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Magi Viljanen
s. 12.9.1962
+358 50 446
E-mail
www.tahtikuviot.fi
CV Magi Viljanen
St. Petersburg 5th, 1997
Photograph with silver gelatin coating
80 x 110 cm
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African Madonna, 2005
Digitally printed picture
80 x 180 cm
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Suurenna kuva
klikkaamalla! |
Devi's birthmark, 2004
2 Colourprinted background images
2 front pictures dumped on glass
60 x 90 cm |
Fairy called Alice, 1995
Photograph dumped on flag stone with liquid emulsion coating
40 x 80 cm |
Woman from Kutch, 1996
Chromagenic colourproof
80 x 180 cm |
Artist and photographer Magi Viljanen has created a long and respective career as an art and commercial photographer.
Her photography original and stand out from the mainstream in a refreshing way. As a photographer Viljanen is
unprejudiced and has chosen challenging themes many times during her career. Bravely she has tried different methods and materials in her works.
"I think art is meant to move something in a person, and at its best art affects those things that people may have become numb to. I don't see myself as a
subjective artist but as a part of something common, and that is way I work.
I am a documentary photographer and I think that art that makes a statement is important."
The work of Magi Viljanen is easy to approach and touching
in its way to show the truth and representation of life. All the viewers can integrate with some
aspect in her pictures. Her works brings the reality of others
in front of us allowing us to see true stories from this world.
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