ICE – Simo Mantere

Simo Mantere is a 27-year-old painter living and working in Lappeenranta. In his abstract and partially landscape-inspired paintings, he depicts the transformation of landscapes, melting, coldness, ice, snow, and light.

The paintings explore nature, with chance playing a significant role in them. Changes occurring in nature often feel random. But are these changes always the result of some kind of law or principle? One starting point in the painting process is the idea of whether it’s possible to influence the randomness in a painting so consciously that the changes occurring in the image cannot be called random. Mantere is interested in the role of humans as shapers of the landscape.

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