Punainen vaara, 1994. Painting of Vladimir Lenin and Sarah Young by Jarmo Mäkilä.
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2933 x 4399 px | 24.8 x 37.2 cm | 9.8 x 14.7 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
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Tampere, FinlandMore information:
The exhibition of Jarmo Mäkilä's (b. 1952) work continued the Sara Hildén Art Museum's tradition of mounting retrospective exhibitions of Finnish artists, a series in which the emphasis is on a researcher-based presentation of artists who are represented in the Sara Hildén Foundation's collection. Chronologically structured exhibition presented the central themes and changes in the content of Mäkilä's oeuvre from the 1970s to the latest works. During his versatile career, Mäkilä has dealt with social issues, popular culture, the history of painting and questions concerning human existence. In the early 1970s, Mäkilä painted cubist still lifes and proletarian subjects in the spirit of socialist realism. At the turn of the 1980s, he turned to painting collages, in which he combined images culled from newspapers with elements of popular culture. At that time he also produced a series of portraits of punks. Mäkilä is one of the first Finnish representatives of postmodernism, In the mid-1980s he painted a series called The Never-Ending Story that was based on works by Rubens. It comprised large-scale paintings of scenes from classical Greek and Roman mythology. Many regarded Mäkilä’s painting series (1993) of the English adult entertainment star Sarah Young as objectifying women although his intention was to present woman in a heroic light. (https://www.tampere.fi/sarahilden/en/index/exhibitions/jarmo-makila.html)