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The high level of reflection to which painterly
photography and photographic painting are now
subject becomes vividly clear in Jorma Puranen's
recent photo series "Icy Prospects".
The motifs depicted here we seem to recognize
the sky, water, trees, a little church, a man
with his back slightly turned paint themselves
in "Icy Prospects" what is reflected
in the black-painted surface can only be guessed
at, remains enigmatic and many-layered. The
traditionally wooden image carrier of panel
painting shows irregularities and is not so
thickly covered with black alkyd as to allow
an even surface to emerge. The grain shows through.
The structure of this "image carrier"
is precisely captured. The "Icy Prospects"
give one the sense of beholding the world
a no-man's-land, where the landscape is also
sky through a thick layer of ice. But their
most striking impression is their closeness
to painting.
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