Photographers
Niko Luoma: Rhythm, Direction and Weight at Atlas Gallery
PhotocriticEtcNew work by Finnish artist Niko Luoma, one of the most celebrated amongst the Helsinki School of Photography, will go on display for the first time in the UK at his second exhibition at Atlas Gallery this autumn.
The exhibition will showcase large-scale works from the series ‘Adaptations’ in which Luoma creates striking abstract adaptions of well-known works of art, such as Night Fishing at Antibes and Weeping Woman by Pablo Picasso, Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh and Vase of flowers by Joannes Fyt, through the repeated exposure of a negative to light. Luoma has developed a completely unique process and has gained a reputation as one of the most exciting contemporary photographers working today.
Luoma’s ‘Adaptions’ are created in his studio with analogue techniques and are a continuation of his previous works utilising multiple exposures. He has held a long-held interest with space and composition, and this is combined with an exploration of memory in these adaptions of well-known paintings.
Niko Luoma: Rhythm, Direction and Weight runs at Atlas Gallery, 49 Dorset Street, London, W1U 7NF, from 15 September to13 November 2017.
