
Reima Nevalainen
Drought, 2021
Acrylics, collage, sand and pastel on canvas
50 x 50 cm / 20 x 20 in
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Reima Nevalainen
Bed of Reeds, 2021
Acrylics, collage, sand and pastel on canvas
200 x 165 cm / 79 x 65 in
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Reima Nevalainen
Uncertain Senses, 2020
Acrylics, collage, pastel and sand on canvas
200 x 330 cm / 78.74 x 129.92 inches
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Reima Nevalainen
Furniture, 2019
acrylics, collage, pastel and sand on canvas
65 x 54 cm / 25.59 x 21.26 inches
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Reima Nevalainen
Frame I, 2019
acrylics, collage, marker and sand on MDF
31.50 x 24 cm / 12.40 x 9.45 inches
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Reima Nevalainen
Resonant, 2019
acrylics, collage, pastel and sand on canvas
200 x 165 cm / 78.74 x 64.96 inches
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Reima Nevalainen
Birds Thrown Into the Air, 2019
Acrylics, collage, sand and pastel on canvas
165 x 200 cm / 64.96 x 78.74 inches
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Reima Nevalainen
Tongue, 2018
Acrylics, collage, charcoal and color pencil on canvas
100 x 90 cm / 39.37 x 35.43 inches
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Reima Nevalainen
Living off the Land, 2017
Acrylic, collage, sand, and pastel pen on canvas
200 x 330 cm / 78.74 x 129.92 inches
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Reima Nevalainen
Consume us, 2015
Acrylics and collage on canvas
130 x 114 cm / 51.2 x 44.9 inches
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Reima Nevalainen
Unzip, 2015
Acrylics, collage and sand on canvas
100 x 84 cm / 39.4 x 33.1 inches
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Reima Nevalainen
Rootage, 2014
Acrylic, collage and sand on canvas
165 x 177 cm / 65 x 69.7 inches
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Reima Nevalainen
Scary thoughts, 2011
Acrylics, oil, collage and spray on MDF-board
100 x 130 cm / 39.4 x 51.2 inches
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photo: Reima Nevalainen
Born in Espoo, Finland 1984 | Lives and works in Porvoo, Finland
Reima Nevalainen’s use of collage and décollage is intimately connected to the thematic content of his paintings. What we see on the canvas are vestiges of a complex process of cutting, ripping, and erasing. His technique involves a laborious process of addition, removal, trial, and error. For Nevalainen, painting is a way of scrutinizing physical reality and the way we perceive it – painting is an antidote to the disembodied stream of images that consumes our daily existence.
Humans and nature serve as the subject matter of Reima Nevalainen’s collage paintings – not as conflicting elements, however, for human figures and nature coexist as equals in his compositions. Nevalainen mines his subject matter from personal experience, trusting in the intuitive power of the subconscious. The sense of intimacy is heightened by his multi-layered collage technique, in which he combines paint with materials such as sand and paper, or scrapes away the paint to reveal contrasting surfaces underneath.
Nevalainen graduated as a painting major from Kankaanpää Art School in 2008. He was chosen as Finland’s Young Artist of the Year in 2016. He has held numerous solo shows in Finland and throughout Europe, the US, and Japan. His work is found in Finland’s leading museums including Helsinki Art Museum HAM and the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma.
Galerie Forsblom has been representing Reima Nevalainen since 2011.