At this year's CHART, Helsinki Contemporary is proud to present a curated booth with works by two Finnish artists, Leena Nio and Aki Turunen.
Both artists are rethinking and reimagining traditions and conventions of painting. Leena Nio’s detailed compositions of clothes and people are at the same realistic but also veer into abstraction, reworking conventions of portraiture and the still life. In his work Aki Turunen, combines subconscious imagery with references to art history. His deep knowledge of the tradition of painting is evident in his use of different techniques, such as tempera painting, and his subject matter that reference both mythology and history.