
Stockholms Auktionsverk Helsingborg shines the spotlight on contemporary Finnish graphic art as they now present a theme entirely devoted to Kuutti Lavonen's somewhat hypnotic etchings.
Lavonen is a versatile artist who has not only worked with graphics but also with painting and photography. He gained significant attention for his artistic decorations in St. Olof's Church in Tyrvi a few years into the 2000s. But his career began long before that. In 1978, he enrolled at the Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche in Urbino, Italy, before starting studies at the University of the Arts Helsinki's Academy of Fine Arts two years later, where he remained until 1984. Alongside his studies, he exhibited his work, and today, the list of cities where his art has been shown is very long.
At Stockholms Auktionsverk Helsingborg, we encounter Lavonen the portraitist. In 44 works, he demonstrates a discipline he masters fully. In them, one can detect nods to expressionist-oriented predecessors as well as significantly older masters from the Italian Renaissance. In Lavonen's prints, the leading figures of art history are merged into a concentrate of the very best.
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