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Jani Leinonen : " I want to become so famous that Damien Hirst's mother knows me "

Zurich
April 8 - Jun 4, 2011

The work of Jani Leinonen, much like the artist himself, is enigmatic. It is seemingly obvious, always ambiguous and instantly compelling. Leinonen takes the most saturated aspects of our modern world and re-presents them in constantly thought provoking ways. Whether it is the presentation of lavishly framed beggars signs at the Venice Biennale or oversized cereal boxes bursting from the grounds of a park, each one of his pieces is both humorous and deeply affecting.

In the past few years Leinonen has emerged as central to the continuous renaissance of art relating to shared cultural icons and popular lives. It has been decades since Pop Art, once seen as crude, emerged as the dominant artistic movement of the past fifty years. It is courageous, then, that Leinonen creates work in this already heavily mined area, and it is a statement of his incredible talent that the work feels entirely fresh each time one comes upon it. 

With this publication we are pleased to present to a wider audience the work and world of Jani Leinonen. His is a place soaked with collective cultural memories, where nothing is at it seems, everything is subverted and nothing is sacred.

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