunen.com

Ulla Karttunen focuses on digital images, installations and of her materials come from the most banal commonplace
socially critical projects. She is exhibiting internationally, her reality: she constructs ephemeral sculptures from toilet paper or
art has been seen several times in London and Los Angeles, makes portraits of saints from media scrap or paints them with
and eg. Rio de Janeiro, Miami, Florence, Algiers, Rome, Paris, nail polish. Karttunen’s digital technique recycles and samples
Ljubljana, Leipzig and Berlin. Karttunen has been awarded a five- cultural anecdotes. She mingles manual methods from drawing,
year artist grant in the field of multidisciplinary art, nominated painting, tearing into various digital methods, making meditative,
finalist in several international art contests, and her installation often ecstatically overloaded Neo-Baroque works. Karttunen’s
’Donna Criminale’ was the winner in an international art prize digital works have been characterized as highly skilled, visionary,
on contemporary taboos. Karttunen is a transdisciplinary avant- paradoxical, ”horribly beautiful” or ”capturing with color, rapture,
garde artist, combining the visual with the philosophical. She devotion and dazzle”. Karttunen’s toilet paper madonna appears
could be described as a mystic meditating mythic and existential next in Aveiro, Portugal, on July 2019. Karttunen’s next solo
themes, but at the same time her works are social comments exhibition is on June-July 2019 at Museo Crocetti, Rome, Italy,
dealing themes like equality, gender, and power relations. Many under the title ’Donna Fatale’.

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