VILLE LAAKSONEN CONSTRUCT / ABSTRACT
Selected works from the exhibitions FAITH / HOPE / LOVE (2009 - 2011)
THEY LAUGH AT MY SEARCH FOR HOLY, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 273 X 208, 2010
ALWAYS WITH YOU, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 218 X 188, 2010
POWER OF LOVE OVER LOVE FOR POWER, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 375 X 280, 2010
GOD IS MY WITHNESS, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 238 X 188, 2010
DANCE (THE LIGHT), Oil and acrylic on canvas, 230 X 180, 2010
ANGST: Oil and acrylic on canvas, 270 X 200 X 120, 2010 Ville Laaksonen: Holy Doom @ GALLERY MAARET FINNBERG, Turku
WRECK, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 128 X 150, 2010
CALL OF THE ANCIENT, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 178 X 230, 2010
WHEN HELL COMES, HEAVEN IS READY, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 208 X 220, 2010
LIFE ABOVE, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 178 X 230, 2010
TO BE EXPECTED, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 128 X 150, 2010
IDEAL: Oil and acrylic on canvas, 200 X 90 X 90, 2010 Ville Laaksonen: Faith @ GALLERY SASKIA, Tampere
FATHER, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 200 X 200, 2010
BE MY SHELTER, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150 X 150, 2010
JAPANESE WHISPERS, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150 X 150, 2010
ASGÅRD, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 280 X 230, 2010
THE OPEN, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150 X 150, 2010
CHERRIES, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150 X 150, 2010
DIASPORA, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 210 X 200, 2009
FAITH Oil and acrylic on canvas, 600 (min) X 280 X 140, 2010 Ville Laaksonen: Faith @ GALLERY SASKIA, Tampere
FOLLOW, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 120, 2010
GETSEMANE, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 185 X 153, 2010
SPACE WITHIN DEAR, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150 X 190, 2011
PROMETHEUS, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 200, 2010
PAST THE MYTH, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 185 X 153, 2010
CATHERINE WHEEL, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 210 X 280, 2010
TORSO, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 220 X 140 X 120, 2010 Ville Laaksonen: Faith @ GALLERY SASKIA, Tampere
HER EYES, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 128 X 150, 2010
KNOWLEDGE (OF POWER), Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150 X 210, 2010
THE OTHER WAY, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 220 X 208, 2010
NUTCRACKER, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 155 X 220, 2010
WAY WE THINK OF RELIGION, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 115 X 160, 2010
ANGST: Oil and acrylic on canvas, 270 X 200 X 120, 2010 Ville Laaksonen: Hope @ GALLERY PORIGINAL, Pori
ALLEGORY OF ALLEGORY, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 220, 2009
IN THESE HANDS (PIETÁ), Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150 X 150, 2010
BABTISM, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 220, 2009
BEFORE, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150 X 150, 2009
MIRACLE, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 220, 2009
Catherine Wheel / Do you like Chopin? Ville Laaksonen: Love @ GALLERY Maaret Finnberg, Turku
THE GOLDEN TEMPLE (MISHIMA), Oil and acrylic on canvas, 222 X 160, 2010
DO YOU LIKE CHOPIN?, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 230 X 270, 2010
LOVE YOU LIKE CRAZY, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 220 X 160, 2010
REPETITION (OF KUPTA AND KIERKEGAARD), Oil and acrylic on canvas, 280 X 220, 2010
KINKOKUJI, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150 X 120, 2010
Power of Love Over Love for Powere Ville Laaksonen: Love @ GALLERY Maaret Finnberg, Turku
OBLIVION, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 114, 2010
ALWAYS WITH YOU, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 130 X 113, 2010
(ALLEGORY OF) HOPE, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 450 X 280, 2009
IN MY HANDS, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 100 X 94, 2010
APPEARS TO, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150 X 100, 2010
Exhibition view (They Laugh at My Search for Holy Ville Laaksonen: Love @ GALLERY Maaret Finnberg, Turku
APRÉS TOI, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 155 X 222, 2010
TO FACE (THE FACE), Oil and acrylic on canvas, 88 X 85, 2010
ODE TO STUCKISM (THERE IS NO ROOM FOR ALL IN THIS BOAT), Oil and acrylic on canvas, 222 X 155, 2010
THOUSAND LAKES IN DARK, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 120 X 114, 2010
TO VANISH, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150 X 230, 2009
VILLE LAA IMPRESS /
Selected works
AKSONEN / EXPRESS
s 2006 - 2009
WAIT, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 200 X 200, 2009
PHARAOH, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 150, 2009
LEGEND, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 230 X 160, 2008
ICON, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 210 X 160, 2007
HARBOUR, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 160, 2009
TALE , Oil and acrylic on canvas, 300 X 170, 2009
The past, the present and future are all here. They cannot be discussed by other means but taking a stand here and now and making a monument for this experience. Representing the eternal in Search of beauty lives through out all times. Experience of the unconscious is not measurable by time.
MOTHER, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 210 X 180, 2009
HONEST BIRD, Oil and acryl-
DISHONEST BIRDS, Oil and acryl-
SIREN, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 180 X 160, 2008
PASSION I, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 220 X 160, 2007
PASSION II, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 220 X 160, 2007
NOSTALGHY, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 300 X 160, 2008
Expression is a gesture of hand, knowing the emotion which this gesture represents. Therefore expressionism is a series of secret handshakes. Impression is the way eye sees world in a certain kind of glow. Sophrosyne is to balance between extremes, internal and external stimulants.
SPHINX, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 230 X 160, 2008
BOWL, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 60 X 50, 2008
SHELTER, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 60 X 50, 2008
TEMPO, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 300 X 160, 2008
HOWL , Oil and acrylic on canvas, 220 X 180, 2008
DRINK, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 60 X 50, 2008
MOVE, Oil and acrylic on canvas,, 60 X 50, 2008
PEGASUS, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 220 X 160, 2008
Beauty can always be challenged by those who cannot reach to it. Painting express ideas in painterly ways unknown to knowing. Opening eyes to see is to open mind to what it feels like in the mind. True beauty lies skin deep, inside the painting, staring back at those ready to put themselves to face it.
TABOO, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 220 X 150, 2008
WING, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 180 X 160, 2009
WISE, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 120, 2006
FOOL, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 120, 2006
Hysteria, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 120, 2007
Totem, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 120, 2008
“Art for art� leads to question about the meaning of art. I prefer thinking painting is created as a matter of blind faith. Hope follows one who lets it and angst troubles ones who seek it. Believing is seeing with eyes closed where nature of existence can be found in the truth of experiencing.
(Picture) This is not Amerikkka, 800 X 400, 2007 Patarei, Tallinn, Estonia
Modus, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 210 X 160, 2008
Antigone, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 150, 2008
CHANGES, Oil and Acrylic on board, 4 x 100 x 50, 2006
Freedom, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 160, 2009
ICARUS, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 200 X 150, 2008
Abstract is a point, where there is nothing to change. Pure idea in its ultimate form. Reality is to show what one thinks is forming idea truthfully, describing the essence of it from all considerable sides at the same time. Abstract realism stands as a smiling sphinx waiting to be understood.
Pope, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 200 X 200, 2009
TEMPLE, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 160, 2009
HALO, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150 X 130, 2008
DAMOCLES, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 160, 2008
PYRAMID, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 200 X 200, 2009
Stories are told to children until they refuse to meet them. Reality is easy to accept as truth for the growing mind. In the end we hope stories have truth in them and fail to understand reality as only one of these stories, one we try to share, despite all have their own story. This is a question of Faith.
To Henna, Donna Mamma And Pappa ... Love is Never Out of Fashion
IMPRESS / EXPRESS
+358-50-3537071 / ville.Laaksonen@gmail.com Made in Finland 2006-2009. Photos: Henna Aho & Ville Laaksonen.