
Markku Keränen
neljästä viiteen, 2019
Tempera on canvas
85 x 55 cm / 33.4 x 21.6 inches
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Markku Keränen
neljästä viiteen / from four to five, 2019
Tempera on canvas
85 x 55 cm / 33.4 x 21.6 inches
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Markku Keränen
neljästä viiteen / from four to five, 2019
Tempera on canvas
85 x 55 cm / 33.4 x 21.6 inches
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Markku Keränen
Yet Untiled, 2019
Tempera on canvas
85 x 55 cm / 33.4 x 21.6 inches
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Markku Keränen
Kesäkerroin / Summer Bonus, 2017
Tempera
120 x 240 cm / 47.24 x 94.49 inches
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Markku Keränen
neljästä viiteen/ from four to five, 2018
Tempera on canvas
110 x 290 cm / 43.31 x 114.17 inches
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Markku Keränen
neljästä viiteen / from four to five, 2019
Tempera on canvas
85 x 55 cm / 33.46 x 21.65 inches
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Markku Keränen
neljästä viiteen / from four to five, 2019
Tempera on canvas
85 x 55 cm / 33.46 x 21.65 inches
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Markku Keränen exhibition 2019
Portrait of Markku Keränen.
Born in Salla, Lapland, Finland 1945 | Lives and works in Espoo.
Markku Keränen’s paintings celebrate color and playful treatment of form. His compositions bring abstract forms to life, creating a vivid illusion of movement on the canvas. The motion pulsates rhythmically and perpetually, both across the canvas and depth-wise. The movement never seems to stop, rippling from ball to ball, each one endowed with a distinctive character. Balls of different sizes and shades appear to inhabit a world of their own, creating optical illusions, dynamic contrasts, and an endless array of detailed variations. Keränen’s works are imbued with a sense of all-enfolding infinity. The synergy between form and composition electrifies his work with immense energy and dynamism.
Markku Keränen graduated from Helsinki’s University of Art and Design, later holding a teaching post. He has exhibited his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Finland and abroad at venues including Kunsthalle Helsinki, the Rovaniemi Art Museum and in Prague, and Most in the Czech Republic. His work is found in many prestigious collections such as the Amos Anderson Art Museum, the Sara Hildén Art Museum, the Espoo Museum of Modern Art EMMA, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma.