Taira Tiger and Rose-Mari Torpo
Dialogue in colour
25.4 - 6.5.2017
Galerie Pleiku, Berlin

Welcome to the opening on Tuesday 25th of April from 7-9 pm

The exhibition consists of paintings of two artists; Taira Tiger and Rose-Mari Torpo. The works presented are conceived through experimentation with different techniques and materials creating a dialogue based on colour. The essence of colour is the shared interest of the two artists. Tiger exhibits ink works on paper and Torpo presents works made with ink, acrylic and spray paint on canvas and on plastic net.
Since it is challenging to submit colour to a logical or verbal analysis, it is difficult to discuss or write about it. The colour affects our subconscious mind, memory and collective history in a unique and irreplaceable way. It touches the non-cognitive, deeply sensorial and irrational level of ourselves.
Colour is a psychological and physical experience of the observer. The viewer with her presence and perception makes the significance of the artwork. 

Galerie Pleiku
Eugen-Schönhaar-Straße 6A
10407 Berlin
open: Tuesday to Saturday 3-7pm

www.galeriepleiku.com

Kakofonia!
Rantakasarmin galleria/ Jetty Baracks Gallery
13.4 - 7.5.2107

Welcome to the opening on Wednesday 12th of March from 5 pm to 7 pm

Kakofonia! is group show of ten artists presenting sculpture, video, painting, installation and textile art.

Jetty Baracks Gallery
Suomenlinna 1 c
00190 Helsinki
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open: Tue-Thu 12-5.30 pm
            Fri- Sun 11.30- 4 pm

​www.helsingintaiteilijaseura.fi

Engram - paintings
Sebastian Lindberg, Taira Tiger, Rose-Mari Torpo
17.2 - 8.3. 2017
Saskia Gallery, Tampere

Welcome to the opening  on Friday the 14th of February from 6pm

Artist's talk on Wednesday the 8th of March

Saskia Gallery
Pirkankatu 6
33210 Tampere
Open daily 12 -18

​www.tampereensaskiat.com

Wave - paintings
29.9. - 23.10.2016
Aarni Gallery, Espoo

Welcome to the opening on the 28th of September from 6-8pm.


Galleria Aarni
Heikintori, Tapiola Kauppamiehentie 1,
02100 Espoo
Wed-Fri 11-18
Sat-Sun 12-16
​www.espoonkuvataiteilijat.fi 

Rose-Mari Torpo, Eeva Honkanen,Vesa Arjatsalo
FENDER-BENDER
Paintings and drawings 29.6. - 23.7.2016
Welcome to the opening on Tuesday the 28th of June from 5pm. .
Tm-Gallery

Fender-bender is a metaphor describing the unexpected encounters of the works of three artists. The exhibition consists of Vesa Arjatsalo’s oil paintings, Eeva Honkanen’s ink drawings and Rose-Mari Torpo’s paintings on canvas and plastic net. The visual and conceptual contrapositions of the works create a dynamic and entriguing atmosphere.
Together the artists’ work combine themes such as serenity and restlessness, motion of time and stillness, happiness and uncertainty of being; these contradictions, contrapositions and unforseeable details will capture the attention of audience. 

​Tm-Gallery
Erottajankatu 9b,
00130 Helsinki

Open: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 11-17, Wednesday 11-18, Saturday 11-16, Sunday closed 
www.painters.fi/tmgalleria

Tammikuun valo
16.1 - 3.2.2016
Galleria Promenadi
Hyvinkää

Welcome to the opening Friday 15th of January from 6pm.

Galleria Promenadi
Vaiveronkatu 10
05900 Hyvinkää

gallery open:
Tue-Fri 10-18
Sat 10-15
Sun 13-18
​www.hyvinkaantaiteilijaseura.com

Kaiku - Paintings
10.6. - 5.7.2015
Gallery Uusi Kipinä, Lahti


Welcome to the opening on the 9th of June at 6 pm
Kenno: Rose-Mari Torpo

Gallery Uusi Kipinä
Kymintie 1
Lahti

Open
Tue–Fri 12–18
Sat–Sun 12–16
www.galleriauusikipina.fi

Tammikuun Valo - Sebastian Lindberg, Arttu Sailo, Taira Tiger and Rose-Mari Torpo
Paintings
5.3 - 29.3.2015
Galleria Rantakasarmi

Welcome to the opening on the 4th of March from 5 - 7pm

The exhibition Tammikuun Valo offers four different approaches on experiencing colour, surface and material. Sebastian Lindberg and Arttu Sailo are figurative painters while Taira Tiger’s and Rose-Mari Torpo’s works belong to the abstract painting tradition.
The works elaborate concepts such as harmony, contrast, movement and lack of motion. The groups common denominator is a colour based way of working. The themes in the exhibition are observing the mind and the external world as well as the physical approach to painting. The materiality and the immateriality create contrast between the works and the artists. The viewer participates in the creation of the art work’s concept with his observance and presence.



Galleria Rantakasarmi
Suomenlinna C1, 00190 Helsinki
Open: Tue-Thu 12-5.30pm, Fri-Sun 11.30-4pm
www.helsingintaiteiljaseura.fi

Ekho / Kaiku
Rose-Mari Torpo
Installation and paintings
Galleria 3H+k
30.1 - 19.2.2015
Opening on  29th of January from 6pm
Welcome
The themes in the exhibition are reiteration and reflection through colour.

The installation “ Kaiku/ Ekho” consists of the diary entries of the year 2014 displayed in chronological order in the space.

Each diary entry is a reiteration of an oval stencil noted with its date and its colour. I have selected a neutral shape, the oval as a symbolic representation to the day. Like the words in a diary,  the colour given to the oval represents the feeling, emotions, moods, light or colour in the nature of that day. When colouring the oval, I tried to use as less texture as possible so the hues and tonality remain the most important components. 

In this project I studied the potential of the colour as a mean of expression and the relations between individual and communal experiencing. Each of us have a very individual way of sensing and feeling about colours. There are no general verified rules related to how we sense colours and for example which colours represent joy or sadness or hope etc..thus this diary is a personal view on the subject. The paper serves as a media to reflect life and to document time. The installation transforms a private diary into public.

The paintings in the exhibition are an extension of the installation both in terms of content and form.





Itsenäisyydenkatu 47, 28100 Pori
Open Wed-Fri 12-18, Sat-Sun 11-16
www.nyte.fi
galleria3hk@gmail.com