Kirsimaria Elisabet Törönen : Modelling poses 2016-2020

Keywords: Kirsimaria E. Törönen, taidehistorian uudelleentulkinta, Modelling poses sarja

Modelling poses
In her series Modelling Poses, Kirsimaria E. Törönen creates interpretations of human figures from fine art. She borrows and moulds, draws lines and luxuriates with form. The figures, borrowed from significant artworks from art history, are not replicated. Törönen renders them freely. The outline wanders and cleverly illustrates the figures,in an easily recognisable, but still fresh and different way.

Cut from steel or MDF-board, the figures retain an airy and light feeling. The works settle into a space, slightly off the wall, as if they were part of the building’s architecture. The customary rectangular shape of a canvas is unambiguous. The artworks, cut to form, feel like an integral
part of the space - created and owned by it.

In the Modelling Poses series, Törönen also considers gender in the context of fine art. Through her interpretation, the shivering nude female model is given a voice, the object becomes the subject and the form is no longer forced to fit into a mould. Male figures are also depicted, some of which have wound up nude like their contemporary female counterparts.
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Botticelli's iconic Venus and Egon Schiele’s touching self-portraits can through Törönen’s work be reimagined. This is how strong line based, but simplified interpretations are.

Veikko Halmetoja
curator, art critic

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