ANSSI TÖRRÖNENTwo in one 4.1.2025 – 26.1.2025

My latest paintings are based on small drawings I have made in between everyday chores. My paintings have line-like elements, from freehand curves to almost constructive horizontal and vertical lines that cut and outline views of bodily shapes of nature.

I find it interesting when a painting opens up in different directions so that something in it can be this way or that without forming a clear-cut image of anything.

In addition to abstract painting, my long-term interests have included the use of perspectives in Baroque and Renaissance art. What especially inspires me in paintings from those eras is their sculptural floating forms, which are drawn out by a light that glows in a spiritual manner.

I see painting as a process in which memories and images form a fabric that captures things seen in art and life.

Anssi Törrönen

Visual artist Anssi Törrönen (b. 1970) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki in 1997 and before that from the Free Art School in 1992. Törrönen’s path has taken him from paintings bordering between abstract and representational to realistic and back to abstract expression. As Törrönen puts it, his paintings from the past decade could be described as organic abstractions. Törrönen has held solo exhibitions regularly since graduation, and his works are part of several public collections in Finland, such as those of the Helsinki Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma and the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation. Törrönen was awarded the William Thuring Prize in 2009 and the Ducat Prize in 1994, both presented by the Finnish Art Society.