Vesa Kivinen on Fstoppers

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Vesa produces various mixed media works by taking photographs of his oil and body-paintings as well as images from nature. The digital collages are then printed onto high end diasec, canvas, re-painted canvas and poster prints.

Vesa is best known for his collaboration with the Bollywood actress Veena Malik which was seen by around 300 million people all over the world through BBC World, The Independent, IBT, Times of India etc.Kivinen’s works were exhibited across the globe, including Finland, UK, Austria, Russia and the US

“When Finnish artist Vesa Kivinen captures your “portrait,” he doesn’t just hint at the contents of your soul—your deepest fears, desires, triumphs, and avenues of personal expression. Vesa brings them all to the surface, creating collage imagery that reveal more about his subjects than even the subjects themselves thought possible. While he is not the first to do this kind of work, he may very well be the best. ”
— DL Cade, Editor in Chief of 500px, February 2016

“Vesa’s art is amongst the most integrally advanced in the history of Western abstraction – no small claim, but one backed up by the works themselves. Rather than abstraction as a fleeing from life, his works are a diving into the incarnate mystery of human being — direct celebrations of the fullness of Life.”
— Michael Schwartz, Professor of History and Philosophy of Art, Augusta State University, March 2014