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Place of Birth: Kuusamo, Northern Finland Regional State Administrative Agency, Finland
About Veikko Törmänen
- Veikko Johannes Törmänen (born 7 June 1945) is a Finnish artist, who paints and makes graphic art.
- His works were displayed for the first time in a solo exhibition in Oulu, Finland, in 1972. Törmänen paints abstract works and makes installations.
- He has collaborated with architects and has made many public works since 1979.
- His works combine various techniques and materials. In the 1970s Törmänen painted gouache and water colour works based on a close study of objects.
- In the end of the 1980s he painted large, structuredcolor fields with events taking place along the sides of the works.
- At this time he also produced collages of various objects and experimented with different materials.
- In the beginning of 1990's he was struck by the shape of dot, stating that at that time he blew up the color fields into the black dots in his works.
- He was fascinated by the fact that dot is the basic element of industrially produced image.
- His show in Oulu Art Museum in 1999 was titled "Contrast". According to art critics Törmänen's art relies on a peculiar diversion of visual sense, dealing with purely aesthetic optical illusion.
- He has been considered a reducer, whose works consist of colour, form and their interplay.
- Törmänen states that his aesthetics is the visual experience they produce and that he doesn't tell stories.
- He says that he has always wanted to embody movement and interaction, a kind of mirroring of different elements with each others. Among his paintings and installations Törmänen has designed unconventional chairs and other objects.
- An example of this work is the interior design of the guest room in the State Provincial Office of Oulu with paintings, fireplace, an iron chair and a glass table.
- He has stated he is not afraid of decoration anymore. Törmänen was born in Kuusamo, but lives and works in Oulu.
- He is married to author Sinikka Laine.
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