Taidegraafikko Lauri Rankka |
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Graphic artist Lauri Rankka |
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Lauri Rankka has been a graphic artist since year 1971, he has studied at the art academy school of Finland 1972-76, he has participated in several Finnish Art exhibitions and has kept many private exhibitions i.e. in galleries Sculptor Helsinki, Bronda Helsinki and the graphic society gallery in Helsinki Finland and most recently in Tampere Finland and in Stockholm Sweden. Lauri Rankka has taken part in several exhibitions that have been organised by the graphic society of Finland. He has also participated in many well known exhibitions like Zebras tale in Titanic gallery in Turku Finland, swamp exhibition in Pudasjärvi Finland with a sculpture named Swamp crossing, anad with many exhibitions representing Finnish art abroad i.e. New York (USA), Moscow (Russia), Lindköping (Sweden), Firenze (Italy). His art works have also been shown in international graphic art exhibitions in different countries i.e. in Taiwan, Germany, Poland, Spain, most recently in Krakow Poland and Graphica Creativa Jyväskylä Finland. Lauri Rankka has received prices from e.g. Inter Contact Graphic Krakow-Prague 1995, Gdansk 1996, Finnish Art Society price 1988 and he has his works in following collections: Athenaeum of Finland, Finnish State, Parliament House of Finland. |
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and my art philosophy
I work with aquatinta as my printing technique because it suits my expression all the while using black color. When working on a piece it acquires its final look through several different stages in a long printing process. You aren’t able to see the final product straight away, and it helps me get to a more emancipated final look where coincidences and "accidents" play their part in the print at hand. My images are built from my own "meaningful positions", by varying and repeating the positioning of the figures. There might be a resemblance with calligraphy along with ancient rock-paintings. With my signs I want to portray a person alone, together with others and at the same time wanting to get closer or away, struggling for his own space or participating in carrying common burdens, a person just going along with a flow of events. I reckon my exemplars are expressive
artists. In my own work I’m going
towards the expressivity of the arm and hand. For this, My latest work consists of wood cuts that are reliefs consisting of the same shapes and figures as in my print work. I’ve also made concrete reliefs that are cast in molds dug in the ground. What I want to express In the stone age figures and marks were made on rock walls where the same theme was repeated for increased effect. The images were closely related to the way of life and survival back then, images of hunting and prey, birds and fish, fertility figures. In a way I see my own images as this kind of rock-paintings, in them I go through an inner dialogue, and sending a message. These images are my way of thinking. What I want to express is that figure, that group formation. My survival does not depend on hunting, but instead I depend on others whom I’m forced to affect in order to survive. In my work you can see a figure crouched in a forest resembling some creature or a person, maybe a plant. I also portray groups and formations of people.
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Curriculum VitaeLAURI RANKKA, Graphic Artist, Oulu, Finland, born 1950, Tel. +358 50
4049911, E-mail: Lauri.Rankka@pp.nic.fi |
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aquatinta
and dry point offer good possibilities. The black and white coloring of my
work is strong in its expressivity, but lift ground aquatinta does not
give a dead black surface but one that is vibrant and airy. 
