Jouni Toni: Cut

“Cutting and incisions connect all the works in this exhibition and their creation process, regardless of the subject matter.

For this body of work, the cutting has been completed, and the results are now on display.

From films we know that in Hollywood, the director’s job is to shout ‘Cut!’

In our daily lives, we are constantly exposed to wounds and slashes.

Over time, the skin thickens, and the tools for healing sharpen. Art can serve as one of those tools among many.

At the same time, cuts are being made… Well, let’s not get stuck overinterpreting the title, which I only came up with at the very last moment, after the works were already finished.”

At the core of Jouni Toni’s practice lies a digital sketching process that has generated an archive of thousands of images. Digitality enables a freely flowing experimentation where compositions and colors transform endlessly before they move onto canvas. The finished paintings are built in layers, reflecting a dialogue between the digital and the analog worlds. In Toni’s works, geometric shapes, pastel tones, and surprising contrasts create spaces where lightness meets emotional depth. This lightness, combined with recurring themes of emptiness and incompleteness, invites active viewers to complete the works on their own terms. Ultimately, it is about an attempt to create order out of chaos—a need to distill the ever-accelerating flood of information and stimuli into perceivable wholes.

Jouni Toni (b. 1984, lives and works in Tampere) graduated as a visual artist from Satakunta University of Applied Sciences in Kankaanpää in 2010. Toni worked as a resident artist at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 2014–2015 and at WOW Amsterdam in 2017–2018. He has won first prizes both in the Royal Dutch Painting Competition in 2015 and in the Art of Basware competition for young artists in Finland in 2010. His works have been featured in numerous exhibitions in Finland and abroad, and in Finland, they are included in collections such as the Helsinki Art Museum.

Open

Tue–Fri 9 a.m. – 8 p.m.

Sat–Sun 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Free admission!

Read more about the artist: www.jounitoni.com

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