Håkan Karvonen
In my artistic practice, I work with figurative painting that explores the legacy of modernism, focusing on aspects such as perspective, illusion, symbolism, space, and abstraction. I choose a concept rooted in one of these aspects and begin with image research. The motifs are selected based on the concept but are ultimately cropped to contribute to a visual experience for the viewer, using painting as a visual portal between the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional worlds.
The installation of the paintings is carried out in dialogue with the architectural qualities of the space to connect the dimensions, thus opening a channel between the painted world and the viewer's. To gently guide the viewer into a frictionless oscillation between dimensions, I work serially and use a consistent color palette as a foundation. This helps maintain the illusion of the painted world as an autonomous place.