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The novel describes Antero\u0026#39;s childhood, growing in post-war Oulu, in the shadows of the barracks in 1950s and 1960s. It is here, in this military army uniforms and blankets, grey of the barracks environment where Antero, future artist, has to show his stamina and endurance, where he has to use his multiple senses which enable him to understand and create the world differently.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Perhaps the fact that colors matter so much to both Hannu V\u0026auml;is\u0026auml;nen and his alter ego Antero is due to his childhood, which was somewhat devoid of strong colours. In the single-parent family of an alcoholically inclined NCO, life in the austere post-war Oulu with its harsh winters was not exactly colourful. And yet the grey of the barracks, army uniforms and blankets is a colour, too, with an immense number of shades.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ndash; \u003ca href=\"http://www.booksfromfinland.fi/2010/04/challenged-by-colour/\"\u003eSoila Lehtonen\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":6183,"title":"Apupata","dimensions":"11 x 17.8 cm, 220 p, language: Finnish, publisher: Otava - Helsingissä Kustannusosakeyhtiö, Helsinki , ISBN: 9789511248033","date_begin":"2011-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2030/180","stream_count_app":15,"permalink":"apupata","description_ru":"","description_de":"","description_es":"","description_el":"","short_description_du":"","short_description_fr":"","short_description_ru":"","short_description_de":"","short_description_es":"","short_description_el":"","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Hannu Väisänen","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/013/430/large/Apupata.jpg?1354728231","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eObservations on life, reissued from the author\u0026#39;s regular newspaper columns, in semi-fictionalized accounts. \u003cem\u003eApupata\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;is a small prose in which people, foods, colors, lights, entertainment, memories and signs are packed in compact portions. V\u0026auml;is\u0026auml;nen writes about a small village in south-west of France, in the perspective of miniature prose, impressionistic essays and genre painting (or petit genre), where the small things and the detailed findings will grow into a complete way of life expression. Still, Finnish culture and memories of barracks from Oulu area come along.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eV\u0026auml;is\u0026auml;nen deals with words like brush strokes, in a very sentimental way in which rhythm is very important.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/b\u003e Semi-fictionele bespiegelingen op het leven, een heruitgave van de regelmatige columns van de auteur in de krant.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":6181,"title":"Toiset Kengät (Antero-Trilogia)","dimensions":"17.8 x 10.9 cm cm, 367 p, language: Finnish, publisher: Otava - Helsingissä Kustannusosakeyhtiö, Helsinki, ISBN : 978-951-1-22639-0","date_begin":"2007-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2030/182","stream_count_app":17,"permalink":"toiset-kengat-antero-trilogia","description_ru":"","description_de":"","description_es":"","description_el":"","short_description_du":"","short_description_fr":"","short_description_ru":"","short_description_de":"","short_description_es":"","short_description_el":"","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/047/898/medium_500/Toiset_Kenga%CC%88t.jpg?1566492998","cached_actor_names":"Hannu Väisänen","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/047/898/large/Toiset_Kenga%CC%88t.jpg?1566492998","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eToiset Keng\u0026auml;t\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;(\u003cem\u003eThe Other Shoes\u003c/em\u003e), teenage wannabe artist Antero manages to escape his grey northern hometown of Oulu; he is heading for the eastern Finnish town of Savonlinna, where he will go to art college. Triumphantly Antero dyes his blond hair black in the bus station toilet. Redolent with 1960s nostalgia, this is a sensual description of Antero\u0026rsquo;s steps to adulthood, and a welcome follow-up to the writer\u0026rsquo;s acclaimed autobiographical first novel \u003cem\u003ePieces of Crispbread\u003c/em\u003e. Antero\u0026rsquo;s family moves from the barracks to a house on a perfectly ordinary street. Antero dreams of suede shoes and hipsters, experiences his first distant unrequited love affairs and attacks of angst at situations where he is expected to behave like a man. Out of a motley collection of experiences and whirling emotions he also begins to see his real vocation taking shape: Antero applies and is accepted into arts school, and turns his back on his home town.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;In my paintings, I\u0026rsquo;m using more and more unmixed colors \u0026ndash; that is, colors straight from the tube. It feels as if, after writing \u0026ndash; which I always experience as black-and-white \u0026ndash; I need to paint in pure primary colours. What a lot a large yellow surface can say! (\u0026hellip;) The basic difference between writing about colours and painting with them is, I suppose, that in painting a colour refers only to itself, without references. Within sentences, a colour, however, is accurately described, appears like a symbol, within the framework of the agreements of language.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ndash; \u003ca href=\"http://www.booksfromfinland.fi/2010/04/challenged-by-colour/#more-5416\"\u003eHannu V\u0026auml;is\u0026auml;nen\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":6182,"title":"Kuperat ja Koverat (Antero-Trilogia)","dimensions":"17.9 x 11 cm, 431 p, language: Finnish, publisher: Otava - Helsingissä Kustannusosakeyhtiö, Helsinki, ISBN: 9789511252","date_begin":"2010-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2030/178","stream_count_app":17,"permalink":"kuperat-ja-koverat-antero-trilogia","description_ru":"","description_de":"","description_es":"","description_el":"","short_description_du":"","short_description_fr":"","short_description_ru":"","short_description_de":"","short_description_es":"","short_description_el":"","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/047/897/medium_500/Kuperat_ja_Koverat.jpg?1566492922","cached_actor_names":"Hannu Väisänen","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/047/897/large/Kuperat_ja_Koverat.jpg?1566492922","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eSmile fanatics and weepy feeling types, a blind painter named Doris and a duffle coat with an architect inside ... \u003cem\u003eKuperat ja koverat\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;(\u003cem\u003eConvex and Concave\u003c/em\u003e), the third\u0026nbsp;book in this artist-writer\u0026rsquo;s autobiographical trilogy is a cornucopia. The Savonlinna High School of the Arts, with its ideological camps is just the opening bell on Antero\u0026rsquo;s path to independence and growth as an artist. Once he\u0026rsquo;s passed the entrance exams for art school, it\u0026rsquo;s time to take over Helsinki. His search for his niche as a student proves to be a multi-phased adventure, and along the way he gets to know such characters as an operetta singer who\u0026rsquo;s outgrowing her clothes and a seminarian who wears a wig. Antero\u0026rsquo;s emotional life is devastated when he falls in love with a duffle coat, and the architect inside it. Their alliance is like the siege of Orleans, short but far-reaching in its implications. The culmination of Antero\u0026rsquo;s colorful adventures comes when he is given his first solo exhibition, and at the opening has his final show-down with his father.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;In my paintings, I\u0026rsquo;m using more and more unmixed colors \u0026ndash; that is, colors straight from the tube. It feels as if, after writing \u0026ndash; which I always experience as black-and-white \u0026ndash; I need to paint in pure primary colours. What a lot a large yellow surface can say! (\u0026hellip;) The basic difference between writing about colours and painting with them is, I suppose, that in painting a colour refers only to itself, without references. Within sentences, a colour, however, is accurately described, appears like a symbol, within the framework of the agreements of language.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ndash; Hannu V\u0026auml;is\u0026auml;nen\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiteraire synopsis\u003c/b\u003e Glimlach-fanatiekelingen en huilerige types, een blinde schilder genaamd Doris en een duffelcoat met een architect in\u0026hellip; Het laatste boek van de trilogie van de kunstenaar-schrijver is een hoorn des overvloeds. De kunstschool van Savonlinna, met zijn ideologische kampen, is niet meer dan het startschot voor Antero\u0026rsquo;s pad naar onafhankelijkheid en groei als kunstenaar. Na de toelatingsproef voor de kunstschool is het tijd om Helsinki in te palmen. Zijn zoektocht als student naar een eigen niche blijkt een avontuur van meerdere stadia \u0026ndash; onderweg ontmoet hij figuren zoals een operettezangeres die haar kleren is ontgroeid en een seminarist die een pruik draagt. Antero\u0026rsquo;s emotionele leven wordt overhoop gegooid wanneer hij verliefd wordt op een duffelcoat, en de architect erin. Hun verbond is als het beleg van Orl\u0026eacute;ans: kort, maar met grote implicaties. Antero\u0026rsquo;s kleurrijke avonturen komen tot een hoogtepunt wanneer hij een eerste solotentoonstelling krijgt; bij de opening gaat hij de confrontatie met zijn vader aan. [Books From Finland](http://www.booksfromfinland.fi/2010/04/green-thoughts/) [Oulu Library](http://oulu.ouka.fi/kirjasto/kirjailijat/vaisanen/kuperat.html)\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":22048,"title":"Elohopea","dimensions":"17.8 x 11 cm, 363 p., language : Finnish, publisher : Otava - Helsingissä Kustannusosakeyhtiö, Helsinki, ISBN : 978-951-1-29963-9","date_begin":"2016-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":141,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"artist's novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2030/179","stream_count_app":11,"permalink":"elohopea","description_ru":"","description_de":"","description_es":"","description_el":"","short_description_du":"","short_description_fr":"","short_description_ru":"","short_description_de":"","short_description_es":"","short_description_el":"","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/047/893/medium_500/vaisanen_elohopea.jpeg?1566490216","cached_actor_names":"Hannu Väisänen","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/047/893/large/vaisanen_elohopea.jpeg?1566490216","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":""},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":22049,"title":"Piisamiturkki ja muita kertomuksia","dimensions":"17.8 x 11 cm, 286 p., language : Finnish, publisher : Otava - Helsingissä Kustannusosakeyhtiö, Helsinki, ISBN : 978-951-1-29661-4","date_begin":"2015-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":141,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"artist's novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2030/184","stream_count_app":8,"permalink":"piisamiturkki","description_ru":"","description_de":"","description_es":"","description_el":"","short_description_du":"","short_description_fr":"","short_description_ru":"","short_description_de":"","short_description_es":"","short_description_el":"","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/048/591/medium_500/20190918115455717_0001.jpg?1568800615","cached_actor_names":"Hannu Väisänen","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/048/591/large/20190918115455717_0001.jpg?1568800615","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":""},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":22050,"title":"Taivaanvartijat","dimensions":"17.9 x 11 cm, 284 p., language : Finnish, publisher : Otava - Helsingissä Kustannusosakeyhtiö, Helsinki, ISBN : 978-951-1-26273-2","date_begin":"2013-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":141,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"artist's novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2030/183","stream_count_app":8,"permalink":"taivaanvartijat","description_ru":"","description_de":"","description_es":"","description_el":"","short_description_du":"","short_description_fr":"","short_description_ru":"","short_description_de":"","short_description_es":"","short_description_el":"","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/048/590/medium_500/20190918113149461_0001.jpg?1568799277","cached_actor_names":"Hannu Väisänen","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/048/590/large/20190918113149461_0001.jpg?1568799277","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":""},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]}]