JUHANI TARNA

PRESS RELEASE

Someone reproduces a picture of a building into a painting. It is a reality and a purpose for him. However, art in most cases is the part of that painting where the reproduction has been transgressed in one way or another.

My reality and purpose is the human mind, I try to influence it. I go about my work from abstraction to nature and not from nature to abstraction. This helps to go beyond the stylization stage. Humans have the ability to think abstractly. It is an obligation towards the rest of nature. Art for me is ultimately a soul process, not a “mechanical” one. Man locates and sees things in a certain way. There are certain constants of perception. I strive for a soulful choice and impact in the use of these constants.

In the summer of 1971, I observed relationships in nature and once again measured the sizes and partitions of the basic surface of a painting. From this, a kind of conceptual framework began to emerge, which can be called a ‘field’. It contained elements of the environment, images, perceived and measured relationships, without any accentuation. With the idea of the field came another concept, ‘visual space’, which in a way is the background to the field, and against which the book ‘Vision from Space to Images’ was born. Here is an extract from the book: ‘There are differences between the perceived world and the measured world, but the purpose of perception is to find the relationships between these worlds in art this means the great purpose of finding the right psychological true form in the midst of everything’.

Juhani Tarna

Translated with DeepL