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| | Framework 1/2004 |
 | | I am convinced that, through Palsa, interest in also living Lapland artists will grow, because, like Palsa, many are struggling with problems typical of the periphery and are criticising double standards, reflecting upon the madness of the world, and even turning their humanising and critical gaze on Santa himself. |
 | | Kalervo Palsa (1947-87) was born and lived in Kittilä, a small locality in the north of Finland, where he painted images of death, sex, violence and alcoholism with uncompromising moral rhetoric and bound up with highly personal experiences. |
 | | After Palsa’s death the three northern art museums in Tornio, Kemi and Rovaniemi produced in collaboration a major touring exhibition and an accompanying catalogue Kalervo Palsan (1947-1987) elämästä ja taiteesta (On the Art and Life of Kalervo Palsa (1947-1987)) in 1989. |
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