A Mention in Taide Magazine
I was delightfully surprised this month by the discovery that one of the paintings from my recent exhibition, Maastopalo / Wild Fire, had been included in an article in the Finnish visual arts periodical Taide, along with a few sentences about my work in that exhibition. It is the 2/2025 issue of Taide, and the article is written by the head editor and art critic Pessi Rautio. The article is about how landscape is interpreted in Finnish art, from artists in the 19th C to those in contemporary exhibitions. Several artists’ works from recent Oulu Art Museum exhibitions, such as Koru8 and Samasta puusta are also discussed in the article. I will never know how much the luck of exhibition timing had to do with this, but I appreciate my work being seen and acknowledged by a publication meant for my contemporaries. A heartfelt thank you to Pessi Rautio and Taide!
Quote from the article “Maisema houkuttelee ihmisiä” by Pessi Rautio:
“Luonnon katoamista voi esittää kuvataiteessa myös suoremmin. Oulun Audiogalleriassa esiintynyt Petra Kaminen Mosher maalaa vaivattoman sulavasti ja miltei designmaisen viimeistellyllä akryylivärilla. Puut palavat, kankaan pinta peittyy metsäksi ja tuleksi. Tamä ei ole ekspressionistista sisäistä paloa, vaan tuo mieleen etäännytettynä ja jo miltei meemimäisenä kuva-aiheena mieleen uutiskuvissa yleistyneet roihuavat tuliseinät, ilmastonmuutoksen hälyttimet.
Kaminen Mosherin ulkoisesti huolettoman sulavuuden ja tausta-ajatuksen väliin syntyy sopiva hankaus. Komeaahan tämä on, mutta tuhoa yhtä kaikki.”
In English:
“The disappearance of nature can also be represented more directly in visual art. Petra Kaminen Mosher, whose work was presented at the Oulu AudioGallery, paints with effortless fluidity and an almost design-like finish in acrylic paint. Trees are burning; the canvas surface is covered in forest and fire. This is not an expressionistic internal fire, but a distanced and almost meme-like motif that brings to mind the images in the news that are becoming so common: blazing walls of fire, the alarms of climate change.
There is a fitting friction between Kaminen Mosher's outwardly easy gracefulness and the underlying idea. It's handsome, but destruction nevertheless.”
