I am virtually always in my studio, either physically or in my head.
I make wall panels and sculptures using semiprecious stones and minerals, freshwater pearls, gold and glass. The artwork is very detailed with strong textures. Most of the pieces are representational with references to time, space, growth and strength.
My life has come a full circle, from countryside to countryside albeit from Finland to Brazil.
An exciting life of constant change and adaptation. Now in the calm of my studio I am processing decades of experiences and influences trying to finally answer the question “Who Am I?” Deep down.
Nature is truly important in this process. The high canopy of the forest stores the floating ideas, birds and a waterfall create the music. The arched studio windows touch the spiritual side of me, the space feels safe in which to explore that which wants to be heard.
The scenery, the sky, the elongated female body and the tiny “Waterpeople” figures are the vehicles through which I transform my musings into being. Much of my work is dark to the eye, yet positive, even playful in meaning.
Through an individual technique with a predominance of glass Eva Rossi-Kivimäki creates her art achieving truly unusual results. Born of a real artistic passion and through the choice of themes the work transforms itself into an immediate and efficient message.
The value of Eva Rossi-Kivimäki’s art comes from which is the most intimate and most hidden, most intimate and most hidden, most improvised and most sincere. Not only is the work about art but about an independent and free cry of her real truth.
In effect, there is no real difference between the more informal work and work that depicts more realistic subjects.
Eva Rossi-Kivimäki’s creativity is born her true interior, thus it is not reproductine or imitative.
Within the darkness of the majority of her work, a magic luminosity is reflected through the multicolored pieces of glass she uses.
Emanuel von Lauenstein
Massarani
Crítico de Arte
São Paulo, Brazil
The monochromatic visions of Eva Rossi-Kivimäki evokes a primordial mysticism which introduces the viewer to a parallel scenario, unconscious and atavistic in which the spatial-temporal dimension appears emphatically suspended. The figurative narrative is congealed as a result of the choice of the materials which express the true essence in the fulcrum of the synthesis.The expressive essence reaches an unexpected visual equilibrium by balancing the refined preciousness typical of Eva Rossi-Kivimäki’s art. The artist addresses with new compositional parameters the duality between the concepts of absence and presence, the arcane boundary between dream and reality, the relationship between past and future, the union between the extreme essentiality of the image and the materials used, a recall of an echo of primitive art and simultaneously of an abstract
decorativism more than contemporary.
Sabrina Falzone
Critico e Storico dell’Arte
Milano
The artistic investigation of Eva Rossi-Kivimäki opens up new expressive trajectories like windows of the soul. Achieved through a plastic research, the sculptural artwork of the Finnish artist displays a tendency of essentiality and an expressive synthesis.
The artworks analyzed, “Bird Woman” and “Going Out”, are sculptures of exaggerated vertical forms, elegant in their solemnity and extraordinarily sophisticated. Executed in a mixed technique, basically with different materials like onyx, pearl or tourmaline on metal these stylized figures probe into the mythological territory of the metamorphosis and more generally the delicate theme of change.
These are, however, pieces of a strong visible impact, inspired by the feminine universe be it in the stylistic choices or in the meanings of the hidden symbols, the woman is at the same time a mother and the generator of life.
The verticality of these sculptures underline, in fact, spirituality and an allusion to another dimension, the soul. The ascending movement indicates the spiritual elevation of the human being, almost evoking totems. Here the recall to primitivism is evident : the artist expresses herself through a compelling research which is born of the wish to strip the contemporary society of the sumptuous garments which over time it has acquired. The artist intends in this way to remove the veil of hypocrisy and return to a dimension which is more simple and authentic to the humanity.
Sabrina Falzone
Critico e Storico dell’Arte
Milano