21.4.-15.5.2005 Jani Hänninen

NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND




Clock of Life




Drunks against Mad Girlfriends




Mr Natural




Play to Win




Rehab




Superego




My life my rules




Brookly




Black Day




Shield




Hand of hope




Hooligan




Abandoned




Addict




Restless




03 - notking


C V




Jani Hänninen's (born 1974) paintings are of the present day. They refer to places that I do not know (and where I probably wouldn't dare to go) and often to states of mind that I would not necessarily want to experience. Yet nonetheless… even though the subject matter seems quite dismal, the painting itself has such drive and joy of self-expression that hopelessness turns into living hope. These paintings are direct and unbridled and full of calculated risks like a skateboarder's lipslide into a rail.