Hemmo Siponen
Hemmo Siponen (b.1991, Helsinki) is a Helsinki-based artist who works with watercolor painting. He is educated in Academy of Fine Arts Uniarts Helsinki (MFA), with a period of studies in Slade School of Art in London. Siponen has exhibited work at Schwarz Contemporary, Berlin (2022), and has had solo shows in Helsinki at HAM gallery (2020), gallery Sinne (2021), and tm-galleria (2023).
Hemmo Siponen’s paintings are a hybrid of staining and erasure.. He builds his watercolour paintings on canvases layer by layer as an emergence-inducing practice. His finished paintings are the stained remains of what is left after he rinses all loose paint off the surface of the canvas with water, in a somewhat controlled but in part a chaotic way.
Recently, he’s been intrigued by some aspects of preservation: stains in matter as traces of what has been, and patterns in nature as stains in evolutionary time – and their connection to painting.
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Atmospheric InterferenceHemmo Siponen, Atmospheric Interference, Watercolour on canvas, 60 cm x 55 cm ,2022. Photo: Hemmo Siponen.
At the Bottom of the SkyHemmo Siponen, At the Bottom of the Sky, Watercolour on canvas, 125 cm x 110 cm ,2024. Photo: Hemmo Siponen.
Twinkling StructureHemmo Siponen, Twinkling Structure, Watercolour on canvas, 125 cm x 110 cm ,2024. Photo: Hemmo Siponen.
Safety NetHemmo Siponen, Safety Net, Watercolour on canvas, 128 cm x 185 cm ,2021. Photo: Lotta Pasila.
Drying RoomHemmo Siponen, Drying Room, Watercolour on canvas, 42 cm x 60 cm ,2021. Photo: Lotta Pasila.
Saved but Meant to LoadHemmo Siponen, Saved but Meant to Load, Installation view at Sinne, 2021. Photo: Lotta Pasila.
BackupHemmo Siponen, Backup, Watercolour on canvas, 115 cm x 69 cm ,2021. Photo: Lotta Pasila.
Conserve IIIHemmo Siponen, Conserve III, Watercolour on canvas, 34 cm x 23 cm ,2021. Photo: Lotta Pasila.
CausersHemmo Siponen, Causers, Installation view at HAM-gallery, 2020. Photo: Sonja Hyytiäinen.
PostponerHemmo Siponen, Postponer, Watercolour on canvas, 93 cm x 65 cm ,2020. Photo: Sonja Hyytiäinen.
Dead RingerHemmo Siponen, Dead Ringer, Watercolour on canvas, 62 cm x 36 cm ,2020. Photo: Sonja Hyytiäinen.