Villa Gyllenberg to exhibit new works by Jarmo Mäkilä in autumn 2024
The Villa Gyllenberg Art Museum’s autumn exhibition presents new works by distinguished contemporary artist Jarmo Mäkilä. Mäkilä’s realistic paintings are mental landscapes occupying liminal spaces, on the borders between the inner and the outer. Some of the works have been prepared especially for this exhibition and are being presented in dialogue with art in the Gyllenberg Collection. The central themes of the works, which evoke conflicting and strong emotions, are the development of the self and the importance of memories and the subconscious.
The exhibition Jarmo Mäkilä – I am a Multitude will run from 23 October 2024 to 2 March 2025. The curator of the exhibition is art critic and artist Timo Valjakka. The exhibition architect is Päivi Kettunen.
![Jarmo Mäkilä, Lost Boys, 2024, oil on canvas, owned by the artist. Photo: Jussi Tiainen.](/data/images/public/69819587/70449939/57598ad8-3972-4691-bd94-1cfd9f5a62e8-w_720.jpg)
Hidden and visible lives
Jarmo Mäkilä's visual language is realistic, even meticulous, but the events he depicts are far from everyday reality. His paintings are metaphorical worlds that include all of his selves, from knee-high boy to the threshold of adulthood, plus alternative presents and futures, real and imagined.
“Things are not what they seem,” says Jarmo Mäkilä. “A picture is not what you see, but what it awakens in you and what is behind it. A person lives, in a way, two lives: external and internal. One is hidden and the other is visible. I am trying to engage with my hidden life.”
Ane Gyllenberg too was interested in the development of the self and the effect of spirituality on a person. This interest is reflected in the art collection of the Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation, which includes numerous works depicting inner dialogue and spiritual exploration. Mäkilä feels that his reflections on the development of the self connect him with Ane Gyllenberg, and he has chosen works from the Gyllenberg Collection that he feels are meaningful to him. The artist's works have previously been exhibited in parallel with works at the Gallen-Kallela Museum (2020) and the Sinebrychoff Art Museum (2021–2022).
New works explore the process of ageing
Jarmo Mäkilä (b. 1952) is one of the most significant painters of his generation and has had many selves, also as an artist. He has always followed his own path and made his breakthrough in the 1970s as a social realist, rose to the top of Finnish postmodernism in the 1980s, and surprised in the 1990s as a prominent cartoonist. In recent decades, he has looked at his childhood in post-war Finland and done so in a way where the individual’s subjective experiences expand to become recognisable on a general level.
The exhibition at Villa Gyllenberg consists of Jarmo Mäkilä’s recent works, some of which are being exhibited for the first time. One of its prominent themes is time: on the one hand growing up and on the other, physical aging. Over the years, Mäkilä has painted several portraits of his mother. In the exhibition, these portraits are compared to Helene Schjerfbeck’s self-portraits in the Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Collection, in which the artist mercilessly depicted her ageing and frailty. In addition to Mäkilä’s paintings, sculptures and an installation, the exhibition also presents works by such artists as Fanny Churberg, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Ernst Krohn, Väinö Kunnas and Tyko Sallinen.
A press conference will be held at the Villa Gyllenberg Art Museum on 22 October at 11am.
Contacts and interview requests:
Lotta Nylund, Chief Curator, lotta.nylund@gyllenbergs.fi
Siiri Oinonen, Head of Customer and Program Services, siiri.oinonen@gyllenbergs.fi (image requests)
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Lotta NylundVilla Gyllenberg
Tel:+358 40 576 1753lotta.nylund@gyllenbergs.fiSiiri OinonenVilla Gyllenberg
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![Jarmo Mäkilä, Lost Boys, 2024, oil on canvas, owned by the artist. Photo: Jussi Tiainen.](/data/images/public/69819587/70449939/57598ad8-3972-4691-bd94-1cfd9f5a62e8-w_240.jpg)
![Jarmo Mäkilä, Mother, 2019, oil on canvas, owned by the artist. Photo: Angel Gil.](/data/images/public/69819587/70449939/1d0e9700-387c-40f9-a68e-19e0dd10df27-w_240.jpg)
![Helene Schjerfbeck, Self-Portrait, Light and Shadow, 1945, oil on canvas, Villa Gyllenberg / Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation. Photo: Matias Uusikylä.](/data/images/public/69819587/70449939/8ce03950-d031-402a-ab53-01b28aa81988-w_240.jpg)
![Jarmo Mäkilä, Peter Pan, 2016, bronze, owned by the artist. Photo: Angel Gil.](/data/images/public/69819587/70449939/b25a8f0d-5974-4d93-bd3d-5cb9c424cb0e-w_240.jpg)
![Jarmo Mäkilä, Gate of Secrets, 2019, oil on canvas, private collection. Photo: Angel Gil.](/data/images/public/69819587/70449939/7f08879a-5ac6-48d5-b2bc-14f3449087b8-w_240.jpg)
![Jarmo Mäkilä, Tunnelkorv, 2023, oil on canvas, owned by the artist. Photo: Jussi Tiainen.](/data/images/public/69819587/70449939/12fd38f9-4820-4455-ae0a-62ab213d2e0f-w_240.jpg)
![Jarmo Mäkilä. Photo: Jussi Tiainen.](/data/images/public/69819587/70449939/1450e947-5384-4e20-ad6f-d7592f56eaaf-w_240.jpg)
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