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METAMORPHOSIS OF THE YEAR, 2024 UNIQUE WOOLLEN RELIEF 63X86.6X1 IN. | 160X220X3 CM.

HAPPINESS ALLOWED, 2012 UNIQUE WOOLLEN RELIEF 67X78.7X1.3 IN. | 170X200X3,5 CM.

HIGH MOUNTAIN DREAM, 2024 PHOTOMONTAGE ON PLEXIGLASS 31.4X47.2X1 IN. | 80X120X2,5 CM. 

Offering a visual response to Lucien Freud's statement: "It is coloration optical journey. As she bridges the gap between
through observation and perception of atmosphere that the figurative and abstract, natural reality and natural illusion, an
artist can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give infinite spectrum of animated perception and interaction result
out," Finnish artist and Professor Riitta Nelimarkka's visceral, in visceral artistic visions which transform into a humerous,
polychromatic photomontage on Plexiglas compositions are visual vortex. Inviting the viewer into her lush, timeless world
in synch with Freud's perception, offering a labyrin of the that is at once familiar and fantastical, a dreamlike utopia
subconscious. Employing the language of painting on Plexiglas permeates Riitta Nelimarkka's oeuvre. Oscillating between
to visualize her alter ego, Elise, and Elise's magical companions, abstraction and representation, she admittedly weaves
Riitta Nelimarkka's whimsical compositions boast a synergy of colors and textures with both allegorical symbols and fantasy
exhilarated emotion and pathos. Fusing the duality of human like figures. Adeptly layering her animated imagery into her
beings with fictional characters, her colorful story telling created visual poems, Ms. Nelimarkka re imagines forms with
paintings intermingle an alchemy of the human spirit with vibrant, dazzling colors whose gestures curve, arch and dive
remarkable figures that revert between imagination and reality. into dream-like depths. While communicating her inner self
Filtered through the artist’s perceptions and emotions, she through her colorific photomontage on plexiglass, Ms. Riitta
explores the intersection of texture and color, resulting in a Nelimarkka's creates powerful, thought-provoking works which
dynamic blend of the actual and the imagined which enchant are inspired by her empathetic reactions to humankind and
the viewer through its striking composition and incredible their relation to circumstances. Excerpt (Chelsea Biennale”)

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