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Jukka Siikala

FI

Artist & painter from Helsinki, Finland. "I reach for ecstatic nausea with conflicting elements. I utilize painting techniques by mixing traditional layer painting and the popular imagenary in a vein of 70's American photorealism. In my latest works I have included expressive style as a contrast to small details. I try to avoid creativity and stylization as a humanizing factor. I copy the original models quite faithfully favouring strict cuts through human figures as compositional brutality. The same unintenional spirit of mercilessness can be seen in the errors of pixelated digital images that I have used as models. As a raw material I use amateur pornography, that is tuned up with more or less intuitive elements. The outcome is a mix of my own assosiations, reducement, medical illustration, own photographs etc. As a side product I reflect the trends of our time in a same wretched style as eurotrash and exploitation cinema. In fact I like to see my self as trash artist. I also feel resemblance with noise music."

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