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HELKA IMMONEN - FI
Born 1954 in Helsinki, Finland
Lives and works in Espoo, Finland
Studies in The Free Art School of Helsinki and The Art
Studio of The University of Helsinki, BA in Art history.
Several solo exhibitions in Finland and numerous group
exhibitions in galleries and art museums in Finland and
abroad.
Member of Finnish Painters´ Union and Espoo Visual
Artists.
My paintings develop slowly by chance and intuition, by
adding several thin layers of oil color one upon the other.
In my works inner feelings and emotions are related to
physical events or objects – changes of the weather, the
times of the day or visual elements and forms seen in
architecture and in the nature.
Helka Immonen
FACTORY-ART gallery
May Be ( )Evolution pag. 39
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The most prominent, often almost imperceptible tension
of Helka Immonen´s paintings seems to develop when
the artist, - while sketching a painting - instead of
attaching to either abstract or fi gurative form, refrains
from making a statement and proceeds in silence to ask
the painting´s own, innermost mind.
This subtle openness brings about to the paintings an
all but tangible feeling of boundaries – from abstract
to fi gurative – from inside to outside – from closed to
open spaces. These contrasts create an impression of
a line drawn in the sand in the ambient space of the
paintings. It may happen that a door is opening where
there was only color or a surface permeating light – at
the last minute and so abruptly that not even a shadow
will arise. Imperceptibly a time dimension has emerged
in the painting - a perspective that reveals a sight to its
possibly prolonged morphogenesis in the mind of the
artist.
Or the process is reverse: some element from the
beginning of the painting process ´evaporates´ and
becomes almost weightless with the passing of time.
The outcome still shares some of the traits of the initial
phase: it is slow yet not lagging – aerial yet deep in its
translucency.
It is perhaps fi tting to describe the spatial states thus
generated as ´innate´ and lacking all externality and
artifi ciality.
Liisa Immonen
Factory-Art Ltd - 207 Regent Street - LONDON W1B 4ND
Factory-Art Gallery - Mommsenstraße, 27 - 10629 BERLIN
207 Regent Street - LONDON - W1B 4ND - 0044.(0)20.33188717 - 2012project@factory-art.com
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HELKA IMMONEN - FI
Title: Refl ections, 2007
abstract painting
technique: oil on canvas
size: 65x65 cm
FACTORY-ART gallery
May Be ( )Evolution pag. 40
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Factory-Art Ltd - 207 Regent Street - LONDON W1B 4ND
Factory-Art Gallery - Mommsenstraße, 27 - 10629 BERLIN
207 Regent Street - LONDON - W1B 4ND - 0044.(0)20.33188717 - 2012project@factory-art.com
Mommsenstraße, 27 - 10629 BERLIN - 0049(0)30.31809794 - info@factory-art.com

HELKA IMMONEN - FI
Title: Oasis, 2010
abstract painting
technique: oil on canvas
size: 61x65 cm
FACTORY-ART gallery
May Be ( )Evolution pag. 41
R
Factory-Art Ltd - 207 Regent Street - LONDON W1B 4ND
Factory-Art Gallery - Mommsenstraße, 27 - 10629 BERLIN
207 Regent Street - LONDON - W1B 4ND - 0044.(0)20.33188717 - 2012project@factory-art.com
Mommsenstraße, 27 - 10629 BERLIN - 0049(0)30.31809794 - info@factory-art.com