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Portaikkoa hallitsevat Anssi Hanhelan hillittömät maalaukset. Niiden äijäenergia ja suoraviivainen
mielenmaisema sopivat hienosti vanhan viljamakasiiniin, jonka portaat ovat kuluneet raskaita viljasäkkejä
kantaneiden työmiesten askeleista. Samalla Hanhelan hahmoissa on hersyvää itseironiaa ja kieli poskella
työstettyä kommenttia elitististä ja urbaania hifistelyä kohtaan.



Galleria Rankka, Pohojonen

Anssi Hanhela

Anssi Hanhela (b.1962) paints life. In his expressionism paintings vitality collides with existentialism.
In northern mindscapes this is no wonder for one who follows his internal nature, the road leads to a place without other people.
In the landscape, colors ring and ascendeth and eros is realized, glowing brightly.

However, in the mystical reality of nature, man is only a voyeur and mental connection, not an organic participant.
The relationship between humans is originally organic and of the body,
but when another person climbs on the other´s shoulders to become a burden, it kills the possibility of organic communication.
In this way, humans are only organic in relation to themselves.
They are existential – beings, that feel in many ways what exists singularly and what it is to be alone.

I can see this kind of perspective in Anssi Hanhela's paintings.
Their narrative and painterliness express a similar content.
At times freedom flows like breathing, although the soul has been captured in a zoo.
At other times the internal urge flows inward with sharp consequences.
The feeling of conflict is present.
At the end, it is nature that calls and Hanhela's images display hope and a new kind of urge to combine inner and outer nature.

Henri Hagman
painter, art critic
Rovaniemi, Finland

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Anssi Hanhela
Anssi Hanhela’s (born in 1962) family roots are in Jokikylä’s
Pikkujämsänperä in Seppälä along Jokelantie, where his father is from. For
several years Anssi also lived in Jokikylä and worked as the instructor of
Kiiminkijoki College's visual arts clubs. For years a group of young and
older visual art students met at Jokela school. As a devoted and skilled
teacher, Anssi created an enthusiastic and good spirit for his groups. This is
how he made people fall for visual arts.



Anssi graduated as a visual artist from Kankaanpää Art School in 1986. He
has since furthered his studies in Kemi-Tornio University of Applied
Sciences, Faculty of Art and Design in University of Lapland, and the
University of Umeå in Sweden. Anssi 's main techniques include painting,
drawing, serigraphy and videos. He is a member of Finnish Painters’ Union
as well as Artist Associations of Lapland and Oulu.



The next quote is from the artist statement included in the Artist Register by
Finnish Painters’ Union. “Hanhela’s career as an artist began in the 1980’s
as an expressive landscape painter. He came full circle at the turn of the
millennium when he returned to paint colorful paintings of a man's life
alongside a woman, of a man as part of a rural idyllic soul landscape, after
painting constructive images of God and minimalistic hidden pictures about
sexuality. Hanhela's humor is black and sarcastic, but this mischief is not
meant to be taken too seriously merely as an access to something new.
Painting is a tool for him to analyse feelings and thoughts, put them in
order, and then laugh over loudly.”


Over the years, Anssi has had numerous private group exhibitions in Finland
and abroad. In addition to Finland, his works have been exhibited in
Sweden, Norway, Germany, Estonia, Russia, Latvia, Poland and
Switzerland. In addition to painting and exhibitions, Anssi has worked as a
teacher for various lengths among others at Liminka Art school, Piippola
School of Arts and Crafts, Vocational College of Western Lapland, Central
School of Yli-Ii as well as at various weekend courses organised by different
communties, and other fine art events.


Anssi had a tragic accident in October 2012, when he lived in his father's
house in Jokikylä. He had carbon monoxide poisoning, which put him into a
coma for nearly three months. Miraceliously Anssi recovered from it, and
even though the accident left its marks, he has been working very hard since
and has held several exhibitions of his new paintings. Theatre director and
artist, Erja Kärkkäinen, has been a great support and encouragement for
Anssi.

Hanna Manninen Galleristi Mabd galleria Oulu




tm•gallery

Tm-gallerian kritiikki Veikko Halmetoja

  Julkaistu: 6.2.2010

  Anssi Hanhela 14.2. saakka TM-galleriassa (Erottajankatu 9 B). Ti-pe 11-17, la-su 12-16.

  Maripaita pukee miestä Kuvat. Pohjoisen miehen mielenlaatu on kasvanut      
  käsitteeksi useiden taiteilijoiden voimin.
  Muun muassa Timo K. Mukka, Kalervo Palsa, Esko Männikkö, Rosa Liksom ja
  Lordi ovat olleet luomassa
  suomalaiseen taiteeseen yksinäisen miehen arkkityyppiä.

  Anssi Hanhela (s. 1962) käsittelee aihetta genretietoisesti mutta pelkäämättä.
  Hän on luonut mieshahmon, jota voisi tulkita ironisena suhteessa perinteeseen.

  Se ei ole kuitenkaan tarpeellista. Hahmossa on tarpeeksi tartuntapintaa, jotta se
  pärjää ilman ironian tarjoamaa takaporttia.

  Mies pukeutuu maripaitaan, runkkaa ja ryyppää. Aamut eivät ole helppoja, mutta    
  eivät taida olla illatkaan.

  Nainen on läsnä kuvitteellisena kumppanina, mutta kovin tasa-arvoista suhdetta 
  fantasiahahmoon ei synny.
  Naista kannetaan kuin    persettä. Enemmän kuin halusta esineellistää lienee kyse
 puhtaasta puutteesta.

  Hanhelan näyttely TM-galleriassa on melkein sarjakuvallinen kokemus.

  Maalaukset ovat ruutuja elämästä. Ne ovat välillä raivokkaita, välillä seesteisiä,
 mutta toisiinsa linkittyviä.

  Hanhela käyttää akvarelli-, akryylimaali- ja öljyväritekniikoita sulassa sovussa.
  Maalausjälki on välitöntä ja tukee kuvien    kerronnallisuutta.

  Raidallinen maripaita pukee miestä useammassa teoksessa.

  Se on hauska hahmoa identifioiva oivallus ja maalauksellisesti herkullinen
  yksityiskohta.

  Tosin siitä johtuen minun on vaikea enää lukea Rosa Liksomia ilman, että kuvittelen
  kirjojen sankareille maripaidat.