Johanna Karvonen

Johanna Karvonen is a Finnish contemporary artist living in Italy. Her artistic research refers to both figurative and abstract imagery, investigating introspection through varied expressiveness. On the occasion of the "EMERGING" exhibition, the artist presents three works ("Morire un po'", "Speranza", "Tempesta"), each of them realised with different styles and techniques. In the work " Tempesta" we notice a strong influence from the Romanticism of the late 18th and early 19th century, where nature becomes a supreme force, which incites both horror and wonder, and the concept of the sublime takes shape before our eyes, in a charged and dense thunderstorm that advances obscuring the sky. "Speranza", on the other hand, encapsulates, in an abstract language close to the spiritual quest of Color Field, what the artist considers life to be, an often obscure and intricate path, where the inevitability of pain conceals the beauty of a golden line, of a luminous trace that always accompanies our journey. "'Morire un po'" is instead an example of the portraiture style adopted by the artist, where the dynamism of the brushstrokes almost completely absorbs the subject, annihilating it, and leading the observer into a distant universe, where matter dissolves. Johanna Karvonen manipulates colour and our own emotions through the multifaceted play of the senses and the intermediation of visual perception to reach the intimacy of each of us. In front of her oil on canvas paintings, our observation widens to silence, leaving the soul to lose itself in the senses, which reveal the artist's supreme intimacy and her mastery of the canvas.

Art Curator Francesca Brunello