Jaakko Rönkkö
Basic information
b. 1947, Vieremä
Visual Artist
Residence: Helsinki
Contact information
Phone number: 050 370 90 26
Email: jaakronk@hotmail.com
Artist’s Statement
The origins of my art lie in the childhood nature - experience in the countryside of the Finnish North Savo region countryside in the early 50's.
My art is based on drawing. In my works on paper I survey line and color. Themes come from the unconscious though the visuality of my works is close to the processes of nature.
Though my experience is subjective I am conscious of the drama between nature and man.
My pictures are landscapes if we accept that cosmic eruptions, chemistry of a human body and lilies in my flower bed belong to the same nature.
I love to make wall-drawings directly onto the wall at the place of exhibition as I think this action as creating of a new universe.
My wall-pieces are usually accompanied by smaller drawings and gouaches that appear as a micro-cosmos of the large work.
My practice of color comes of two sources: firstly of looking at the varying of form and color in nature and secondly from writings of wise men like Goethe, Albers and Itten. When my own imagination is not enough I turn to these two precious sources.
My art is based on drawing. In my works on paper I survey line and color. Themes come from the unconscious though the visuality of my works is close to the processes of nature.
Though my experience is subjective I am conscious of the drama between nature and man.
My pictures are landscapes if we accept that cosmic eruptions, chemistry of a human body and lilies in my flower bed belong to the same nature.
I love to make wall-drawings directly onto the wall at the place of exhibition as I think this action as creating of a new universe.
My wall-pieces are usually accompanied by smaller drawings and gouaches that appear as a micro-cosmos of the large work.
My practice of color comes of two sources: firstly of looking at the varying of form and color in nature and secondly from writings of wise men like Goethe, Albers and Itten. When my own imagination is not enough I turn to these two precious sources.
Current information
My recent works are exhibited in art center Järvilinna, Laukaa till 5.9.2021. Title of the show is Thoughts on art. Twelve contemporary Finnish artists participate.My miniretrospective show will take place in Fönari-gallery in artist-house Ars Longa (Kalasatama, Helsinki). Exhibition starts the 1th of September and lasts till the end of month. Works will be changed every week. The earliest from the beginning of 2000th, the latest from recent years. Beside, there will be a creation of a wall-piece in the entrance-hall of the building in the course of exhibition.
In 2022, October there will be my private exhibition in A2-gallery in Helsinki. Tatu Rönkkö, sound- artist, will exhibit his works at the studio of the gallery.
The exhibition at A2-gallery consists of works titled Trees and grass. It varies natural themes in form and colour. The show includes ca. 60 oeuvres; this means that there are series under different themes.
In the studio of the gallery Tatu Rönkkö shows his intime drawings.
This exhibition closes the 25th of September.