Creative Europe - Mikko Maasalo

07/04/2008 | Installation art | Finland

Mikko Maasalo

Posted by Emma Nori

Helsinki, 4.4.-27.4.2008

In MUU gallery an installation, consisting of a series of paintings and a “High Pressure Sodium” – lamp, creates optical motion in an attempt to direct the viewer’s attention to one’s own visual system.

The colour impressions created by painted surfaces of black, white and different shades of grey change when the dominant light gradually shifts from pink to orange as the lamp warms up to its full brightness and colour temperature.

On the video screened in MUU studio the red glow of a sunset slowly travels up the mountain side and finally disappears.

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