In his paintings Juha Sääski is sketching a portrait of the spirit of time. The life of humans in the Western World can be depicted as increasingly estranged and suffering from the structural violence of society and market economy. The prospering entertainment- and porn-like main culture is working as a smoke-screen in reality-meeting situations. This enstragement is supported by the world-view of the political and economical power which is spread by the media.
The basic emotional setting in Juha Sääski´s works is often the tragicomic and paradoxal nature of human life. Sääski shows his perceptions by alienation, humor, satire and parody. He is contrasting naïve and simplifying statements, cliches, happy or optimistic things, modern aesthetics, street art and figures of popular culture with serious and sad subject matters. Symphathy and hope are Sääski´s driving forces.
By combining tragicomic and conflicting elements Juha Sääski is constructing entities, where even absurd associations do not alienate us from meeting reality, but might open new perspectives and show the true nature of subjects and phenomena more clealry and purely.
Juha Sääski is a Finnish visual artist, who, apart from his work in Finland, has participated in many group and solo exhibitions throughout Europe. His recent shows were predominantly in Germany, as for instance the Finnish contemporary exhibition ”Memory Traces” in Ludwig-Museum in Koblenz, and Berlin. Further, he was seen in group exhibitions in Munich and Berlin, in solo shows in Ulm and Nuremberg and now in Galerie TOOLBOX in Berlin. C
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More information: Registry of Finnish Artists — Kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli