Teemu kangas

Our minds aim to order reality to a sensible whole through our senses and cognitions. The background of the portraits suggest a storm or a fire. An interpretation of some hell dwelling spirits comes forth. A Buddhist text the Fire Sermon states that our senses and cognitions are actually on fire and the answer to…

The ancient Greeks had a myth of a land far in the north, home of the boreal winds, where the sun never sets. This body of work considers the polar regions as a metaphor for mental scapes. What kind of people are drawn to such extremes, does the harsh physical surroundings reflect the inner realities…

The landscapes are inspired by East Asian landscape painting and a book Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing by René Daumal. The sceneries are depictions of landscapes created spontaneously on creased paper. In a poetic sense, the mind wanders freely on the surface as the brush strokes and ink…

The installations are concerned with representation, or more specifically, bringing mental representations into physical reality in the form of “sculpture pictures”. The pieces might appear to have been printed with a large format printer, but are actually done by hand. True Nature poses the question of whether representation is enough in order to experience the…

The abstract paintings of Teemu Kangas are mostly based on drawing vertical or horizontal straight lines. Typically, the lines are drawn by balancing a brush on the side of a ruler which is held in the other hand at a 45-degree angle, to prevent ink from seeping under the ruler and staining the paper. Sometimes…