CITY SQUARE – Jouni Toni

The exhibition consists of paintings and three-dimensional works completed during the previous year. The themes explored in the works include urban space as a stage, facades, public transportation stops, waiting, permanence-change, time, painting in general, and the essence of the painting object.
The title “Aukio” refers to an open space in the landscape; in a town, it could mean a park, a smaller market area than a square, or an open block.
The works form a whole in which the combination of paintings and sculptures placed in the space produces new meanings depending on the viewer’s perspective, creating fleeting impressions of movement in an imaginary urban space. A viewer engaging with the exhibition completes the space defined and framed by the works with their own presence and interpretations.

Jouni Toni (born 1984) lives and works in Tampere. Toni studied in the SAMK Kankaanpää Fine Arts program and at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten residency in the Netherlands. He has participated in numerous exhibitions in Finland and abroad. His works are included in private and public collections, including the Helsinki Art Museum collection.

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