Riiko Sakkinen | Blog

THE MISSION OF ART

21 May 2013 23:08:00 +0000

21 May 2013, Cervera de los Montes

Jani and me have been working for the whole winter with Homelessness Fair which will be inaugurated next month at Hyvinkää Art Museum, [...]

A TRAVELING SALESMAN SURPRISE IN A MUSEUM

16 May 2013 21:07:00 +0000

16 May 2013, Cervera de los Montes

A friend of mine visited the Aine Art Museum in Tornio, a small town in the Finnish Lapland, and sent me a photo [...]

MODERNIST SOUL

12 May 2013 23:43:00 +0000

12 May 2013, Cervera de los Montes

I've been painting red, dreaming red and eating tomato sauce and strawberry smoothies for several weeks. Now all the 57 the monochromes have [...]

BLANK PAPER AND PAPER MONEY

07 May 2013 10:49:00 +0000

07 May 2013, Cervera de los Montes

When I finish a drawing or a painting, I sign it on the verso. A visible signature on a work of art is [...]

RED FLAGS OR RED PAINTINGS

01 May 2013 12:23:00 +0000

01 May 2013, Cervera de los Montes

All other communists are today, International Workers' Day, in demonstrations against capitalism waving red flags and I'm in my studio painting red monochromes. [...]

A LETTER FROM DAMASCUS

25 Apr 2013 10:43:00 +0000

25 April 2013, Cervera de los Montes

Dear Riiko,

You asked about the life in Damascus. Obviously, there is pain and sadness on people’s faces. We feel tired and lost. Everyone [...]

WHITE MAN PANORAMA

22 Apr 2013 19:17:00 +0000

22 April 2013, Cervera de los Montes

Last fall, Tuomo and me, two Western European white male artists were drinking beer onboard M/S Superstar sailing from Helsinki to Tallinn, a [...]

SEEING RED AND PINOCCHIO IN MADRID

19 Apr 2013 11:46:00 +0000

19 April 2013, Cervera de los Montes

I bussed to Madrid to buy more red colors for my monochromatic painting series 57 Varieties. Now I see 59 different reds in [...]

DOUBLETHINKING OF NORTH KOREA

15 Apr 2013 10:30:00 +0000

15 April 2013, Cervera de los Montes

The propaganda of our Western governments on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea aimed at us, their citizens, is totally schizophrenic. We are [...]

HOW TO WASH CLOTHES

11 Apr 2013 10:44:00 +0000

11 April 2013, Cervera de los Montes

Laundry is important to my practice as artist. Daily homemaking activities combined with my studio work emphasize my attachment to everyday life, masses [...]

UNCONDITIONAL LOVE TOWARDS SLOVENE ART

06 Apr 2013 10:50:00 +0000

06 April 2013, Flight JP158 Ljubljana - Munich

I'm on my way back to home and reading the late Slovene curator Igor Zabel's interesting book Contemporary Art Theory (don't be frightened [...]

DISSIDENT DINNER

03 Apr 2013 10:25:00 +0000

03 April 2013, Ljubljana

Early in the morning, the embassy of Finland phoned disturbed to Jernej. Finally, they had found out that they are dealing with a [...]