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Viljami Heinonen’s new exhibition Ascend Above The Heights continues the bird-themed series which Heinonen started earlier, and thus links to the range of nature-themed works of recent years. The starting point of the exhibition is the colorful bird dioramas built by natural museums, allowing compositions and static events come to life and movement in the paintings through an expressive physical painting process. The historical, beautiful and natural science contents of the dioramas evoke thoughts about life and its fragility, such as movement, stagnation, the past and the present. The …