Petri Ala-Maunus

Visual artist Petri Ala-Maunus (b. 1970) has turned his paintings of cliché subjects — sunsets, landscapes, and selfies — into exhaustive conceptual investigations about the nature of art and the collective imagination. His landscape series takes the 19th-century German Romantic artists as a point of departure. Ala-Maunus’ work is included in the collections of Helsinki Art Museum, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, and Turku Art Museum.