{"id":1149,"date":"2026-03-27T14:33:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/jukka-rusanen\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T15:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:37:30","slug":"jukka-rusanen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/en\/jukka-rusanen\/","title":{"rendered":"Jukka RUSANEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;90px&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1716047634881{margin-right: 20px !important;margin-left: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1084&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;fadeIn&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;fadeInUp&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1>Jukka RUSANEN, Finland<\/h1>\n<h2>\u00ab Virginia \u00bb, 2025,<\/h2>\n<p>150 x 100 cm, Oil on canvas<\/p>\n<p>LOOKING FOR THE CORE<br \/>\nWhen I think about what Europe is like today, my mind is filled with sadness, confusion and frustration. The Europe I was born into and grew up in seems to have disappeared. The values and structures on which I felt our common values were based seem to be fading. Selfishness, greed and short-sightedness have emerged. Being an artist and a human being has become more uncertain, and collective thinking has become fragmented. In my search for a portrait of Europe, my gaze turns to history and tradition. My aim has been to find a European core that embodies the values that I see as supporting the soul of our continent. I see free thinking and especially the thinkers who have strengthened it as such a force. From my point of view, the most important influences in recent history are the French writer and film director Marguerite Duras, also the French Simone Veil, who was a politician, and the English writer Virginia Woolf. All these people are united by thinking that went against the current and that built and expanded the foundations of thinking. We can turn to these foundations and take support when our own and our shared world is shaking. Their legacy serves as a reminder that an individual&#8217;s work and thinking play a role in building a better world together. The reason why Virginia Woolf ended up in my work is partly personal. Woolf&#8217;s work a Room of One`s Own once awakened me to see how the world was built on men&#8217;s terms and needs. 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