Unfolds, Plandrawings

Harri Monni's paintings question our perceptions of the three-dimensional. His work on the themes "Unfolds" and "plandraw-ings" explores the interaction of the three-dimensional space with it's twodimensional representation, thereby analysing ways of translating space into flatness.
On his series "Unfolds" the artist says: I have been working with cardboard boxes as a sort of ready-mades. When I open up and unfold the boxes, I reveal new and more ambiguous architectural shapes which I then use to construct my paintings. The folded out cardboard boxes interact within a colourful and expressive field of paint, which is sometimes thin and transparent; at other times thick powerful and in successively superimposed layers. Only an empty space is left to mark the presence of an object.This gives the spectator an ambiguous impression of interchangeable back- and fore-gro-unds, of precence and disappearence.
In certain works the eye is confronting three-dimensional forms through the apparent representation of a plan, but does it beeing sufficiently vague to engender difficulties visualising the volyme to which it refers. Other intensely occupied works suggests a resemblance with strange architectural plans of cathedrals or classical buildings. This same guestioning of spatial translation takes place in his series"Plandrawings". An irregular grid of line drawings covers the surface of the painting.
It appears to the viewer as some kind of strange interacting fragments of urban plans, emerging or disappearing behind the layers of monochromatic paint.The surface of the canvas shimmering through gives a peculiar informal mood to the work.