Matti Kujasalo is  one of the Finland’s internationally best-known artists. He has addressed issues of systematic Constructivist art for the past forty years. His retrospective exhibition in Czechia in 2017  was part of the Finland 100 Celebration  program.
 

Poetry of construction

Although the paintings and sculptures of Matti Kujasalo have all the attributes of the concretistic art, the works of the last few years contain something more, the unmistakable (obvious, non-interchangeable) poetry of proportions and the exciting symbolic of the unrepeatability of the shape, the fractal patterns balancing on the edges of medium of painting, playfulness and humor.

Matti says that paintings are his toys, being out of everyday life.

Graphics are inseparable part of  Matti's work, the viewer will be surprised by the precision and the small size of particles that built up the image and affect our vision as a three-dimensional object. Graphics sheets thus get the qualities of op-art.

Another original element is how Matti Kujasalo uses contrasts of shades of dark and light, sometimes to the limit of resolution. The series of eleven prints is not a random series but a logically arranged collection which explains the technical process of Matti's approach to constructivist art and emphasizes his emotional background.

Matti Kujasalo is one of the Finnish artists who have gained their international reputation and his works are part of major international museum collections and private collections.

Petr Řehoř / Curator