Timo Heino

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b. 1962, Tampere, Finland

Visual Artist, Sculptor, Installation Artist

Residence: Helsinki

Contact information

Email: timoheinoart@gmail.com

Artist’s Statement

A central theme in my art is the investigation of the material world. My focus is on the history, identity and future of substances, and on the way their symbolic meaning and people’s relationship to them has changed in different eras. I often juxtapose contrasting substances perceived as representing different categories, such as hi-tech materials with substances that are organic. Ultimately, this dualism may be understood as anti-dualistic. Through it, the dichotomy between nature and culture becomes questionable. In my view, we are inseparable parts of nature. In us, the world tells of itself.

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Works from the artist

Name of the work: Whip Master / Koivuniemen herra, 2007

Name of the work: Gravitation/ Vetovoima, 1999

Name of the work: Reformatory / Kasvatuslaitos, 2001

Name of the work: Dialogue / Dialogi, 2005

Name of the work: Bypass Surgery VIII / Ohitusleikkaus VIII, 2007

Name of the work: Whip Master / Koivuniemen herra, 2007 (detail / yksityiskohta)

Name of the work: Addiction / Addiktio, 2011

Name of the work: Spitted Space / Sylkäisty avaruus, 2013

Name of the work: Spitted Space /Sylkäisty avaruus, 2013 (detail / yksityiskohta)

Bio

Timo Heino (b. 1962 Tampere) graduated in 1989 at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, where he studied painting and sculpture. He has also taught at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1998 onward, and before that in the Free Art School, Helsinki, from 1996 to 1998. Heino lives and works in Helsinki.