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Roland Persson’s solo show ”The Composition” opens in June in Turku Art Museum’s Studio. The exhibition runs from June 6 until September 14, 2025.

Roland Persson (b. 1963, lives and works in Stockholm) is known for his impressive silicone sculptures, which he casts in moulds made from real objects. The combination of coloured silicone paste and casting is at once sculptural and painterly, rendering the details of the work stunningly illusory.

Brutally beautiful and moving, ”The Composition” is a collection of new works from this year that speak to the fragility and vulnerability of life. The world they create balances between death, transience, nurture and care, opening up, like a vanitas, to different interpretations of the fundamental questions of our existence. While the music has ended and silence remains, someone has placed a lace cloth on the table and given a sprig of walnut some water.

The surrealist and enigmatic nature of Persson’s work is partly explained by his interest in dreams and psychoanalysis. His symbolically charged works often contain some deliberate imperfection, damage and undefined melancholy that makes the viewer feel compassion for them.

In addition to the exhibition "The Composition", Roland Persson’s sculpture ”Hope and Glory” (2016) is on display in the exhibition What (A) Colour. The work belongs to the Turku Art Museum collection. 

Read more about the exhibition here 

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Roland Persson in his studio. Photo: Sofia Olander.