Homo Ludens – Playful Man

Harri Kivi is a multi-dimensional person, an innovator in the field of art and one of the most original artists in Finland. His stunning optical works, sensuous microuniverses, are like allusions to distant solar systems. Free from canonizations of art, Kivi's works move in between sculptures and paintings, as if taking the viewer to the last rooms of spacely waterways. To him, the optical upside-down turned cosmoses are symbols of enigmatic existence.

Light, time, space, enchantment, comfort and meditation are all essential for identity in the works full of vitality and color. Kivi answers to the world the same way as Fernand Léger: "When life is at its cruelest you need to find how to play." The path of Kivi's production is uncompromisingly inimitable and self-motivated and has no equivalent in Finland. His production has been linked to especially artists like Jeff Koons, Yayoi Kusama, and Anish Kapoor.