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In Gallery Koppelo in Tampere is a splendid small exhibition: Olli Viiri's (b. 1941) graphics/ digital collages. The artist happened to be present when I visited the exhibition and I heard more precise info about the making of these collages. Viiri has compiled the pictures of his earlier works, on several layers, printed the pictures and there is a a coating of lacquer on top. This kind of digital work must be called handiwork. There is mystic depth in the pictures and some fine details. You can distinguish almost every leaf of a aspen tree. The nature is really near in these pictures. By chance I happened to see in the backroom of gallery Saskia several of Olli Viiri's earlier works. I liked especially his linocut of Pispala - it felt somehow very close. One picture painted on a piece of wood looked almost naivist. Quite a long road from the early works to the ones in this exhibition in Koppelo.
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