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14.06.10. - Here is my first designs for the Finnish clothing brand Makia. These Tees are coming for sale in up coming fall. So if you wanna buy these awesome garments, and you don't live near enough of your local Makia retailer, you can order it straight from their webstore.
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25.05.10. - Finally I got some time to update my pages again. Here are the works of my latest exhibition A PICE OF SCHEMA. I did also some small changes here and there so hopefully everything works ok. If not, please info.
Some of the pictures shows the colors totally wrong in different displays. I'll try to fix it ASAP. Looks like it's calibration time :S
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15.04.10. - Helsingin Sanomat wrote a critique on my exhibition in yesterdays newspaper. You can read it here.
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05.04.10. - Thank's to all of you who came to the opening party last wednesday!
It was a real success!
The gallery will now be open every day 11.00
to 18.00
untill the 18th of April. Welcome!
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28.03.10. - As some of you may know, music means to me at least as much as my art. Here is a list of a few songs that I've been listening to many many times while working in the studio. These songs might have effected in a way or another the final result of the works in the exhibition A Piece of Schema.
A PIECE OF PLAYLIST
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14.03.10. - This is it!
My solo exhibition A Piece of Schema is almost here.
Welcome to the opening on Wednesday 31st of March at 17.00 – 20.00
Lönnrotinkatu 35, 00180 Helsinki
see it on map
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21.11.09. - Time flies, time flies... lot's of things have happend since the last post. For example, i've moved to my new and very own studio. It's in an old beautiful factory building in the port of Helsinki.
I'm now working very hard with my graduation work, so my life has been basicly just painting painting and writing writing.
The solo exhibition opening is in the end of march 2010 at the Gallery FAFA here in Helsinki. Works are gonna be mostly paintings and drawings on canvas and paper and i'm continuing where i left in the Kuvan Kevät degree exhibition last spring.
I'm also doing T-Shirt prints as a collaboration with the Finnish clothing brand Makia.
First three tees are coming to stores world wide in next years fall-winter collection, so keep your eyes open.
Untill next time,
Ta Taa
Sami
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05.7.09. - Summer greetings! 1 New painting added! It was exhibited in Juniutstillingen ONE HUNDRED YEARS in gallery Kunstnerforbundet in Oslo
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23.5.09. - 5 New works added! Four of them are in the degree exhibition, so if you are in town, you got still time to check them out! The address is:
Finnish Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Kasarminkatu 44, Helsinki
And thank's for all of you who came to the opening! <3
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08.05.09. - Upcoming wednesday it begins. The Degree Show of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. Welcome!
I'm also going to participate in the exhibiton Juniutstillingen ONE HUNDRED YEARS in gallery Kunstnerforbundet 13.7. - 3.8.09
So if you are hanging around in Oslo in that time, go and check it out.
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15.04.09. - It has been funny and nice to notice that my c-cassette pieces have started to live their own life here in the internet even though the work has been exhibited in 2006.
Now there is a small article about the work in Draw ltd. and you can read it from here. If you master Hungarian, there is another one in the style.ua
Here is also the sneakpeek picture from my studio that I promised last time. It´s small, but really nice and private with a big window giving a lot of light to the room. My degree works are going smoothly forward and I'm really excited about them, hopefully it will come across also in the works.
The Degree Show of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts will open in 14.05. and for the first time, the venue of the degree show will be the Academy’s main building (Taiteen talo) in Sörnäinen Helsinki. In addition, works will be shown in the Academy’s galleries at Kasarmikatu and Lönnrotinkatu as well as in various sites across the city. My works are shown in the gallery at Kasarminkatu.
For more info go to kuvankevat.fi
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22.11.08. - It's been a while since last post. I'm having my final year in the academy, so the school has been taken a lot of my time lately. Cause I'm working with my masterdiploma, there will be a lack of updates in the near future. Maybe some sketches and sneak peeks from my studio, but that's all folks.
Untill next time.
Sami
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11.09.08. - A great music blog AudioPorn Central made an interview about me and my works. You can read it by clicking the image below.
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17.07.08. - I made an album cover for my friends new mixtape
Riq Alpha & Double M Presents Climate Change Vol.1
You can download it for free from here
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11.06.08. - Here is couple of my recent works.
Actually the Pussyeyebrow is still in progress. I screwed it up with the background and for some reason at that moment, I thought that it's a good idea to cut it out of the paper(!?) Well, maybe I'll glue it on some board someday or forget it for good.
In The Adventures of the penetrator demon, I have continued with the same mehthods of working that I've been doing before with Inner idiot & Spasm. First I play with shapes and coincidences. After that, I take some kind of drawing instrument(usually ink & brush like in this one)
and start to draw things
that I see in the "chaos"
I also added a gifted young artist Jaakko Pallasvuo and my good friend Nina Kataila in to my inspiration links. Enjoy.
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22.05.08. - It's about time to say bye bye to my current studio in Pohjoinen Makasiinikatu. Our school is gonna move back to Kaikukatu, so the next studio will be there from the beginning of september. There was some good times and
not so good times, but definitelly i'm gonna miss that place.
New pics comig soon! Meanwhile check out new links: Bruno 9Li, King Trash & Zeloot
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19.04.08. - New album cover design added.
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18.02.08. - New updates! I made a small facelift to my page. I deleted few sections that i thought was pointless and added some new ones.
I also added few new works and links.
Enjoy
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09.01.08. - Here is the second cover for the Vanity Beach.
'Batcave' 7" vinyl
I´m performing live painting in Pori art museum 1.2.08. together with Kalle Nieminen and Janne Nytorp. If you are some where near, why not to come and check it out!
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15.12.07. - I made limited edition of bags and t-shirts. Only few sizes of S & XS shirts are available so if you are interested just send email or call straight to me. Bags you can find from Helsinki 10 at Eerikinkatu 3 untill
23 of december.
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13.12.07. - I am now also presented in the recently released book Pingstate: art of a visual community Check it out!
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1.12.07. - New sketches added
I have also made a two cover designs for a band called Vanity Beach.
The second one will be out soon.
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29.11.07. - New works
added.
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03.10.07. - Ok, it has been over 6 months without nothing new in my site, sorry about that. But there is going to be a change. I have lot´s of new ideas and few paintings under way. Im also gonna do new portfolio and it will be in net beginning of next year. Oh, and about that group exhibition that we have been planning with Kalle... the project is frozen untill Kalle get´s back from Portugal which is in next spring. The exhibition is definitelly coming, but it will take time. We don´t want to rush with it cause we wanna do it as good as we can. But it´s really gonna be worth of waiting.
Im updating my myspace page more often than this, so you should check that out also http://www.myspace.com/visual_me
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30.03.07. - New sketches added
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16.03.07. - It has been quite quiet here in last few months.
I´m having different projects going on that are not straight related to my own art.
Im curating an art exhibition with my friend Kalle Nieminen and
it´s going to be out not earlier than next year, but it´s going to be worth of waiting for. More info about the exhibition in near future.
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26.01.07. - Some new links added.
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17.01.07. - Finally my portfolio is updated! And hey, it didn´t took more than 3 months :)
New stuff: Installation kotona/poissa, new painting Inner idiot and hopefully a bit more useful layout. I also added prices in those works that are for sale.
If you are interested to buy some of my works or just want to comment, please don´t hasitate to contact me.