Jussi Goman
Desire Paths
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Jussi Goman's new paintings feature colour-drenched layers of paint that carve out unruly paths upon an orderly configuration of grids and lines. The resultant pattern is reminiscent of doodles in a graph notebook, a jigsaw puzzle, a Snake video game, or the Minotaur's labyrinth, invoking spontaneous shortcuts, dead ends, and myriad narratives.
Jussi Goman's new paintings feature colour-drenched layers of paint that carve out unruly paths upon an orderly configuration of grids and lines. The resultant pattern is reminiscent of doodles in a graph notebook, a jigsaw puzzle, a Snake video game, or the Minotaur's labyrinth, invoking spontaneous shortcuts, dead ends, and myriad narratives.
"His new paintings combine dazzling, luminous hues with pastel blues and lavenders, with added accents of muted orange and red."
A shortcut, whether taken by a human or animal, is typically an unplanned path that represents the shortest or most convenient route between an origin and destination. There is a more poetic English term for a shortcut 'desire path', which perfectly captures the way shortcuts are born the best and most enduring paths are born out of desire, not by force.
'Desire Path' is Jussi Goman's first solo exhibition at Helsinki Contemporary. He has previously appeared at Helsinki Contemporary together with Santeri Lehto and Anton Alvarez in the group exhibition 'Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat'.
Thank you to Kone Foundation for supporting the artist's work.
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