8 Sculptures is a series of polystyrene and acrylic works created in 1999. The pieces explore how simple, sharply cut volumes and saturated color interact in space, forming shifting compositions as the viewer moves around them. Each sculpture is both an independent object and part of a larger “constellation” of forms, inviting you to read them as a sequence, a rhythm in three dimensions. The works are in the collection of the Pori Art Museum
Aspi
1999, polystyrene & acrylic, height 220 cm, Pori Art Museum collection
Aspi – Protool
1999, polysyrene & acrylic, height 122 cm, Pori Art Museum collection
STC
1999, polystyrene & acrylic, height 220 cm, Pori Art Museum collection
STC – Aspi
1999, polystyrene & acrylic, height 122 cm, Pori Art Museum collection
Protool
1999, polystyrene & acrylic, height 220 cm, Pori Art Museum collection
Protool – Punatulkku
1999, polystyrene & acrylic, height 122 cm, Pori Art Museum collection
Punatulkku
1999, polysyrene & acrylic, height 220 cm, Pori Art Museum collection
Punatulkku – STC
1999, polystyrene & acrylic, height 122 cm, Pori Art Museum collection
The video clip below was filmed in 1999 at the Helsinki-based Galleria Artina from an exhibition where eight sculptures were first exhibited.
The later paintings in this series ,paintings of sculptures, grow directly out of the sculptural forms. I translated the volumes, edges and junctions of the sculptures into flat color fields, testing how much of the spatial sensation could be retained on a two‑dimensional surface.
These same forms reappeared in a 2002 installation Inside Out, where they were reorganized into a new spatial situation.