by Eeva Kukkonen
Embroidery on cotton – 120x90cm
Eeva Kukkonen is a Finnish artist living and working in Trieste, Italy.
She studied painting and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna in 2009.
Throughout the years her main medium has shifted from painting to embroidery, although maintaining painting as well as drawing and intallations as an integral discipline in her artistic work.
The formal quality of the works focuses in a research on different embroidery techniques, such as black work and the reinterpretation and incorporation of those with traditional patterns and techniques of karelian embroidery coming from her own back ground.
Her interest lies in notions on female conditions through social,historical and cultural frame drawing inspiration from everyday life.
Kukkonen has held various personal and collective exhibitions in Italy, Romania, Germany, Finland, Bulgaria and Crotia.
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