Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Art questions April 2020


Are you making a living with your art?

No. I'm in the middle of a training period and I'm one of those people who still have to work during this crisis.

It has always been clear to me that I'm going to focus on the creative side. I want my images and music to have a life of their own. My life is too short.

Love, spirit, atmosphere, creativity and uncertainty are all connected. The spirit of protest reveals what you care about. The more we accept stupid things the worse things will get.

I haven't heard much classical. Where should I begin?

Start listening to different composers from different periods. That's how you do it. It's discovery.

Forget stupid cliches, trust your intuition and get out of the way of the experience. You're doing it for yourself. No one else.

It's the way to go if you love powerful music. Classical and folk music are the opposite of throwaway and single-use.

Lepakko - Bat


Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2020.

Saturday, March 28, 2020

Hullujenhuone - Madhouse


Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2020.

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

My first film and soundtrack were released one year ago


Forming Moons (2019) is an expressionistic silent film about a painting monk.

Writing, direction, filming, production, performance, design, artwork, music and soundtrack by Tero Rinta-Perälä.

Forming Moons

Making of Forming Moons


Monday, March 23, 2020

Art Quotes - Rage Edition


"To hell with culture, culture as a thing added like a sauce to otherwise unpalatable stale fish!"
Eric Gill (1882-1940)

from Herbert Read's "To Hell with Culture", Routledge 2002

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"It used to be that painters were mad and picture-buyers clever.
Now the painters are clever and the picture-buyers mad."
Giorgio de Chirico

"Freedom is not given. It must be taken."
Meret Oppenheim

from "Surrealism", Taschen 2011

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"There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood."
W. Somerset Maugham

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"All the fair and noble impulses of humanity, the dreams of poets and the agonies of martyrs, are shackled and bound in the service of organized and predatory Greed!"
Upton Sinclair

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Rutto - Plague


Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2020.

Monday, March 9, 2020

Insomnious Field - out April 10, 2020


My new album releases April 10, 2020.

Classical - brass and strings

1. Auroredie
2. Insomnious Field
3. Taurmina
4. Endless Impersonations
5. Liquid Landscape
6. Not All Is Horror

Sunday, March 8, 2020

Polku - Path


Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2020.

Saturday, March 7, 2020

2 new tracks from my 10th album

Auroredie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFhhBRVK5TQ


Not All Is Horror
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bhPluHR89k

From "Insomnious Field", out in 2020.

Classical - brass and strings

PLAY LOUD.

Friday, March 6, 2020

Art questions March 2020


Who are your biggest influences?

Hard to say. I've always been drawn to symbolism, surrealism and expressionism.

My favourite artists are listed here:
https://saapasnahkatorni.blogspot.com/2018/04/15-great-artists.html

I think my biggest influences are curiosity and genes. I admire artists who have their own voice and make use of their own genes.

I use my own experiences in my art but I do it in the form of ideas.

Do you have a work routine?

No. I'm making notes, feeding my subconscious and doing things in bursts. Developing ideas can take a long time but I wouldn't call the final discovery a conscious plan. More like a flash.

What kind of feedback have you received?

Mainly positive. One art teacher said I should use more solid simplicity. I agreed.

I associate substantial criticism with saying something meaningful and asking the right questions. It may take some time. I sometimes get frustrated when people feel like they have to pass judgement immediately.

In order to take something in as a pure experience, you have to get out of its way and let it do its thing. You can't just focus on your own presence.

Monday, March 2, 2020

Nunna - Nun


Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2020.