HC Editions - 2019

Subtropic 1

Screen print 59,4x42cm 2019 Edition of 20

Botanical Study

Screen print 59,4x42cm 2019 Edition of 20

Subtropic 2

Screen print 59,4x42cm 2019 Edition of 20

Education

2010 – 2011 Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, MfA, Painting department
2006 – 2010 Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, BfA, Painting department
2003 – 2006 Alfa-Art School, painting

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

2021 Spririt, Helsinki Contemporary, Helsinki, Finland
2019 Indoor Fireworks, Helsinki Contemporary, Helsinki, Finland
2017 GREENWALL, HAM Gallery, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2015 In these forms I trust, Forum Box gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2013 Stargazing, Korjaamo Galleria, Helsinki, Finland
2011 Planet Paint, Maalauksia, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland

Group Exhibitions (selected)

2021 Pinta, Purnu Art Centre, Orivesi, Finland
2019 Kosketus/Beröring, Galeri Sinne, Helsinki, Finland
2019 Kosketus/Beröring, Seinäjoki Kunsthalle, Sienäjoki, Finland
2018 Kosketus/Beröring, Aine Art Museum, Tornio, Finland
2018 Mänttä Art Festival XXIII, Mänttä, Finland
2017 Hautamäki / Havia / Somervuori, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland
2016 Haava – Seppo Fränti’s collection, Lapinlahden lähde, Helsinki, Finland
2016 Hautamäki/Havia/Lehtonen/Somervuori, Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna, Finland
2015 Young Artists 2015, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
2015 Hautamäki/Havia/Somervuori The Aine Art Museum, Tornio, Finland
2014 Uuden Polven Museo, Jyväskylä, Finland
2014 Yrjö16, empty office take over, Yrjönkatu 16, Helsinki, Finland
2014 Cosmogramma, galeria Blanca Soto, Madrid, Spain
2014 Finnish By Nature – Beacon Helsinki showroom, Milan Design week, Milano, Italy
2013 Höstsalongen 2013, Edsvik Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
2013 Sommar i Gumbostrand, Konst & Form gallery, Sipoo, Finland
2013 Hautamäki, Havia, Somervuori, Galleria Koivulinna, Pukkila, Finland
2012 Maalauksia/Paintings, XL Art Space, Helsinki, Finland
2011 Art of Basware, Sanomatalo mediatori, Helsinki
2011 Billnäs Young Artists 2011 (1st Prize), Billnäs Bruk, Billnäs, Finland
2011 MfA exhibition, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
2009 BfA exhibition, Kaiku-Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

Public Artworks and Commissions

2019 Public artwork for Munkkivuori Elementary School, Helsinki, Finland

Memberships

Finnish painters’ union
Forum Box gallery, member of board

Residencies

2011 Utö, The Finnish of Academy Fine Arts
2010 Berlin, The Finnish of Academy Fine Arts

Collections

The Portrait of the President Sauli Niinistö of the Republic of Finland, together with 100 artists. The Collection of the Prime Ministers Office Finland.
HUS Collection
Hämeenlinna Art Museum
Helsinki Art Museum
J&A Wihuri Foundation
Nurmijärvi Local Council
K, A & K OY Collection
Piippo – Collection
Fränti collection

Selected Articles and Publications

2019 Niin&Näin, 3/2019
2019 Timo Valjakka kysyy taiteilijalta, Taide lehti 1/2019
2018 Kosketus, maalauksen kokemuksellisuus, Mika Hannula, Parus Versus, 2018
2018 Näkemisen hallinta katsomisen viidakossa, Lapin Kansa, Richard Kautto, 31.10.2018
2018 Kohtaamisia maalausten kanssa, Marjaana Niskala, Kaleva, 28.10.2018
2018 Taiteiija, Deko lehti, 6/2018
2017 Robert – nautinnollisen elämän käsikirja, Robert’s Coffee
2016 Teko = Teos, Raisa Jäntti, Taide lehti 2/2016
2015 Portfolio: Ilari Hautamäki, Ny Tid, 10/2015
2015 NYT 3 – Näyttelyt, HS NYT, 20.3.2015
2015 Avantgarde ja taiteen kapina, Richard Kautto, Pohjolan Sanomat, 5.11.2015
2015 Ääripäät yhdessä, Tuulikki Kourilehto, Pohjolan Sanomat, 1.10.2015
2015 Taideteoksilla Suomi nousuun, Timo Valjakka, HS, 7.6.2015
2015 Välitiloja ja leikkiä tulella, Timo Valjakka, HS, 18.3.2015
2015 Sekoita, ravistele ja mausta, Marjaana Niskala, Kaleva, 4.10.2015
2013 Nyt nostalgisoidaan leikillisesti 1980-luvulla, Harri Mäcklin, HS, 9.4.2013

Contact:
ilari.hautamaki (at) gmail.com

Represented by Helsinki Contemporary

Ilari Hautamäki (b. 1983) is a Helsinki based visual artist. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, in 2011 and has since shown actively in solo and group exhibitions. His most recent sizeable solo exhibition was at the HAM Gallery, Helsinki, in 2017. His group exhibitions include those at Mänttä Art Festival, Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Jyväskylä Art Museum, and the Young Artists exhibition at Kunsthalle Helsinki. In 2018-2019, Hautamäki took part in The Touchexhibition series at Tornio Art Museum, Seinäjoki Art Hall and Pro Artibus’ Sinne gallery in Helsinki. His works are represented in Helsinki Art Museum, HAM’s collection, the Wihuri art collection, and elsewhere.

About working :

”The foundation of my work is the basic elements of painting : Colours and shapes / rhythm and composition. I move in between abstraction and figuration, leaving the viewer with a picture in which there is no single interpretation.

I usually begin my paintings with a fast and intuitive painting act, which follows up a careful and planned process. In this process I tend to let the paintings take the lead, I can make very dramatic changes on my paintings in the very end. I often combine organic elements, that may resemble foliage and nature, with industrial forms and solid, geometrical shapes. I play around and balance with a combination of planning and intuition / organic and industrial, which gives a tension and synthesis for my work.

The nature like elements formed up in a rather gradual manner. After many attempts on making mark and gesture I came to a realization that the motive I was seeking for all along was closer than I knew of: Just out side the door. The endeavour is not to picture nature as it is, but rather interpret it’s character from my memory.” – Ilari Hautamäki, 2018.

”The surface offers everything”

Text by Veikko Halmetoja (Gallerist/Curator) for GREENWALL exhibition at HAM Gallery in 2017.

Many typical questions surrounding paintings seem out of context when examining Ilari Hautamäki’s works. What do these paintings tell, what do they portray? The answers are less relevant. Hautamäki’s paintings are based on form. Their subjects adapt well to this purpose as abstract arrangements starring plants. Be the subject a greenwall, a flower pot, or a climbing plant, the subject becomes secondary to the surface. Hautamäki represents intellectual contemporary painting where the form is the most important content. This said, we can forget the question of representation. A more interesting question is to ask what the paintings tell. And even that would better be phrased as: What happens in these paintings?

Through a first inspection, the seemingly static paintings seem to include many different events. These events do not inform us of growth, landscapes, nor even of the cultural history of still lifes. The events in the paintings are tensions, forces and balances between different forms and colours. This is all ambiguous. The spectator’s previous knowledge of the history of abstract art undoubtedly plays a part in their interpretation. Another part is played by the visual experiences already known to excite the viewer. Some might look at the paintings through one’s own experiences of nature, others through virtual reality or architecture. The fundamental experience has to do with different perceptions of beauty.

An emblematic feature of Hautamäki’s art is a two-fold colour palette. Hautamäki is a colourist, yet one who uses primary colours very deliberately. The range of colour often shifts to white, leading to strong contrasts between pastel hues and a scarce scale of primary colours, as seen in several paintings. A bright, translucent green dominates the paintings. Strong and lively, it offers a breathing counterpart to the pastel colours in their comfortable, static standstill. The dichotomy of two different worlds of form is also based on the inner movement of painted surfaces. The calm surfaces of colour and the elements confining the illusion of movement throughout the surface of the piece battle the bold, relaxed, expressive-like brushstrokes as freely as the leaves of a climbing plant against a tile wall.Hautamäki does not represent a mechanical or efficient type of abstract painting. He reaches for a voiced imagery where the decaying form of informalism fits into the same arrangement with conventional concretism through an obedient irony. His works are often confined inside the painted surface. The concrete solutions where Hautamäki frames his arrangement from almost every possible angle are like a declaration to examine the painting as a surface. On the other hand, the quiet hints grow louder and gain significance as the viewer aims to let the painting develop in one’s own mind well past its concrete surface.