Kustaa Saksi

Kustaa Saksi’s illustrations are a syrupy disarray of elements: playful, paradoxical, often over-glossy, inviting, troubling, messy, and yet strangely clear. Radiating meaning, bending what’s real and distilling what’s unreal he combines organic touches and viscous shapes into new world psychedelia. After spending many years in Paris, the Finnish born illustrator found his studio on the [...]

Urban Umbrella

Notes from an Architectural Exhibition in Talca.
by Mauricio Ramírez Molina *

The initial idea was thought provoking: construct a covering using 400 red umbrellas (outside of their intended purpose) suspended over the new pedestrian mall in the city of Talca to create a visual impression of the inhabitants of a city in which it [...]