To Dream, to Collect
Green Innermost
Size
72 x 42 x 10 cm
28.35 x 17 x 3.94 in
Reference
fd688a52
Year
2018
Medium
Paintings , Sculpture
Oil on board, 47 x 72 x 10 cm.
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Jussi Niva (Pello, Finland, 1966). “I am currently painting two-dimensional surfaces and three-dimensional objects in parallel because I want to detach the experience of three- dimensionality from the ‘modelled form’ and link it instead to the surface of the painting. The three-dimensional works are interventions of sorts, they thrust into the space but conversely, they also project space. Viewers find themselves in a danger zone or embroiled in something that exists independently of them. The eventfulness in my works is generally not logical; I am interested in seemingly impossible spatiality. I construct spatial paradoxes into my works, surfaces of collision or friction that seem to lead to a destination. I need geometry for some reason. But my geometry is of a kind of cut-and-fold type”.
About the Artists
About the Gallery
Address
Cologne, Bruesseler Strasse 56
Galerie Biesenbach was founded in 2012 and is run by its owner Stéphane Biesenbach. Biesenbach’s exhibition rooms are located in downtown Cologne’s gallery quarter, on St.-Apern-Strasse 44-46, 50667 Köln. The focus of our work is set on international and contemporary art. We attach importance to achieve a balance between figurative and abstract posi...