{"id":1032,"date":"2025-03-21T11:23:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T09:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turunlinna.fi\/wam2026\/nayttelyt\/anu-tuomi-colour-vibrations\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T11:23:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T09:23:51","slug":"anu-tuomi-colour-vibrations","status":"publish","type":"nayttelyt","link":"https:\/\/turunlinna.fi\/wam2026\/en\/nayttelyt\/anu-tuomi-colour-vibrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Anu Tuomi \u2013 Colour Vibrations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Anu Tuomi\u2019s exhibition Colour Vibrations provides a retrospective overview of the artist\u2019s long career and extensive production. The exhibition showcases Tuomi\u2019s earlier production from her long and colourful career, as well as very recent works.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anu Tuomi, b. 1950, grew up in a working-class home and graduated as an artist in the strongly political era of the 1970s. In the 1970s, Tuomi\u2019s art was stylistically influenced by Social Realism. Tuomi did not portray workers in an idealised manner, but her style was rather realistic and compassionate. Expressive and perceptive portraits took central stage in Tuomi\u2019s early career.\u202f \r\n\r\nDuring the 1980s, Tuomi\u2019s focus shifted towards depicting phenomena in the surrounding nature based on direct observation. Eventually she moved onto depicting the ways in which we experience and see nature, and colours repeated in nature. Since the start of her career, Tuomi has been defined as a colourist. Tuomi\u2019s interest in colour has manifested itself throughout her career as an active research into colour and an inexhaustible source of artistic inspiration.\u202f<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tuomi\u2019s Artistic Development and Influence on Turku\u2019s Art Scene<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the 1990s and 2000s, Tuomi\u2019s art became increasingly abstract, often taking colour perception as a starting point. Tuomi frequently used natural materials in her works and tested the boundaries of painting by breaking the conventional methods and forms of expression. The paintings turned into large installations and works of art climbing along walls or spilling onto floors. In the 2010s, the artist began to increasingly use textiles, rug wefts and yarns alongside acrylic painting. A number of Tuomi&#8217;s abstract works ended up being highly self-biographical through her use of recycled textiles that had once belonged to her family.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to her long career as an artist, Tuomi has worked as a teacher at the Turku School of Fine Arts and later as Principal Teacher of Visual Arts at the Arts Academy of Turku University of Applied Sciences. She has also been very active in the art scene of Turku as an influencer and member of ARTE Association. She was also involved in establishing ARTE Association\u2019s Joe\u2019s and Titanik galleries.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exhibition was curated by Maria Huokkola<strong>, <\/strong>Exhibitions Curator\u202fat Museum Centre of Turku.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Photo: Ville M\u00e4kil\u00e4, Museum Centre of Turku.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anu Tuomi\u2019s exhibition Colour Vibrations provides a retrospective overview of the artist\u2019s long career and extensive production. The exhibition showcases Tuomi\u2019s earlier production from her long and colourful career, as well as very recent works. 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