Tiina Heiska, Paintings 2003 - 2013 /Text by Henna Paunu In her paintings, Tiina Heiska depicts the human condition, our contact with ourselves and existence. The viewer’s identification with the experiences and spatiality in these paintings is achieved by the...
Elephant Magazine # 6 Margherita Dessaney looks at how the modern language of film and moving images has transformed the traditional art of painting, while featuring the work of Guillaume Bressons, Andy Denzler, Jeremy Geddes, Nicole Hayden, Tiina Heiska, Joyce Ho,...
From the publication The Body In Women’s Art Now, part 2 – Flux Text by Philippa Found ”Similarly, Tiina Heiska’s paintings focus on the body of the adolescent as a site of transformation and awakening, presenting ambiguous female characters of indefinable ages –...
From the publication The Body In Women’s Art Now, part 2 – Flux Text by Tracey Warr Three of the artists in this exhibition, Tiina Heiska, Sara Lederman and Helen Carmel Benigson, focus on the precarious tipping point between girlhood and womanhood. Heiska’s...
One of the works shows a man sprawled on a bed with his left arm extended towards the viewer. The broad sketchy brushstrokes veil his features and make it impossible to tell whether he is even alive or simply resting in a state of post-coital oblivion. Herein the work...
Keskenään hyvin erilaiset maailmat sysäävät katsojaan samankaltaisiin odottaviin tunnelmiin: Tiina Heiskan (1959) maalauksissa näkyy usein naisen tai nuoren tytön hahmo, toisinaan katsojan silmien eteen leikkautuvat vain epäröivät jalat ja minihame. Teokset liikkuvat...
Finnish artist Tiina Heiska´s work is based on photography, which she uses as a sketch or a draft for the later painted image. Her works carry a poetic mystique owing to the painterly quality but also to the fact that their inherent narrative is never obvious. Her...
Texte: Juha-Heikki Tihinen L’art de Tiina Heista révèle sa profondeur par touches furtives, comme pour séduire son observateur. Au premier abord, les œuvres semblent calmes et posées, mais rapidement on y entrevoit un courant ou un mouvement qui produit un...
Text by Juha-Heikki Tihinen Tiina Heiska’s art reveals its insightfulness furtively, as if seducing the viewer. Her works seem peaceful and arranged at first, but their flow and movement will soon emerge and instil a sense of excitement and anticipation in the...
Teksti: Juha-Heikki Tihinen Tiina Heiskan taide paljastaa syvällisyytensä vaivihkaa, ikään kuin viettelee katsojan Teokset vaikuttavat aluksi tyyniltä ja asetelmamaisilta, mutta sangen pian niissä ilmenevä virtaus tai liike saa katsojassa aikaan kiihtymyksen ja...