Currently I am working as a consultant to a new virtual project that should open to the public soon.
I am afraid that after that the blog will be history.
Bises. -aapo

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Sizes equally quite big, x = sold. 

Stuck in the gates of Shangri-La

 From Borderlines exhibition, sorry 'bout the shitty quality pics. More coming soon to Borderlines website. Info about the series there also. 

Meanwhile, I'm now living in Amsterdam (yes, you can come to visit, I dont have a place at the moment tho. But we can share my cardboard castle. )

Few observations:

1. You cant buy normal buillon from shops, its always with some weird spices (kasvisliemikuutioita? nope).

2. Finding a place is ridiculous. Really hard and expensive (just like me). 

3. Cheese is good. Not as good as in France, but still good. 

 4. With all the weed smoking going on, one might think that there would be some quality tobacco being sold, but that is not the case. L&M going strong.

5. Coffee is as bad as in Finland. 

6. Milk is worse. 

7. Hot Dogs are allllright. 

8. I'm hungry now. 

9. Kebab. 

10. Moi!

WEB : CLICK

 

4. Height 160 cm. 

1x1 m

Gates. Height 160 cm.

Height 180 cm.

Out of Town (The city of God).

The Flag.

Mon Pot from Aapo Nikkanen on Vimeo.

UPDATE

 Damn, it took a while...
The little birds, and those ugly big ones too, are singing that there will be a VERY interesting group show in Tampere, Finland opening in 26th of August. You dont want to miss it!!

http://www.souterrain-berlin.de/

I'm so lazy. Just go to see if you are in Berlin, there will be one painting of mine. 

Soon I will update EVERYTHING. The Blog, the website, ny hair, my house, my atelier, my pets, my bank account status and my facebook status, maritial status will remain. I promise.

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Just putting these links, fuck I am lazy. It's an expo, opening today at 17.00. 

Tampere Finland, go check it!!! (Perkele!)  

Greed in Genéve

 Check it from here: www.aaponikkanen.com

A lot of stuff to do. I will write soon, "I promise". 

Upcoming groupshows: 

15.4. P.S. a picture would be nice Galleries Mältinranta & TR1 Tampere Finland

6.5. Traces, Gallerie Souterrain Berlin Finland

Come to say hello boys & girls.

I Love Kebab Pictures!

 Busy busy busy lot of things to do... I will write something later. Maybe about my pondering of a sex change or meetings with alien wifeforms. Meanwhile enjoy the pics.

( http://www.almostthere.fi/ )

This cool blog made a segment about me, go check it out, loads of good stuff, mostly on design and illustration. Worthy of your followness!

Aapo Nikkanen & Pekko Rinkinen:

I Love Kebab

Galleria Kalleria Helsinki 18.2-9.3.2011

 This is what happens when two kebab brains join their forces and make an exhibition!

Everyone is heartfully invited to the opening of the next exhibition, the joint show with me and the great Pekko Rinkinen. 18.2. at 18.00 in Gallery Kalleria Hellsinki Fineland.

Enough said, see you there!

Finally something for the cool kids!

( http://www.aaponikkanen.com/ )

Are you tired of the virtual space being controlled by geeks? So far the only sites where the decent citizens has been able to visit has been in the world of porn with the few exceptations of funny pictures or videos of drunkards. But now in the virtual desert of internet a new flower has bloomed, as my site is finally online. This means that there will be a new dimension to this blog also, as it can be finally used for the purpose the blog system was originally designed: telling subjective opinions as facts and gloating with ones superiour lifestyle, or those fucking fashion blogs written by blond bitches who hopefully end up homeless by 35. The only respectable form of blogging is an audio blog, keeping us posted of great music and giving it for us for free (the greatest is of course still awesomeatapesfromafrica if somebody has somehow still unaware of this).

So, let's go!

This seasons trend is a pocket size bird and large Armani shades. A 9-o´clock-fleemarket-run-after-partying-the-whole-night-sweater is a good hook-up also if you wish to stay in the "book of cool".
(Bird by Australia, Sunglasses by Emmaus second hand, Sweater by too wasted-to-remember)

Go check the site, I'm still in the process of updating it, so keep coming back. Click. 

Chinese attack!

The Chinese attacked and hacked my email and deleted my blogspot. They proceeded to distribute communistic propaganda to every single contact I have in my email (which is quite a few), so if you are among the people who recieved pamflet about cheap pills, gaming consoles or other fundamental leftist propaganda in your mail, please accept my humble apology. Luckily I have some friends in VERY HIGH places in the soil of U.S., and they retrieved my blog and arrested 36 Chinese gypsy spys from Golden Dragon restaurant in North Ireland. 

All is well again and there is peace in the world. 

On the more positive note: after locking dozen geeks, five graphic designers, a monkey and a typewriter to my cellar, it seems that my website is finally going to be reality. Although I waited much more from this super-team fed by super food (a strict bacon diet), I think in the end it will be quite simple site. Among things, it includes buttons and pictures.

Also, next year I will likely to have something like 5 exhibitions, but more about those later. Now I'm tired of fighting the red devil and I must retreat to our mountain chateau. 

p.s. Coming to Fineland in 21.12 - see you boys n girls!   

 Out of town (2)

 Retards are free

 The new guy

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Hitler poking the hole in his head and getting the idea of Nazism

Some paper stuff

A real post after a while, some stuff from that anorectic space between painting and drawing, this time on paper (size a2? dunno). I keep it coming. Upcoming shows also, spring season: February in Helsinki with Pekko Rinkinen and in April a group show in Tampere. There might be one more groupie coming before the summer, we will see...

p.s. I am also in love for the most beautiful girl in the world.

Pekkanikkarinen - Uni

The album is finally out and we are really proud of this little gem. 

Both cd (coming soon) and (FREE) download. Official infos below (blaka-blow!)

Pekkanikkarinen is a new project from Admiral Appo and Midiskibis, newly-wed gentlemen from southern Finland with a background in the underground psytrance world. Here they proudly present the story-like Uni, an intricate 5 track mini-album co-released by People Of The Butterflies and Freudian Slip Records. This is the soundtrack to Unimaailma (Dreamworld), a play performed by the Finnish fire/fluoro dance group Revontuli. The music is creative and unpredictable, switching from broken beats and abstract experimental grooves to ripping Suomi-style psytrance before spiralling outward in a bewitching haze. Mastered by Wille Hermansson (Astroschnautzer) @ Freudian Slip Studios. Cover artwork by Design Kyklooppi & Ilona Illustrations.

DOWNLOAD: HERE 

Kallio Warriors (summer 2010)

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Artist's statement (2007)

Even though I woke up late, as usual, I decided to brew some coffee before I was going start my journey to the metro station. Luckily my hours were flexible, although it would be all the same if I would come to work at twelve, since there wouldn't be anything going on before that anyways. At least nothing I would care about, thats for sure. I guess thats why I haven't held a real job for some years now.

After I got my gasoline down, I started my walk. In the escalator of the Speed Markets* metro station some really random looking junkie came trying to sell some meds to me. And if there's something that I can honestly say, it's that I seriously am not, nor look like, that kind of dude who would buy some sketchy pills from a metro station around ten in the morning. At any rate, I had to laugh inside that Helsinki had just become a bit more international, even if everywhere else the merchandise is something else than Xanors. Or whatever the fucking junk he was selling. 

You know, I've gotten this feeling that those guys have seriously multiplied recently, junkies I mean. The amount of weekend warriors exploded ages ago, but I'm talking about those full time junk workers. And they've swarmed the Speed Market. Every time I see someone like him I hope that he would fall in love or something. Because there is always hope. It's an easy thing to forget, but there is. I guess the problem is that everything is always happening tomorrow, or at least in the future, things like my quitting of smoking and that jog of yours. When will we get there? 

It's just that we humans are such a lazy, comfort seeking and ease lusting animals. Pretty fucking terrible beings, actually. And it's always easiest to fool one's self, and sometimes you don't even have to. Yes, I do know that the chicken from that thai-food joint is pretty damn unethically produced, but it is also pretty damn good. Fuck all I care about the ethics when that curry is melting in my mouth. Or when the plane is going down to some place where the drinks are being poured to a coconut. No one bloody cares about the situation of the world at that point. It is just so fucking awesome that everything is so cheap. I feel that most of the people don't even think to ask why? And who really picks up the tab from our globe hopping for example? Just a while ago the jet-setters where the only few who could fly around like that, at these days anyone of us can go online and click-click; fifty euros to London. I have nothing against internet though, it's pretty fucking amazing, the biggest thing in centuries. I am a bit scared about what's going to be the situation when I'm old though. I hope I won't be as lost as my parents are at the moment. On the other hand we grew up to this distance-less world, our parents are trying to hop onto a moving train in the halfway of the journey.

Also, did you know that magpie is the most intelligent bird? Think about it, a magpie, out of all birds! Not an owl, nor an eagle, but a goddamn magpie. Though it's not a surprise in a way, we humans are alike – always after something shiny that we even don't really need. But there is always hope, even for me. You just gotta keep on pushing, try your best, share the good and do something that fills some of that hole inside. 

For me the fill is making art. Sometimes I feel like I'll never love any person as much as my creations. It's my way of clear all the things I've seen and gone through. Show things and tell stories, and believe me, those I've got plenty of. During my lifetime I've seen such strange extremes and wankers, that sometimes I've even had to pinch myself. I've seen what's the utmost rich and what's to be piss poor and how love twists through hate to the level of utter rage, that I've seen too. And experienced all kinds of shit from both ends. 

To me it's not a bit strange that one's friends deal or take drugs, party like the tomorrow is just a sunny continuation to the party, or steal stuff just for the sake of it. It's all about freedom, or the lack of it. Or the twisted conditioned concept of freedom we've fed. Actually whatever the fuck is okay, as long as you don't hurt other people. Personally, I just care about making my art and trying to love in the process. All in all, I would guess my progression hasn't been exactly the average, but enough of this, it isn't suppose to be an autobiography, you know? 

At the end of the day, all that stuff going in- and outside of my head ends up to my works. They are mostly paintings, but I always choose the format based on the idea or the concept, instead of trying to force everything to canvasses. It seems that I like to work serially, then when something is all chewed up, I'll move to the next one. Kind of like relationships. Often them ex-s don't feel so great afterwards, sometimes people even end up hating them. But like the old cliché goes: keep on moving, it ain't about the destination, but the travel. (2007)

* piritori, a square next to the Sörnäinen metro station in Helsinki

The most important Finnish performance / video art piece ever made

 

This should be mandatory for all art students / artists to check once in a while...

Geneva

 After 5 months, tens of paintings, drawings, some objects / sculptures and one bad lucked video shoot, this is what ended up on the wall. Again, I apoligize for the shitty picture quality, I had to borrow a camera and all I got was a shitty Ixus.

Disco Explosion

The Spanish Monster

 Freedom

Undead and Unemployed

Bidule

The King

The Brains

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Bums vs. Rednecks

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It is a good start, I say. Enjoy the summer all of you!

P's!