RIIKO SAKKINEN – TURBOREALIST ZOOLOGY
2021-02-01This year Riiko Sakkinen celebrates the 25th anniversary of the beginning of his artistic career. He held his first exhibition in February 1996 at the Jangva gallery. Sakkinen has kept a scrapbook copy of his first review, which was published in the paper Helsingin Sanomat. The review includes a quote from the artist, in which he comments on his show with his inimitable brand of irony: “My exhibition is plastic. It is a dead toilet gel flower.” The critic Tiina Nyrhinen picks up from here: “Superficiality is [here] a virtue and eclecticism is a condition of survival. The artist’s list of the ‘good’ things in life says a great deal about him and the times we are living in.”
Opposite – Snake, 2019
Exhibition runs through to February 28th, 2021
Galerie Forsblom
Galerie Forsblom Yrjönkatu 22
00120 Helsinki
Finland
