PASI TAMMIPaintings 27.9.2008 – 19.10.2008

Untitled, 2008
oil on canvas
250 x 180 cm

My latest works depict people who have lost their everyday ordinariness. Illuminated anatomical structures create palimpsests of time that make visible the skeleton and the all-concealing skin. Longing, fear and hatred give expression to these people lost somewhere in the no-man´s-land between life and death.

The works depicting burning paintings emerge from the desire to know what becomes of art and the artist as the two are eroded by time and oblivion. The unpainted canvas, destroyed by or born of fire is like uncarved marble, containing the possibility of any and all paintings until such a time as the artist commits to just one.

Although my work is observational, I am not interested in re-producing reality as is but rather prefer to draw on my own mental imagery and the visual stimuli that inspire it. The imagination, the subject matter, light and colour are free to roam until they are brought on a collision course towards a point that fascinates me.

Pasi Tammi

 
tammi/2008/ALKAVA-YO-EI-PAATY-AAMUUN-2008

This twilight will have no dawn, 2008
oil on canvas
200 x 170 cm

tammi/2008/BABEL-2007

Babel, 2007
oil on canvas
200 x 170 cm

tammi/2008/JUMALAN-VATSAVAIVAT-2007

God's tummy upset, 2007
oil on canvas
110 x 130 cm

tammi/2008/KATODISADEPAIVANPAISTE-2007

Cathoderaysunshine, 2007
oil on canvas
200 x 170 cm

tammi/2008/KUTEN-MINUT-NAETTE-2006

As you see me, 2008
oil pastel
98 x 68 cm

tammi/2008/KUTEN-MINUT-NAETTE-II-2008

As you see me II, 2008
oil pastel
98 x 65 cm

tammi/2008/METAKROMASIA-I-2006

Metachromasia I, 2006
oil on canvas
60 x 50 cm

tammi/2008/METAKROMASIA-II-2007

Metachromasia II, 2007
oil on canvas
60 x 50 cm

tammi/2008/METAKROMASIA-III-2008

Metachromasia III, 2008
oil on canvas
60 x 50 cm

tammi/2008/METAKROMASIA-IV-2008

Metachromasia IV, 2008
metal pigment and oil on canvas
60 x 50 cm

tammi/2008/METAKROMASIA-V-2008

Metachromasia V, 2008
oil on canvas
60 x 50 cm

tammi/2008/MUINA-MIEHINA-2005

Blending in, 2005
oil pastel
48 x 63 cm

tammi/2008/NIMETON-2005

Untitled, 2005
oil pastel
48 x 63 cm

tammi/2008/NIMETON-2006

Untitled, 2006
oil pastel
63 x 48 cm

tammi/2008/NIMETON-2007

Untitled, 2007
oil on canvas
200 x 170 cm

tammi/2008/NIMETON-2008-200X170CM-

Untitled, 2008
oil on canvas
200 x 170 cm

tammi/2008/NIMETON-2008-200X170CM

Untitled, 2008
oil on canvas
200 x 170 cm

tammi/2008/NIMETON-2008-250X180CM

Untitled, 2008
oil on canvas
250 x 180 cm

tammi/2008/PITKA-AIKA-2007

A long time, 2007
oil on canvas
200 x 170 cm

tammi/2008/USKOA-JOHONKIN----2008

To believe in something Or nothing Or whatever, 2008
oil on canvas
200 x 170 cm

 
 
 
 
 
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