Juha Mytkäniemi

A commission started last fall is done. Size approx. 10 m x 3 m The commissioner wanted a desert and a rider on a horse. We talked a lot throughout the process. Among the topics were deserts of Arizona, Spaghetti Westerns, American cars, Clint Eastwood, travelling and motorcycles. Comic books like Lucky Luke and Tex Willer came strongly to my mind. Moebius and his landscapes were an inspiration too. I think all the mentioned just mixed and transformed and took a visual form that came out to be this.  In any case I want to say thank you Ismo for this experience. Your hospitality and your mentality in life are things to look up to.

The last year of the decade. Here are some things that happened. Group exhibition in gallery Valo, Arctic Center Arktikum, Rovaniemi Commission for private customer .

Mural for housing company Väylätie 39, Rovaniemi Mural for Lapland University of Applied Sciences, Rovaniemi Mural for private customer in Rovaniemi Street art and graffiti workshop for University of Lapland. Amazing students.

Thank you fellow artists, people of culture association  Valsa and Eveliina Mänty-Ollanen for curating. 

STGV (Circus, Dance, Graffiti and Photography) Summer Camp. The final event of the Taidevaihde - Art Gear project. Huge thank you once again to the great participants and the whole Art Gear producer team. It has been a pleasure.