Riiko Sakkinen


































Riiko Sakkinen

An artist and dissident. 
 
Riiko Sakkinen was born 1976 in Helsinki. After graduating from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, in 2002, he moved to Spain, where he is headquartered in Pepino, a tiny village in the province of Toledo. 
 
Riiko Sakkinen is the founder of Turbo Realism, a 21st century art movement which depicts the globalized capitalism with a mocking verisimilitude. He does drawings, paintings, murals, objects, slideshows, installations and interventions about the consumer culture from fast-food to prostitution and from hypermarkets to drug cartels. He believes, according to Pablo Picasso's words, that the art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy

















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