I have no idea how Stock Artist functions, maybe it's some stupid art project about the art market, but it seems to have something to do with the Artfacts ranking. Compared to the crashing real equity market (neither I have  idea what it is or how it works), my value seems to be fine.

RIIKO SAKKINEN ART MARKET VALUE PROFILE

Internet recognition index:     0.425
Art critic recognition index:   0.086
Primary market index:            5.419
Secundary market index:        0.000
Artstocks launch price:          2.71
Artstocks actual price:          6.93
Artstocks higher price:          21.25
Artstocks lower price:            2.71

I think there's too much art about art, artists, art world and and art market. Damien Hirst once said that art is about life and the art world is about money. It would be easy to agree but I think that the millionaire artist forgot that the most of the people worry about the money (they don't have) every day. So I would be even more populist and put it this way: Life is about money and the art world is bullshit.

Time Out Chicago's Amy Schroeder writes in her review of From the Arctic to the Prairie group show at Golden:

Riiko Sakkinen lists the Names of Prostitutes in Madrid in one of 20 works on paper. The Finnish-born artist displays the most provocative work in this exhibition, subtitled “New Art from Finland & Chicago.” Sakkinen’s lists (including My Favorite Banks) grab viewers’ attention, but his depictions of consumerist icons hoisting twisted political slogans are even more striking. He makes the Pillsbury Doughboy the poster child for “Fat Supreme: Lard Is Christian,” and personifies ramen as a “Fish Ball Gun”–toting hero in Curry Flavor Cup Noodle Wars. While dissecting the perky-yet-disturbing tactics of pop marketing isn’t new, Sakkinen distinguishes himself by educating viewers about cultural symbols from Korea to Cuba to London.

I had almost given up with the Spanish art world. I thought that it was nearly impossible to have any presence or success here because I'm an immigrant living in the countryside. Suddenly, everything changed.

Rafa and Tania of Musac, the most dynamic museum of contemporary art in Spain located in León, discovered my work and decided to give me powerful backing. I'm in a small show in Musac in April and give an artist talk there too. And even more importantly, they told about my work to Topacio Fresh who is opening her La Fresh Gallery in December in Madrid.

I make realistic art and the reality where I live and work is Spain. Obviously, I want to show my stuff in Spain, too. I'm going to be finally an integrated and domesticated immigrant.

Some people begin to read the newspaper from behind or from the sport pages. I read first the prostitutions ads. Actually, it’s enough to read only them. It's easy to interpret from them the most important events. When the blow job prices go down, you know – before the politicians admit anything - that economy is entering to a recession. When the half of the male prostitutes are named Adrei, you know that Andrei Arshavin is the star player that will be bought soon by Real Madrid.

A couple of years ago, all Asian prostitutes were advertised as Japanese geishas. There are still many Naoko’s from Osaka but recently many Chinese are told to be Chinese. This tells clearly that China is now more respected as a culture and a nation. Still the Chinese girls don’t have any names but I think it’s question of months when there will be Xiu Meis, Huas and Yins in El País "Relax" section.

My latest work - which is made in USA -is a real and full Heinz Tomato Ketchup bottle, where the word tomato ketchup has been replaced with the word Mustard Gas. The surprising thing is that I ordered the 10 custom bottles directly from Heinz.

The great American artist Paul MacCarthy has used lots of Heinz Tomato Ketchup along with other foodstuffs in his performances, videos and installations, where they represent different bodily fluids. When I was a kid I used ketchup as fake blood and mustard prepared by mother as fake mustard gas. Later in my practice I've combined frequently food and weapons.

Mustard gas is a vesicant chemical warfare agent with the ability to form large blisters on exposed skin. It is yellow-brown in color and have an odor resembling mustard. Mustard gas was first used effectively in World War I by the German army against British soldiers. The United States has mustard gas stockpiles, located in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Indiana, Kentucky, Oregon and Utah.

Heinz Tomato Ketchup is the best selling condiment in the United States.