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Socialism With Cypriot Characters - Turkish Republic Of Northern Cyprus

SOCIALISM WITH CYPRIOT CHARACTERS

29 January 2009, Nicosia

I'm in Nicosia, Cyprus, participating in a seminar with some cultural bureaucrats around Europe. I'm not getting yet what they are saying or why we are here but as a principle I'm questioning everything and I'm against anything. I suppose that's why Patrice invited me to participate.

Cyprus is one of the only three countries in the world to have currently a democratically elected communist government (the others being Moldova and Nepal) and I think that the communism really works here because people seem to be wealthy and happy. I like the communism where everybody drives a BMW.

The northern part of Nicosia and Cyprus are occupied by the Turkish Army since 1974. I passed the border to the there and found it poor and miserable. They have a capitalist system and I think it's causing the wretchedness. And I didn't see any luxury vehicles there. Achilleas said that the Turksih Army even hosts Colombian narcotraffickers. It'seasy to prefer the Greek side ruled by the communists





Partido Neoliberal EspaŅol - Partido Neoliberal EspaŅol

PARTIDO NEOLIBERAL ESPAŅOL

26 January 2009, Cervera de los Montes

A couple of months ago, Tania invited me to participate in a show at Musac. It seemed to be heavily curated: the artists were asked to design posters that are going to be handed out in exhibition in April. But I didn't mind about the limits, I'd have done anything to be in my first museum show in Spain! Tania said that I had the total freedom and she didn't want to know anything before having the piece made.

I decided to do a realistic poster, nothing like art. I invented a political party Partido Neoliberal Español (PNE= pene= penis) and it's anti crisis campaign Respetando los derechos humanos nunca saldremos de la crisis, respecting the human rights we are never going to get out of the crisis. I asked Ana to design the poster and she was happy to trade it to my Hello Kitty Pop Tart drawing. Maybe it was a difficult task to make bad design - I didn't want anything stylish but realistic - but the result is exactly what I wanted.

Tania was astonished with the result, she had expected a beautiful blown up drawing and found out that I had done something anti-aesthetic. After a while, she seemed to realize that I had done an important piece. In the museum it's clear that it's art but when people take it with them (for free) out of the museum, it becomes a disturbing item - as sinister as some hidden agendas of real political parties.





Orthodontic Celebrity Economy - Dental Braces

ORTHODONTIC CELEBRITY ECONOMY

22 January 2009, Cervera de los Montes

Korjaamo, where I have my solo show in March, sent here the hot photographer Pekka Niityvirta to take photos of me for their marketing. My first thought was that it makes no sense to fly over a photographer from Finland, the carbon footprint is giant for few pictures. Finally, I forgot my green thinking and felt flattered for the celebrity treating. Pekka installed his portable studio lights between the rocks outside of the village. I think the results are going to look cool, though I don't get the connection between my art and the nature. Maybe he just wanted to make me look heroic and zealous.

I told Pekka that the photo can't show my teeth. I hate my teeth, they are yellow and messy I've got a budget for the orthodontic treatment and it's several thousands. If I sell some paintings from Korjaamo, I'll get my braces. Then I could begin to smile and that would change my whole character. Once I heard, that a diplomat said that he knows the economic level of a country just by looking how the people have their teeth andhow much paint the asphalt on the roads have. I've got lot of paint but my teeth always and reveal my economy.





Kosmostars - Kosmostars

KOSMOSTARS

18 January 2009, Cervera de los Montes

My best friend Jani says that something is seriously wrong if a painting needs more than 45 minutes working. I've been painting the 10 painting of my show at Korjaamo,Helsinki, since the May 2006. Yesterday, I completed Kosmostars, the painting that gives the title also to the exhibition. Kosmostars is a patriot style breakfast cereal sold in Russia but produced by the multi-national Nestlé headquartered in Switzerland.

Now I have to finish fast the last painting of the series, My Favorite Banks, which is a list of the biggest banks in the world. I wanted to leave it last in the series because these days any bank can go bankrupt at any given moment. It should be good to go on Wednesday when Korjaamo sends a hot photographer from Helsinki to take photos of me and the paintings. It's a kind of cool but the carbon footprint is huge for few pictures. Unfortunately, in the art world we don't think too much ecological things.

Jani paints in 45 minutes but Vladimir Putin needed only aquarter of an hour to execute the painting that was sold yesterday in a charity auction for a million dollars.





The Manifesto Of The Free World - The Leader-elect Of The Free World

THE MANIFESTO OF THE FREE WORLD

13 January 2009, Cervera de los Montes

We are writing a manifesto for the catalog of the exhibition Jani and Riiko's Free World. I think it's going to be something like this:

The Free World is the world of the free market economy. The United States is the freest country and its president is the Leader of the Free World. The allies of the United States are free countries. All countries that are not free, are enemies of the free countries. The duty of the free countries is to export freedom everywhere and without avoiding military power. All the people of the world have a right to live in the Free World and enjoy of the free market economy and capitalism.







Riiko
Sakkinen
 

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