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Jenni Rope - Artists - galerieforsblom.com

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Born in Lahti, Finland 1977 | Lives and works in Helsinki

 

Jenni Rope is a versatile artist who also works as a print designer and creator of art books and public artworks. Originally trained as a graphic designer, Rope has designed prints for clients, including Marimekko. She is the founder of flipbook publisher Napa Books, and she has created visuals for art and picture books for WSOY, Etana Editions, and Rooftop Press. Her public artworks are at the Helsinki University Library (Kaisa House) and the Kalasatama Health and Wellbeing Center in Helsinki. She is the 2016 Finnish Art Society’s William Thuring Prize winner.

 

Rope’s organic forms evoke impressions of human life, plants, and natural phenomena, sometimes combined with human-made structures. Rope is intrigued by synesthetic fusions of images, sounds, and words. She sees movements of wind and water captured in her brushwork and imagines whispering, rustling, and rumbling sounds flowing from the canvas. Movement is also a key element in her mobiles, which sway gently in a meditative rhythm. In their emphatic spatiality, these floating, spinning creations are the perfect companions to Rope’s paintings. They are like three-dimensional, ever-fluctuating paintings that can be viewed from 360°.

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