Photographer, painter and designer Kari Riipinen has a comprehensive retrospective exhibition at Galleria Uusitalo in June 2008. Since 1977 Riipinen has designed hundreds of record album covers, posters, labels, book covers etc. He has engaged in publicity photography for the music business, rock musicians, authors, composers, dancers, models, artists and celebrities.

Between 1975 and 2001 Riipinen also published several articles and poems in various cultural publications. The exhibition at Uusitalo will showcase Riipinen’s career, presenting recent works, including paintings and reworkings of his earlier photographic output, together with a selection of the artist’s favourite work from the past 3 decades.

Interview and Madonna Collage, 2007


Finnish Landscape in Winter, 2006-07


Finnish Landscape in Summer, 2006-07


Artists Portrait Swedish Publisher, 2005

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