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In today's my tour of the world gallery will be a story about the painting of one of the most important and famous of modern Finnish painters.
So, first about who drew it. His name is not Just the yoke of Chaff, but still a little longer-the Yoke Esa Antero Chaff. He was born on July 1, 1952 in Raum and I think that all these years he has been listed as the leading most important Finnish postmodernist artist.
Well, maybe not the fifties, but certainly since the early seventies – that's when in 1970 he went to Helsinki to study at the School of art and design at the Academy of arts, he then two months later opened his first solo exhibition, which was declared as one of the largest exhibitions of the year in Finland. Let me say it again. At the age of eighteen, studying in the first year – the first exhibition and at the same time not a national team, but a personal one and at the same time it is immediately declared as the largest exhibition in the country. I will not even comment on anything, but will just tell you more.
In 1978 he received the position of Deputy Chairman of the Union of artists of Finland and a chair at the Helsinki University of arts and design, and in 1979 at the same time at the Academy of fine arts. In 1982 he became the Chairman of the Union of artists, and at the same time, in 1986 he created the Association of artists of Finland and headed it. In 1993 he became acting Director of the Academy of fine arts.
In General, here is that anywhere with me Robit – but this very strange "postmodernist" and I always with suspicion am to so rapidly soaring people. And if they draw "raising topical and socially important issues" - then at all.
But he's certainly technical. Although the constant mess of some references, stable images or formed types-well, something like that... well, too pop from this pulls.
For the past five years, he has been particularly known for his large and colorful acrylic billboards, which combine objects from classical paintings, cartoons, commercials, rock paintings or currently popular films. Well, he recently released the comics "Ghost Town, ""Dreamer" and " van Gogh's Taxi Ear."
And what is posted on the congratulatory post in the Maltsev gallery is one of the works of the cycle "Games for boys", which he wrote in 2012. It's about how post-war children fit themselves into a world where fathers who returned from the war somehow did not know how to talk to them. Especially if, like father Jarmo, they were the highest officers in the Finnish army. Yes, fought on the side of the third Reich and the losers of the war.
Yeah, and for now, enjoy.
Jarmo Mäkilä — The Bang (oil on canvas, 2012)
