Kirsi TERVO - Paintings
31.3. – 18.4.2010

Press Release

Times painted for revisiting

Kirsi Tervo very often paints unities, where the whole is more than the sum of its parts. There may be diptychs, triptychcs, quadtychs etc. consisting of individual parts, though every part belongs essentially to the unity. The paintings base on abstract colourism and at first give the sense of harmony. Observing the nature is also apparent.

Paint and colour as means of material are essential to a painter. The themes and feelings of a painting are created by colour. Kirsi Tervo´s work unities are spaces formed by gently varied parts of different likes of sceneries. The feeling of each part is always slitghly different, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in conflict, but the whole is peaceful and lingering.

The period of time passed from a memory or some event to the present can be strongly felt in Kirsi Tervo´s paintings. The layer by layer painted, “cracked, worn” surfaces, which resemble old ceramics, add the impression of the bygone world. The works seem to be full of old stories, something once experienced, something that now has been painted visible, for revisiting. The paintings are acrylic / mixed media works.

KNS