Kalle Hellzen 'Into Light' Print Available

Artist: Kalle Hellzen
Title: Into Light
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 67 x 100 cm
Edition: UNSURE
Price: $554

 

Kalle Hellzén is a Swedish-Finnish multidisciplinary artist who discovered painting only in his forties after a globe-spanning career as a creative director. Trained in design, digital innovation and film. When he finally picked up a brush, he merged that advertising rigour with raw autobiography, producing works he describes as “melancholy dipped in sunshine”. Hellzén’s process is hybrid: he first paints oil or acrylic “Generation 0” canvases solitary figures suspended in bright, empty spaces then feeds these images into generative AI, allowing algorithms to recombine colour fields and body postures into new iterations that still carry his personal palette and themes.

Diagnosed with colour blindness, he treats the limitation as a creative filter, building high-chroma gradients that feel vivid to every viewer. The finished pieces, whether printed on aluminium or repainted by hand, depict anonymous characters caught mid fall, mid thought or mid life, their isolation amplified by candy like pinks and acid greens that suggest both nostalgia and digital overload.

Exhibitions from Amsterdam to Seoul have sold out, while Instagram reels chronicle his iterative workflow traditional stretcher bars beside glowing iPad sketches underscoring his belief that “the future of painting is conversation, not replacement”.