Koponen, my multi -talented artist Mattijuhi, is dead.
Mattijuhi Koponen in 2012. Jenni Gästgivar
Artist My Mattijuhu Koponen has died at the age of 83. Telling Helsingin Sanomat. Koponen’s daughter confirmed information about the artist’s departure to HS.
Koponen originally became known as the character of the 1960s underground culture. He was a true multi -talented artist: wrote poems, songs and plays, and did fine art. Koponen was also a Underground group sperm camper.
Artist Mattijuhi Koponen in 1989. Jukka Uotila
Most famous performance
In 1968, Koponen shocked his performance at an old student house. He performed a performer with a female actor on the grand piano. Koponen was naked, a woman in the jerseys – but only because she started to menstruation and she started exciting. Otherwise, according to Koponen, they had to act really.
The performance was largely unseen as the couple performed the performance in the light of a candle.
In January 1969, the public prosecutor became interested in the action of a fast-paced artist when Ilta-Sanomat sees a picture of Koponen’s bare backside, and the Smile-Lehtikki also publishes a rafting report on the grand pianic family of the old student house.
Koponen received an absolute imprisonment for the performance as it was considered to have violated the gender discipline in a public place. He sat for four months for his sentence. He refused to reveal the identity of the opposite actor to the authority.
Iltalehti interviewed Kopo in 2013. He wondered how decades ago could still be remembered.
– Of course it was a pretty special thing. After all, I am the only Finn who has been in prison because of my art, Koponen comments.
Mattijuhi Koponen in the Presidential Palace in 2000. Eero Liesimaa
During his life, Koponen was involved in many creative projects. For example, he participated in Ilosaarirock’s earliest years of organizers in the 1970s and worked as a journalist for a long time. In 2014, he was granted an artist pension.
Source: Iltalehti Archive