Pauli Vuorisalo (1944-2017), Mixed Media On Canvas From 1970

Pauli VUORISALO. Mixed media on canvas monogrammed lower right and dated 1970. Countersigned on the back and titled. Small losses. Size 103 x 76cm Pauli Vuorisalo, born in Kankaanpää on 16 April 1944, was a precocious artist. At the age of 16, he made his first appearance in a joint exhibition in Pori and at the age of twenty, he founded the Kankaanpää art school. Vuorisalo was known as a versatile visual artist who used several techniques throughout his career. He believed that every thought and event found its own natural form. Vuorisalo created drawings, graphics, gouaches, ceramics, glass works and textile art. He also wrote poems. Vuorisalo, from Satakunta, was interested in the Finnish design industry. In the mid-1980s, he was a visiting artist in Arabia, creating a collection of fabric designs for Marimekko and a little later a series of glass vases for Iittala. Vuorisalo considered himself a representative of the so-called Parisian school. He studied in France from 1969 to 1974. Vuorisalo says he escaped the narrow-mindedness of the Finnish art world by going to Paris. The artist loved theatre and was often seen at social events sharing his stories. The last exhibition was held at Kulttuurikeskus Sofia in Helsinki in 2012. Vuorisalo died of cancer at the age of 73 at Haartman Hospital in Helsinki on 21 December. The disease was diagnosed only a week before his death.