RIIKO SAKKINEN

During an artistic career that has spanned three decades, Finland-born, Spain-based artist, Riiko Sakkinen has never met a prickly issue that he has not been willing to tackle frontally, through his art. Throughout his career, he has consistently used art as a platform to question, critique, and expose unfair systems and injustices, and garnered much recognition and accolades along the way.

Through his art, Riiko does not only call for a fundamental rethinking of unfair and unbalanced systems, but over time, his artistic journey has also led him to question the very foundations and purpose of art itself. As an alternative, Riiko has created an artistic philosophy he has termed, Turborealism.

Riiko´s works have been exhibited and collected widely including by the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; HAM, Helsinki; Amos Rex, Helsinki; Bury Art Museum, United Kingdom; and Serlachius Museums, Mänttä, Finland, which houses an extensive selection of his major works and paraphernalia.

In this exclusive collection of limited edition prints for THE GRAPA, Riiko Sakkinen invites you to enter his colorful Turborealist world where all is not well; neither with the workers and industries nor with the economic system and the values that underpin it. The beauty of this special collection lies in the craftsmanship; the hand-made details, and the use of color expertly combined to convey the powerful social commentary of Riiko ́s Turborealist Art.