(24.05.1950 – 29.03.2008)

From the earliest phases of Ando Keskküla’s  activity, two leading motifs can be observed, which seem to pursue him, thus forming the main poles of his art. The first is the impact of the artificial environment and new technologies on our sense of reality, which is a creative combination of the concepts of technology and psychedelia, could in the context of Keskküla’s work define his exploration of how the technological tools for communication, seeing and perceiving alter both the ways of perceiving the world and the processes of subject formation. Already Keskküla’s thesis includes an idea that alludes to a radical media theory of the 1960s that technologies as “extensions” of people also change the subjects themselves. However, the issues related to reality and realism, the relations between reality and image, and the manipulation of the illusion of reality are also closely intertwined with his work. This is the illusion that art both plays with and explores. While until the 1980s Keskküla primarily dealt with these issues through the art of painting, as well as animation, in the 1990s new interactive (video) technologies, which made it possible to involve viewers and to manipulate their senses in a new way, started to predominate.

Anders Härm, Ando Keskküla. Reality and Technodelics, NOBA 2020.