Ville Laaksonen

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VILLE LAAKSONENCONSTRUCT / ABSTRACT

Selected works from the exhibitionsFAITH / HOPE / LOVE (2009 - 2011)

THEY LAUGH AT MY SEARCH FOR HOLY, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 273 X 208, 2010

ALWAYS WITH YOU, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 218 X 188, 2010

POWER OF LOVE OVER LOVE FOR POWER, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 375 X 280, 2010

GOD IS MY WITHNESS, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 238 X 188, 2010

DANCE (THE LIGHT), Oil and acrylic on canvas, 230 X 180, 2010

ANGST: Oil and acrylic on canvas, 270 X 200 X 120, 2010

Ville Laaksonen: Holy Doom @ GALLERY MAARET FINNBERG, Turku

WRECK, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 128 X 150, 2010

CALL OF THE ANCIENT, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 178 X 230, 2010

WHEN HELL COMES, HEAVEN IS READY, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 208 X 220, 2010

LIFE ABOVE, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 178 X 230, 2010

TO BE EXPECTED, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 128 X 150, 2010

IDEAL: Oil and acrylic on canvas, 200 X 90 X 90, 2010

Ville Laaksonen: Faith @ GALLERY SASKIA, Tampere

FATHER, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 200 X 200, 2010

BE MY SHELTER, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150 X 150, 2010

JAPANESE WHISPERS, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150 X 150, 2010

ASGÅRD, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 280 X 230, 2010

THE OPEN, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150 X 150, 2010

CHERRIES, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150 X 150, 2010

DIASPORA, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 210 X 200, 2009

FAITH Oil and acrylic on canvas, 600 (min) X 280 X 140, 2010


FOLLOW, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 120, 2010

GETSEMANE, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 185 X 153, 2010

SPACE WITHIN DEAR, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150 X 190, 2011

PROMETHEUS, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 200, 2010

PAST THE MYTH, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 185 X 153, 2010

CATHERINE WHEEL, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 210 X 280, 2010

TORSO, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 220 X 140 X 120, 2010


HER EYES, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 128 X 150, 2010

KNOWLEDGE (OF POWER), Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150 X 210, 2010

THE OTHER WAY, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 220 X 208, 2010

NUTCRACKER, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 155 X 220, 2010

WAY WE THINK OF RELIGION, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 115 X 160, 2010

ANGST: Oil and acrylic on canvas, 270 X 200 X 120, 2010

Ville Laaksonen: Hope @ GALLERY PORIGINAL, Pori

ALLEGORY OF ALLEGORY, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 220, 2009

IN THESE HANDS (PIETÁ), Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150 X 150, 2010

BABTISM, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 220, 2009

BEFORE, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150 X 150, 2009

MIRACLE, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 220, 2009

Catherine Wheel / Do you like Chopin?

Ville Laaksonen: Love @ GALLERY Maaret Finnberg, Turku

THE GOLDEN TEMPLE (MISHIMA), Oil and acrylic on canvas, 222 X 160, 2010

DO YOU LIKE CHOPIN?, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 230 X 270, 2010

LOVE YOU LIKE CRAZY, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 220 X 160, 2010

REPETITION (OF KUPTA AND KIERKEGAARD), Oil and acrylic on canvas, 280 X 220, 2010

KINKOKUJI, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150 X 120, 2010

Power of Love Over Love for Powere


OBLIVION, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 114, 2010

ALWAYS WITH YOU, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 130 X 113, 2010

(ALLEGORY OF) HOPE, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 450 X 280, 2009

IN MY HANDS, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 100 X 94, 2010

APPEARS TO, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150 X 100, 2010

Exhibition view (They Laugh at My Search for Holy


APRÉS TOI, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 155 X 222, 2010

TO FACE (THE FACE), Oil and acrylic on canvas, 88 X 85, 2010

ODE TO STUCKISM (THERE IS NO ROOM FOR ALL IN THIS BOAT), Oil and acrylic on canvas, 222 X 155, 2010

THOUSAND LAKES IN DARK, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 120 X 114, 2010

TO VANISH, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150 X 230, 2009

VILLE LAAKSONENIMPRESS / EXPRESS

Selected works 2006 - 2009

WAIT, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 200 X 200, 2009

PHARAOH, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 150, 2009

LEGEND, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 230 X 160, 2008

ICON, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 210 X 160, 2007

HARBOUR, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 160, 2009

TALE , Oil and acrylic on canvas, 300 X 170, 2009

The past, the present and future are all here. They cannot be discussed by other means but taking a stand here and now

and making a monument for this experience.

Representing the eternal in Search of beauty lives through out all times. Experience of

the unconscious is not measurable by time.

MOTHER, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 210 X 180, 2009

HONEST BIRD, Oil and acryl-

DISHONEST BIRDS, Oil and acryl-

SIREN, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 180 X 160, 2008

PASSION I, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 220 X 160, 2007

PASSION II, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 220 X 160, 2007

NOSTALGHY, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 300 X 160, 2008

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Expression is a gesture of hand, knowing the emotion

which this gesture represents. Therefore expressionism is a series of secret handshakes. Impression is the way eye

sees world in a certain kind of glow. Sophrosyne is to

balance between extremes, internal and external

stimulants.

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SPHINX, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 230 X 160, 2008

BOWL, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 60 X 50, 2008

SHELTER, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 60 X 50, 2008

TEMPO, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 300 X 160, 2008

HOWL , Oil and acrylic on canvas, 220 X 180, 2008

DRINK, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 60 X 50, 2008

MOVE, Oil and acrylic on canvas,, 60 X 50, 2008

PEGASUS, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 220 X 160, 2008

Beauty can always be challenged by those who

cannot reach to it. Painting express ideas in painterly

ways unknown to knowing. Opening eyes to see is to open mind to what it

feels like in the mind. True beauty lies skin deep,

inside the painting, staring back at those ready to put

themselves to face it.

TABOO, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 220 X 150, 2008

WING, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 180 X 160, 2009

WISE, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 120, 2006

FOOL, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 120, 2006

Hysteria, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 120, 2007

Totem, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 120, 2008

“Art for art” leads to question about the

meaning of art. I prefer thinking painting is created as a matter of blind faith. Hope follows one who lets it and angst troubles ones who seek it. Believing is seeing with eyes closed

where nature of existence can be found in the truth

of experiencing.

(Picture)This is not Amerikkka, 800 X 400, 2007

Patarei, Tallinn, Estonia

Modus, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 210 X 160, 2008

Antigone, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 150, 2008

CHANGES, Oil and Acrylic on board, 4 x 100 x 50, 2006

Freedom, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 160, 2009

ICARUS, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 200 X 150, 2008

Abstract is a point, where there is nothing to change.

Pure idea in its ultimate form. Reality is to show

what one thinks is forming idea truthfully, describing

the essence of it from all considerable sides at the same time. Abstract

realism stands as a smiling sphinx waiting to be

understood.

Pope, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 200 X 200, 2009

TEMPLE, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 160, 2009

HALO, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150 X 130, 2008

DAMOCLES, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 X 160, 2008

PYRAMID, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 200 X 200, 2009

Stories are told to children until they refuse to meet them. Reality is easy to accept as truth for the

growing mind. In the end we hope stories have

truth in them and fail to understand reality as only one of these stories, one

we try to share, despite all have their own story. This

is a question of Faith.

To Henna,Donna

Mamma AndPappa

...

Love isNeverOut ofFashion

IMPRESS / EXPRESS+358-50-3537071 / [email protected]

Made in Finland 2006-2009. Photos: Henna Aho & Ville Laaksonen.

Ville Laaksonen

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