Artist’s Statement

Art exhibition THE CONTEMPORARY
1-29.2024 Mai-Art Gallery

I am visual artist Anne Puronmaa (born 1968). I live and work in Lappeenranta. I paint oil and tempera paintings, I also make graphics. I only paint people. When I paint the human body, I can best deal with emotions and the interaction between people. In my paintings, people are both subject and object. The starting point for my paintings is photographs. I photograph people in the positions I want, and then I make sketches. The painting process progresses through them onto the canvas.

In the works of the exhibition, I deal with multi-generational brokenness in individuals and families, which I interpret through the means of painting. In the paintings, I deal with the basic elements of humanity, such as the longing for acceptance and love, the human desire to seek the connection and closeness of another. There is a lot of loneliness in broken families. The interaction is broken. I have depicted this experience of lovelessness in my works through loneliness and rejection.
Contemporaries are representatives of each generation. A person can look back in his life, remember and study history, as if there was no time.
The paintings are oil and tempera paintings.