Äni, My Rosy Road art exhibition 18.1.2018 Helsinki / 28.2.2018 Oulu / 10.08.2018 Tuusula Night of the Arts 25th anniversary
Äni’s first art exhibition - My Rosy Road is a graphic novel about her survival of severe brain infection and how it impacted her life.
This life-changing experience launched her towards her career and devotion to art and positive social impact.
The art exhibition conveys her story in a number of ways. On display is every page of her comic as a framed artwork, as well as unique art such as sculptures, drawings, and paintings, which she used in composing her comic panels and expressing her point of view.
Through her exhibitions and novel, Äni has been able to give a message of love, hope, and encouragement for many facing lonely and difficult circumstances. Feel free to contact us if you want this exhibition featured in your home town or gallery. Sharing these artworks with the community has been a true blessing.
My Rosy Road is a truly touching experience worth sharing.
Read how Äni composed the triptych:
Heart°
Brain°
Tors°
The artistic process behind her artworks Brain° and Heart°
started with Äni forming the ceramic sculptures.
Then breaking them with a sledge hammer.
In this video, you can see how she hit the brain right where the infection occurred, on her right hippocampus.
Äni used an ancient, Japanese Kintsugi technique with Urushi tree lacquer to re-compose the broken pieces of her brains and heart.
Brain°
Äni, 2018
Ceramic Kintsugi sculpture
19 x 14 x 8cm
The beautiful idea behind Kintsugi is the value in broken or repaired objects/artifacts. Something that had become imperfect, broken, or useless could be repaired with gold to be even better and more beautiful than what it once was.
Heart°
Äni, 2018
Ceramic Kintsugi sculpture
10 x 10 x 10cm
The artistic process behind her Tors°
In this sculpture, a regular model has been created to resemble a body which has gone through a triumph by fire. The painting in Äni’s Tors° is inspired by Raku ceramic style.
Western Raku is a process where the object is heated in a fire, reaching around 1830F (1000C) at its highest temperature.
The artwork is removed from the kiln at bright red heat and subjected to post-firing smoking by being placed in containers of thatch. Which blackens raw clay, causes crazing in the glaze surface, and sometimes brings out beautiful metallic details.
Äni - Tors°, 2018
140 x 60 x 50cm
Plastic model, acrylic paint, ink