HOMAGE TO KARI PIIPPO

Virtual exhibition to the memory of Kari Piippo. Click here to go to the virtual gallery.

SPQR - OPTICAL ILLUSION

 SPQR an initialism for Senatus Populusque Romanus (The Senate and People of Rome) is an emblematic phrase referring to the government of the Roman Republic. The inscription can still be seen in many places in Rome today as well. Among other things, on the covers of the manholes. I even took a photo of one. Here it is, upside down. When I turn the picture over, a special optical illusion appears. The prominent positive shapes of the picture change into recessed negative shapes. The phenomenon follows from the knowledge that light mostly comes from above. Learned knowledge, but perhaps more inherited knowledge. "Lux desuper venit" Mistical, isn't it!?

PROJECTOR HUNGARY

The new edition of PROJECTOR magazine – edited by Mitya Kharshak – is dedicated to Hungarian poster art. This issue features 10 Hungarian poster designers: Dóra Keresztes, István Horkay, Anna Korolovszky, József Árendás, Kata Kaldor, Dóra Balla, Péter Bence Simon, Andrej Tóth and László Nagy and István Orosz, The edition is available in printed and online formats.

More information about the PROJECTOR HUNGARY:  https://projector.international/projector42/

You can read the online version here: https://www.calameo.com/read/007581448d9e9fb03e37e

 

2025

SO LONG ... KARI...

In memoriam Kari Piippo (1945 - 2024)

BUCHAREST 2X

My work is shown in two exhibitions at the same time in the Romanian capital. In the framework of Bucharest Graphic Days, I will have a solo poster exhibition in the Rotonda Hall of the National Theatre in Bucharest, the central venue of the event. The material has been selected by graphic artist Ciprian N. Isac, who has directed the exhibition and designed the catalogue, thanks to him. This exhibition opens on Saturday 19 October and will be open until 10 November. The other exhibition will be in the gallery of the Liszt Institute - Hungarian Cultural Centre in Bucharest, where my autonomous graphic sheets and my mirror cylinder anamorphoses will be exhibited. The latter exhibition will open on the evening of 23 October, and will be on view until 8 November.

ПАКА !

August 31 marks the 30th anniversary of Russian troops finally leaving Estonian soil.

While Estonia became independent in August 1991, it took another three years for the last soldiers from the former Soviet occupying regime to leave, and while this was done in a largely orderly manner, more recent events in Ukraine have given added poignancy to the Estonian experience, and a reminder that while Estonia is free of occupying armies' boots, some other countries are not so fortunate.

Drawing the dots between the two, long-term Estonian resident and U.S. national Chuck Czepyha has spearheaded a campaign to raise money for Ukraine while commemorating the events of 1994 – and more specifically a major rock concert which took place in Estonia.

"I first came to Estonia one week after the Russians left, and one souvenir I bought was the PAKA! concert poster," Czepyha told ERR News.

"Paka," a Russian word, could approximately be translated as "(good)bye," in this context.

Click here to know more about the poster and the concert.