Tuukka Tammisaari: Things in the wind

Tuukka Tammisaari’s highly recognizable signature style radiates a sincere joy that stems from the pure freedom of creativity and his intuitive approach to painting. Every inch of the canvas exudes his powerful candor of expression, penetrating all the way to the viewer’s subconscious.

Tammisaari’s oil paintings present a multi-layered world that is simultaneously anchored  in the context of both art history and contemporary art. His visual vocabulary is rich in expressive devices familiar from neo-expressionism and minimalism, as well as dialogues between abstraction and representation.

Tammisaari describes his paintings as inventories of myriad ideas, events, stories and emotions. The imaginative medley of elements that unfold across his canvases bears witness to his tremendous expressive intensity. His art has a multi-layered anatomy crowned by the artist’s distinctive palette of inflected earthy hues. His compositions are surprising in their orderly anarchy, the compositional principle often being based precisely on its non-linearity and lack of logic.

Tuukka Tammisaari (b. 1984) studied painting at Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts and the Lahti Institute of Design and Fine Arts. He has held solo exhibitions in Finland, Denmark, Belgium and the USA. Hi work is found in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, the Nelimarkka Museum, Uppsala County, and Leiden Medical University in the Netherlands, as well as in private collections in Finland, Denmark, the United States, the Netherlands, Belgium and Sweden. The artist lives and works in Helsinki.