Light Paintings By Janne Parviainen

Parviainen paints on old, used windows with his mixed-technique that involves oil color, metal leaves and permanent markers. Working on both sides of the glass, he produces a very strong feeling of depth and space into his paintings. As a historical element, the old window panes create a story of their own; life has been observed through the windows countless times before in their previous use. The metal leaves presenting the sky with their luminosity and reflections emphasize the paintings' technology-influenced appearence and so on distract it from the traditional nature portraits.
In the paintings of Janne Parviainen the urban landscapes - built by human hands and forgotten by the public eye - represent the city and it's emotional concept. For today's urban people, Finnish national landscape no longer is a top-of-the-hill view opening to a summery lake, but a constructed urban view, a place where you can associate with your history, actions and memories. The view of the painting reaches the city structures from a distance, like a snapshot through a window. The viewer of the painting can only anticipate the presence of people, they are not visible. The Trainyard and the urban landscape present themselves as selfindulgent and process-like.