Exhibitions

In Painsi’s work words and letters are totally abstract and reduced to mere geometrical forms and lines, freed from their semantic meaning. Like in many Basquiat paintings the stiching motive has a prominent part but is carried out by Painsi physically: he cuts the painted/sprayed textiles and stiches them haphazardly with thread and needle into new arrangements. In the series “As a matter of principle” Painsi went into fundamentals both in form and content. The pieces are executed solely in spray and hand-sewn into collages. In terms of color he chose to stay within red, blue, yellow and white: the primary elements and origins of all colors. The words he used reflect his preoccupation with core issues and notions that are relevant and determining for contemporary society: xenophobia, generation, adventure, presidency. Like the words in these paintings, core principles of society are at a cross-road and are being globally deconstructed and redefined – Painsi’s work reflects this mindset- reshaping. Both the work and the narrative within it exist in a liminal space, between abstract and figurative.