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Fine Art Exhibitions


Naked Truth

In My Black-and-White Life

Artist at Work

Two Americas: Part II

God Is

Two Americas: Part I

More Joy of Jazz

Spell of Mountains

Joy of Jazz

Antonyms - Subjective Concepts Are Paradoxical

Anticipation

In My Black-and-White Life (I have never..)

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"..I can't get rid of computers, television, (dis)information overflow from internet and elsewhere. But I do get everything, including my basic needs (i.e., food), without leaving the house, never to have any face-to-face contact to any living creature. I am a prisoner of my own internal world, a hermit who can't stand the daylight nor a touch of a person."

My most recent exhibition In My Black-and-White Life (I have never..) is hard criticism to the modern society and provocation to the people getting passive and forgetting the real values of the life while being always too busy and not having any time to contemplate.

Just this moment, as I'm updating this page (Sept 23, 2008, 4 PM) I hear from the radio about a 20 year-old youngster having shot dead nine of his schoolmates here in Finland (in Kauhajoki), and more or less similar thing happened here also less than one year ago - I can't think of how cracy we people come when we seek visibility in the internet and our ration becomes distorted as we get excluded (or make ourselves excluded) from the society and build up our own (so to say, virtual) reality in our heads. Now, considering my exhibition motive, what seemed to be a highly exaggerated fantasy back then in 2005, seems now to become reality in its worst extent. My prophecy being correct makes me no joyful person, as I see my fellow Finns following the absurdity of other less peace loving nations.

The exhibited works (Part III & IV: to be annonced; Part II: a series of 16 large-sized prints (typ. 80 * 60 cm2, one canvas of size 112 * 145 cm2 w/o text) involve written text in English and Finnish/Swedish along with the images, dissonance between which has a great significance. With my graphically rather simple, warm toned and monochromatic photographs I wish to create in-depth and pleasant feelings on the viewer. This state of mind I then call into question by contradictory text, i.e., the names of the works play an essential role in the photography series. Even further, the English vs. Finnish/Swedish names carry different meanings, which enforces the viewer to ponder deeper my motives.

Are we victims of the society or exploiting egoists?


Works

I am afraid, you need to wait and come to the exhibitions to see my most recent works in Part III & IV. However, you can see the previous works from Part II (shown in Laterna Magica, September 5 – 23, 2006) by clicking here (or the image above), which opens a new window.


Technique

Except the newest works in Part III & IV, I have taken all the photographs with film cameras (135, 6*7 cm, 4*5" format) around the world during years 1996 – 2006 and scanned them at the highest resolution, oil-mounted. All prints are (digitally) hand-made using best-quality rag-paper and Ultrachrome-pigmented inks, which brings out the finest details in an esthetic form and guarantees the best life-span (over a century, glass-framed and protected from direct sunlight). The most recent ones I have taken with a professional digital camera (Canon EOS 40D) using different techniques.


Exhibition calender


Further information


Part IV: Southeast Photography Centrum - Kaakkois-Suomen Valokuvakeskus, Lappeenranta (Nov. 6 - 29, 2008) Part III: Gallery Zebra (Oct. 2 - 24, 2008)
  • Mustavalkoisessa elämässäni (en ole koskaan..). osa III, Lehdistötiedote, pdf (Press-release in Finnish).
  • I mitt svartvita liv (har jag aldrig..), del III, pressmeddelande, pdf (Press-release in Swedish).

  • List of Works / Teosluettelo / Verklistan in pdf (in English, Finnish/Swedish).

  • I mitt svartvita liv (har jag aldrig..), del III / Mustavalkoisessa elämässäni (en ole koskaan..). osa III, Inbjudningkort / kutsukortti (Invitation card in Swedish and Finnish), A6 size [PDF].

  • I mitt svartvita liv (har jag aldrig..), del III / Mustavalkoisessa elämässäni (en ole koskaan..). osa III, Posteri / Affisch (Poster in Swedish and Finnish), A3 size [PDF, low resolution, 80 kB ].

  • CV in pdf (in English).
  • CV pdf:nä (in Finnish).

  • NEW Dagstidning artikel om utställningen i Västra Nyland 11.10.2008 (Newspaper article in Swedish), PDF 0.4 MB.
  • NEW Lehtiartikkeli näyttelystä Etelä Uusimaassa 19.10.2008 (Newspaper article in Finnish), PDF 0.3 MB.

Part IIb (8 exhibited works selected from Part II): TKK Electrical building / Sodexho restaurant (Nov. 1, 2006 - Sept. 26., 2008) [invited] & Part II: Laterna Magica (Sept. 5 - 23, 2006)
  • In My Black-and-White Life (I have never been..), Press release, pdf.
  • Mustavalkoisessa elämässäni (en ole koskaan..), Lehdistötiedote, pdf (Press-release in Finnish).
  • I mitt svartvita liv (har jag aldrig..), pressmeddelande, pdf (Press-release in Swedish).

  • List of Works in pdf (in English, Finnish/Swedish).

  • CV in pdf (in English).
  • CV pdf:nä (in Finnish).

  • In My Black-and-White Life (I have never..) / Mustavalkoisessa elämässäni (en ole koskaan..), Kutsukortti / Invitation card in Finnish and English [PDF].

  • Mustavalkoisessa elämässäni (en ole koskaan..), Selvälukuinen posteri (Simplified poster in Finnish), A4 size [PDF, low resolution, 64 kB].

  • In My Black-and-White Life (I have never..) / Mustavalkoisessa elämässäni (en ole koskaan..), Poster / posteri(Poster in Finnish and English), A4 size [PDF, low resolution, 64 kB ].

  • In My Black-and-White Life (I have never..) / Mustavalkoisessa elämässäni (en ole koskaan..), Poster /posteri(Poster in Finnish and English), A4 size [PDF, high resolution 3.5 MB].

Part I: Wågermanska Konsthallen (Nov. 12 - Dec. 9, 2005) [invited] Sponsors / collaborators are sought actively for the valuable photojournalistic fine art undertaking. Naturally, a cooperation is built in which the parties interest do not collide, but complete/reinforce each other.