“Anselm Kiefer’s megalomaniac ramblings are, similarly, the history of our art is full of truly large-scale works, from the Sistine Chapel to Guernica, and even Monet’s water lilies in the Paris Orangery are not spoiled by intimacy, although they have that too.”
“My own experiments in the ten square meter arena are quite modest tunings compared to what has been seen in the industry. That’s why sometimes I also focus on the classic Aanelos. Monumentality is not always about size.”
The exhibition has been completed thanks to the Aboa grant granted by the city of Turku.
Painter Mikko Paakkola (born 1961) lives and works in Turku. Paakkola studied at the Turku School of Drawing 1981–85 and later at L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris with a postgraduate scholarship granted by the French government 1988–90 in Joël Kermarrec’s studio.
Paakkola’s debut exhibition was in 1984 at the Wäinö Aaltonen Museum in Turku. Paakkola lived and worked in Brussels from 1996 to 2006, after which he has been actively involved in the activities of the Brussels art center Office d’Art Contemporain. Paakkola is a founding member of the Helsinki-based gallery Ranka in 2015.
