Maija Ylä-Sahra's oil paintings and photography related to the city of Cortona

Maija Ylä-Sahra is a painter from Espoo with a great passion for Italian culture. Her works has been shown in galleries through Finland, Brazil and Italy.

Her last exhibition was organized in september-october 2009 in Cortona, Italy, as part of the fifth edition of art collective Donnarte. The exhibition took place in the historical Fortress of the Girifalco.

As the art critic and curator of Centro d’Arte Minerva (Perugia) Luciano Lepri wrote about the artist: “ Thanks to her personal style, Maija Ylä-Sahra gives us very original works, characterized by strong lines and vivid colours. Dream, imagination and creativity make a symbolic bridge joining ancient and modern worlds able to create an ambience of authentic and deep poetry.”

Ylä-Sahra created two oil paintings for the upcoming Caffelatte: Two Cappucinos and Coffee Cups. Apart her paintings, some photos from her last visit in Cortona will be also shown in Espoonsilta.


>>> Maija Ylä-Sahra's paintings and photos exhibited 1.-7.3.2010

Bizzare city views through the lens of Emiliano Verrocchio

"I have always been living in big cities and therefore think that I miss the ”countryside feeling” of simple things. Everything I see around city centres is somehow full of nothing-and-something at the same time, and so I try to catch both aspects with photos. The strange relation between these apparently dead objects and people is puzzling me. Unnatural things are made by humans and so they tell me quite a lot about their producers."


>>> Emiliano Verrocchio's photos exhibited 8.-14.3.2010