Tiina Mielonen: Bloom
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki
March 10 – April 3, 2016
TIINA MIELONEN (b. 1974) borrows motifs for her paintings from postcard scenery and travel brochures. Bloom is a series of works based on Parisian parks in springtime, notably Parc Monceau with its colorful history. Claude Monet is said to have painted there, and the park was also once even the site of a massacre. Tiina Mielonen presents familiar themes in a surprising, psychedelically alienated form. There is a cinematic, complicated tension between the artificially constructed and natural elements in her compositions: personal memories collide with moments of transcendence of reality in a theatre-like, minimalistic space.
Tiina Mielonen paints her landscapes on Plexiglas. The shininess of the oil paint creates a floaty, immaterial effect. Her forceful brushstrokes endow the landscapes with a feeling of transience. As paint dries quickly on Plexiglas, Tiina Mielonen plans her compositions carefully beforehand and paints them rapidly in one session. The artist manipulates form and color, abstracting the motif to such a degree that the original source is no longer recognizable.
TIINA MIELONEN graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Art in 2003 and has taken part in numerous exhibitions abroad. She has held artist’s residencies in Paris, Rotterdam and Mazzano Romano in Italy. Her works are found in major Finnish museums such as the Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma and the Amos Anderson Art Museum.
GALERIE FORSBLOM
Lönnrotinkatu 5 / Yrjönkatu 22, 00120 Helsinki
