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Harri Puro’s expressive paintings constantly move around in the middle ground between figurative and abstract. Sometimes, the figures fragment into unrecognizable shapes, sometimes, they are easier to recognize, when the painter intuitively adds new elements in place of the old. The end result is a consequence of the mutual friction between these two modes of representation.

Mirroring the artist’s production of recent years, the new works on display lean more to the figurative side, and the depiction of figures has been elevated to the main role. Some of the figures in the paintings are of …