The name of the exhibition, Parsimus Maximus, is a combination of Finnish and Latin and it refers to human life as a great repair (‘parsinta’ in Finnish), an attempt to put together something that was once broken. The large paintings Infantia, Mirabundus and Mortalis together present the themes that repeat throughout the exhibition: childhood, wonder, and disappearance.
Tarmo Paunu (b. 1971) is a painter from Helsinki who grew up in a family of artists in Suomenlinna. Paunu currently lives and works in Pispala, Tampere. Paunu graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in the department of painting in 2008. He has had solo exhibitions in Finland, Germany and Sweden as well as joint exhibitions in Finland, the Baltic countries, Norway, Cyprus and Bratislava, Slovakia. The most important of those have been e.g. Artist of the Year exhibition titled Rakkaudesta (Taidehalli, Helsinki, 2013), solo exhibition God Is A Woman (Kunstihoone, Tallinn, 2014), solo exhibition in Sweden (Galleri21, Malmö, 2007) and Oh My God! -joint exhibition in Norway (Konstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, 2007). Paunu’s works are in several Finnish public and private collections as well as in public spaces.
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