Sampokaikkonen.com Current Topics Current Topics of sampokaikkonen.com http://www.sampokaikkonen.com/?news= en Sampo Kaikkonen 5 Three Fates in Echoes of the Goddess by Simon Brighton & Terry Welbourn Book coverThe painting Three Fates illustrates the book Echoes of the Goddess: A Quest for the Sacred Feminine in the British Landscape by Simon Brighton & Terry Welbourn. The beautiful book will be released on March 2010.

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]]> Thu, 01 Jan 1970 02:00:00 +0200 International Exhibition 2010 Neo-Surrealism Sant Anna Convent in CoibraSampo Kaikkonen's painting Milky Way will be presented in the International Exhibition 2010 Neo-Surrealism in Portugal.

The Bissaya Barreto Foundation will open to the public an exhibition with a large part of the current surrealism.

The exhibition will take place in Sant´Anna Convent in Coimbra, Portugal, European Union. Exhibition time: 20th of May until 30th of June 2010.

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]]> Thu, 01 Jan 1970 02:00:00 +0200 Exhibition in Gallery Saskia Sampo Kaikkonen's solo exhibition will be held in the city of Tampere, Finland. The exhibition represents recent works by the painter.

Exhibition time:

Friday, May 14 - Wednesday, June 2, 2010 

Location:

Gallery Saskia, Pirkankatu 6, Tampere, Finland

]]> Thu, 01 Jan 1970 02:00:00 +0200 Nature Morte exhibition Sampo Kaikkonen will take part in the "Nature Morte" group exhibition. The juried exhibition of Oulu artists association takes place in the O. Jauhiainen Art Museum in Kiiminki, Finland.

Vernissage:
September 2, 2009 at 6:00pm

End Time:
Saturday, September 26, 2009 at 3:00pm

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]]> Thu, 01 Jan 1970 02:00:00 +0200 Kaikkonen Studies with Odd Nerdrum Sampo Kaikkonen spends two months in Norway studying with the worldknown Norwegian kitsch painter Odd Nerdrum. Kaikkonen is the first Finnish student to assist and study in Nerdrum school.

Odd Nerdrum is known for his figure, still life, and allegorical paintings accomplished with extraordinary skill and the style of the old masters.

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]]> Thu, 01 Jan 1970 02:00:00 +0200 Mediatiedote: Nocturne - Sampo Kaikkosen maalauksia Galleria Myötätuulessa 4.-29.11.2008 Tietoa näyttelystä

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]]> Thu, 01 Jan 1970 02:00:00 +0200 Nocturne exhibition 4.-29.11.2008 Welcome to the opening of the "Nocturne" exhibition in Gallery Myötätuuli on 3rd of November 2008 at 6pm. Sampo Kaikkonen's solo exhibition will be held in the city of Raahe in Norhern Finland. The exhibition represents about twenty recent works by the painter including some larger canvases that have not been exhibited before.

]]> Thu, 01 Jan 1970 02:00:00 +0200 Self Portrait exhibition Sampo Kaikkonen will take part in a group exhibition called "Self Portrait".

The juried exhibition of Oulu artists association takes place in the O. Jauhiainen Art Museum in Kiiminki, Finland. The exhibition time is 3rd September to 4th October 2008.

]]> Thu, 01 Jan 1970 02:00:00 +0200 200 Croquis Drawings by Sampo Kaikkonen ]]> Thu, 01 Jan 1970 02:00:00 +0200 Three Fates in opera It Must Be Fate Chip Clark's It Must Be Fate opera is about three sisters dealing with their role in a modern world. Sampo Kaikkonen's work Three Fates (2005) illustrates both the programme and the stage. The preview performance of the new opera is on 4th June at the Edinburgh Central Hall.

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]]> Thu, 01 Jan 1970 02:00:00 +0200 Essay Published on World Wide Kitsch Sampo Kaikkonen's essay 'From Ars to Art and back' is published on the World Wide Kitsch website.

]]> Thu, 01 Jan 1970 02:00:00 +0200 Kitsch Interview in Kaleva Sampo Kaikkonen was interviewed in the Finnish newspaper Kaleva.

Read his ideas about Kitsch in Kaleva.plus online newspaper (in Finnish only).

]]> Thu, 01 Jan 1970 02:00:00 +0200 Kitsch Biennale 2008 in Munich Sampo Kaikkonen's work Hidden will be presented in the Kitsch Biennale 2008 exhibition in Germany. The Kitsch Biennale will be held in Pasinger Fabrik, which is a culture house directed by the city of Munich. The juried international exhibition represents some of the best kitsch painters today.

]]> Thu, 01 Jan 1970 02:00:00 +0200 From Ars to Art And Back - An essay on art and kitsch An essay on art and kitsch by Sampo Kaikkonen was published. The essay presents the events of art history that have lead to the current concept of art. It also introduces the alternative kitsch philosophy presented by Odd Nerdrum as a solution to restore the respect of traditional art and skill.

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]]> Thu, 01 Jan 1970 02:00:00 +0200 Artist of the Month January 2008 Kaikkonen is presented in Gallery 5 as the Oulu Artists' Association's artist of the month.

]]> Thu, 01 Jan 1970 02:00:00 +0200 Libriars and Tabloid-exhibitions 2007 Kaikkonen will take part in two group exhibitioins in October 2007.

Libriars abd Tabloid are juryed exhibitions of Oulu artists association the former taking place in Oulu and the latter in Kiiminki.

]]> Thu, 01 Jan 1970 02:00:00 +0200 EMMA Exhibition in Austria 14.4.-6.5.07 Sampo Kaikkonen will participate the "European Masters of Modern Art" -biennal in Austria. Each European country will be represented by two artists. The exhibition takes place in Burgau's Water Castle 14.4. - 6.5.2007.

]]> Thu, 01 Jan 1970 02:00:00 +0200 Exhibition in O.Jauhiainen art museum Kaikkonen's private exhibition "Moment and eternity" will be held in Oskari Jauhiainen Art Museum, Kiiminki, Finland 14.3 - 5.4.2007.

The opening is on 14.3.07 at 6.00 pm.

]]> Thu, 01 Jan 1970 02:00:00 +0200 Exhibition in Rovaniemi 23.4. - 10.5.2007 Kaikkonen's private exhibition "Moment and eternity" will be held in Gallery Kilo, Rovaniemi, Finland 23.4 - 10.5.2007.

]]> Thu, 01 Jan 1970 02:00:00 +0200 Kitsch Annual 2006 Sampo Kaikkonen's work Three Fates was presented and sold in the Kitsch Annual 2006 exhibition in Norway.

The juried exhibition also represented one of the latest paintings by the worldfamous Odd Nerdrum.

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