artist
Arto Korhonen
- Finland, 1963
With the transparency and seductive power of watercolour, Arto Korhonen (1963–2023) depicted society and people in the present. Communicating identity with style and clothing is becoming increasingly important to more and more people. With an imagery that plays with photo-realism, Korhonen often sneaked in a challenge to society’s norm system. He came from Helsinki and was educated at the art schools in Liminka and Lahtis. Based on his interest in watercolour technology, he experimented with the works’ presentation and basic material and painted pictures with clay, petals and urine. In the work Meeting Point, he lets sixty photographed watercolours be projected against a spinning disco ball with round mirrors. The feeling of the nightlife’s seductive play at a glance is obscured by a worrying uncertainty about which room we are in. Am I the one who is seeing or is it me being seen?
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