Art Prof.’s Lecture Draws Record Attendance

Prof. Arno Minkkinen's recent lecture at Boston University's Photographic Resource Center drew a standing-room-only audience.

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On his website, Prof. Arno Minkkinen says, “Art is risk made visible.”  His art was recently made very visible at Boston University’s Photographic Resource Center (PRC) in a lecture appearance that drew a record-breaking audience.

“For more than 30 years, I’ve been engaged in a single idea – to use my body as a means of expressing my relationship to nature,” he says.  Minkkinen’s lecture, titled “Arno Rafael Minkkinen: Unplugged as Always,” was sponsored by the Land Fund of the Polaroid Foundation. 

“The artist’s witty and instantly recognizable work – in which he inserts himself into the landscape – often in impossible poses – explores parallels between the physical environment and the human landscape,” says the PRC description. 

Minkkinen is represented by the Robert Klein Gallery in Boston, and his work may be viewed on his website, www.arnorafaelminkkinen.org.