Juha Sääski
Basic information
b. 1952, Helsinki
Visual Artist
Residence: Åminnefors
Contact information
Email: juha.saaski.7@gmail.com
Artist’s Statement
A common feature of my works dealing with relationships between an individual, the society and the main culture is the paradoxal nature of human life, a paradox in the powerstructures of individual and social demands. Tragicomicality is often the basic setting. According to Charlie Chaplin: "Life is tragic in the close up but comedy from the distance". Through satire and relating naivety and simplification as a part of the whole picture I try to avoid being too solemn. Also using those alienating elements I try to make the viewer think how the matter is linked with reality. With serious issues I bring together joyful and humorous elements as an expression of the complexity of life.
Current information
Forthcoming solo shows:-Tampere 2023, "The past, the present, the future", 18.11. - 18.12., photograph collages and photographs, Photograph Center/Gallery Nykyaika
-Berlin 2024, "The COVID_paintings", 27.4.-25.5. Galerie/Projektraum TOOLBOX
Group exhibitions:
Berlin 2023, "The wound",Drawings from Iran and Finland, 30.9.-21.10. Galerie/Projektraum TOOLBOX
More information:
homepage: www.juha-saaski.fi