"Core" — 43 paintings made for the Nordic Arts Centre exhibition in 1992

Oil on wood panel, 65 x 46 cm, 1990-1992. 35 paintings like this one were made for the planned exhibition at Krista Mikkola's Gallery in Helsinki 1991. When this project was cancelled, the ideas behind it were developed into what became the Nordic Arts Centre exhibition in 1992. For this installation 7 more paintings were made (the exakt number of paintings were determined through the use of a specially made computer program, working with random numbers). The paintings were made through hand-painting (with the help of a slide projector) the dot-patterns of a color separated portrait photograph. Instead of the traditional offset printing colors (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) different transparent grays were used, to give each painting it's unique character - together with the unintentional variations or mistakes which were unavoidable because of the chosen process. Installation view in Finland. Installation view in Iceland.

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