Once again, I'm packing my aluminum Rimowa suitcase for Helsinki. Tomorrow I'm sleeping in my other home - Hotel Klaus K in Bulevardi. Before that I have still time for a family Easter lunch, play with my daughter and enjoy of the Spanish sun before flying to the North Pole.

The operation is called Trickle-down Theory - it's a group show that I'm curating at Korjaamo. Trickle-down theory is a right-wing political term that refers to the policy of providing tax cuts to rich individuals in the belief that this will eventually benefit the larger population.

My co-curators are Aura and Judas, who arrives to Helsinki from Beijing few hours before me, I've asked Jani to borrow Aki's golden Mercedes Benz and pick up Judas at the airport and take him to our head quarters, Klaus K.

The provisional artist list:

Ana Albuixech, Petri Ala-Maunus, Hanna Maria Anttila, Judas Arrieta, Sezgin Boynik, Simo Brotherus, Anthony Burnham, Rita Castro Neves, Gokce Celikel, Mo C. Chan, Jackie Chen, Chen Fei, Luo Hui, Soyeon Cho, Thomas Chow, Michael Chuah, Daisy Delaney, Democracia, Suzanne Dery, Desert Planet, Siu Ding, Fahd El Jaoudi, Filter017, Forever Tarkovsky Club, Jiri Geller, Graphicairlines, Kalle Hamm, Kea, Erika Harrsch, Hannaleena Heiska, Minna L. Henriksson, PhalanX Studio, Sami Hyrskylahti, Mikko Ijäs, Herman van Ingelgem, Jian, Chen Jie, Fermin Jimenez Landa, Yang Jing, Shen Jingdong, Dzamil Kamanger, Eemil Karila, Kaoru Katayama, Kea, Teemu Kivikangas, Zenita Komad, Heta Kuchka, Kalle Lampela, Honcheung Lee, Niina Lehtonen-Braun, Jani Leinonen, Ling Ling Ling, Liisa Lounila, Oscar Martinez, Ramon Mateos, Jacob Meehan, Mika Minetti, Rauha Mäkilä, Shunsuke Francois Nanjo, Julia Nekrasova, Erkka Nissinen, Hanna Ojamo, Pilar Pinchart, Panu Puolakka, Aurora Reinhard, Alex Rich, Angelica Rodriguez, Carlos Rodriguez-Mendez, Jaakko Rustanius, Adam Saks, Gregor Samsa, Carrie Schneider, Philippe Servent, Jari Silomäki, Kim Simonsson, Sauli Sirviö, Federico Solmi, Cecilia Stenbom, Sari Tervaniemi, Tobby HK, Katja Tukiainen, Juanjo Valencia, Erika Verzutti, Pilar Villela, Cowper Wang, Toto Wang, Kenny Wong, Gudrun F. Widlok, Raphael Woo, Nod Young, Anne Zhe, Markus Astrom.

I've done enough art about politics and prostitution for a while. No more Molotov cocktails. Next week I go to Helsinki to curate Trickle-down Theory - an exhibition about the collapse of capitalism - and then I've said everything I have to say about the politics. I want to do drawings about love. Like love songs. Oh yeah, I'll tell you something, I'll think you understand, When I say that something, I want to hold your hand, I want to hold your hand.

Jani and me are accused of being too much in media: too many interviews and too many talk shows. I don't understand what is the problem. Why pop musicians can give hundreds of interviews and still be respected song writers? Why an artits who does a couple of talk shows is not anymore a serious artist? Before nobody bought my art because I wasn't famous and now they don't buy it because I'm too famous.

I went to see today the amazing Francis Bacon show at Museo del Prado in Madrid. I think Francis Bacon was a serious artist. I was slightly disappointed because the exhibtion was in the new part of the pinacotheca and wasn't really juxtaposed with the Goyas. In any case the best thing in Madrid was Adhoc - a small shop in Lope de Vega that sells clothes, accesories and drawings. I bought three great drawings by Clara Ruiz Tuñon, 15 euros each. I think that she's a serious artist, too.

The parties were over but I stayed in Helsinki until Wednesday teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts. On Tuesday, a critic in Helsingin Sanomat newspaper accused Jani and me of child pornography in our show at Amos Anderson Art Museum. It wasn't enough to hate us and our show but he decided to make us criminals too.

I arrived home on Wednesday night but on Thursday morning I had to travel to León for the inauguration of Un NO por Respuesta, a poster show at Musac curated by Tania. The exhibition includes my poster Respetando los Derechos Humanos Nunca Saldremos de la Crisis. I feel like living a life of a succesful artist but still I don't see any money. I thought that money and fame were a matrimony but it seems that I was wrong.

Anyways, the most important thing to mention is what I saw when I was passing via Madrid on my way to León. Rirkrit Tiravanija, the hero of the relational aesthetics and an artist I've respesceted highly, had built a replica of his house in Galería Salvador Día. The house was rather empty but in one space there was a Saab 9-3 Convertible. I asked a girl at the desk about the car and she told me that it's like the garage of Tiravanija's house and that this great idea was conceived by the sponsor. Regrettably, this wasn't enough but at the entrance there were Saab's leaflets and a box where you could leave your telephone number to set up a test drive.

It has been an amazing week - a  taste of glory and fame in Helsinki. On Tuesday, we moved to Hotel Klaus K, where Mark has hosted us smoothly. In the morning, we gave the last orders to the workers at Amos Anderson Art Museum and cabbed to Kuurna where Frame's Marketta gave a dinner for Musac's Tania. We ended up singing Robbie Williams in a shabby karaoke bar. After all these interviews in newspapers and on TV it's funny to be out there when people come to tell me their love and hate. For some reason the loathe hurts more than the amor ever can embrace.

Wednesday was the big day. We held the press conference of Jani and Riiko's Free Worls in Klaus K's Envy Suite. We sat under the screen that displayed German hard core porn. Our pretty assistant Riikka served gin and tonics for the 40 journalists listening us to talk about our (neolibe)realist art. The opening party was huge and and after that we had a fancy dinner at Ilmatar. This week, I've been drinking more Angel Dust champagne than water (and the water has been exclusively Veen Velvet).

On Thursday, it was Kiasma's press conference and opening. Then we filled a minibus with friends and headed to Maria's live talk show. That moment everything was crystal clear: Jani is the most loved artist in Finland and I'm the most hated artist in this country.

Today, I moved back to my mother's place and now I watch the snow falling and review all the TV programs where I've been during the week. Sometimes I'm not sure I understand this role I've been given. Maybe I want to go back home to Cervera de los Montes and be a full-time cowboy.

Manifesto of the Free World

The world of free market economy is a Free World. Nations without a capitalist economic system are not free and are thus enemies of free nations. It is the responsibility of all free nations to spread freedom by any means necessary. The people of the world have a right to live in a Free World and benefit from the free market economy and the happiness and wealth that Capitalism provides.

Jani Leinonen and Riiko Sakkinen want to shake the audience with the glory of the Free World. In the exhibition the artists pay homage to neoliberal economic policies, globalization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

The Free World is an exhibition that tackles – according to the artists – the financial crisis currently shaking the world,  by proposing remedies such as tax cuts, shifting production to Vietnam, cuts in worker rights and wages, redundancies, restricting human rights, and eliminating social benefits, as well as privatizing all state-owned enterprises.

The exhibition contains images unsuitable for minors.