Exhibition
Schändlich / Shameful
26 Aug 2016 – 24 Sep 2016
Event times
Vernissage: Freitag 26. August, 19 Uhr
Öffnungszeiten Kolonie-Wochenende: So. 28. August von 14–18 Uhr
Cost of entry
free
Address
- Koloniestraße 120
- Wedding
- Berlin
Berlin - 13359
- Germany
Travel Information
- U-Bahn Osloer Straße
Painting: Juha Sääski is a Finnish visual artist and exhibit in Toolbox, Finnish-German Art Space Berlin.
Video: Stoll & Wachall, Berlin | Sue Mandewirth, Ludwigshafen
Vernissage: Sound Improvisation Harri Sjöström (Sax.)
About
In Juha Sääski’s paintings shame is put in an appearance through social phenomenons and gender role models. The concept of shame is changing continuously; the things that used to be shameful twenty years ago, are not necessarily shameful today. Among other factors reality television has changed the culture, hiding shame has become making it public.
In Sääski’s paintings shameful means for instance how we have let the structures of our societies change under command of economy at the expense of human values, dreams and future hope.
A limited amount of humour in Sääski’s paintings is acting as a symbol of hope.
Juha Sääski is showing distanced metaphors of different forms of shame and its social connections through surreal and absurd associations. But nevertheless they are not too far removed from the view of everyday life.
The cliches and naive elements used by Sääski are included in the means of comedy, which show the nature of things and phenomenons in a new, but not a joking viewpoint. Sääski’s aim in juxtaposing the tragicomic, contrary elements is to express the paradox of human existence universally applicable.