I had an amazing media week in Finland. The biggest newspaper Helsingin Sanomat mocked me in two articles - first in their international section about my opinions on the Syrian crises and then in the culture pages about by membership in the Communist Party of Spain and by coincidence (?) it was published next to the information about my shortlisting for the Carnegie Art Award 2014. I'm a card-carrying communist competing for a million-crown painting prize of an investment bank.

We gave lots of interviews about the Homelessness Fair that I curated in collaboration with Jani - it opened on Thursday at the Hyvinkää Art Museum. The exhibition catalog was published as a supplement of Iso Numero, a magazine sold by the poor and homeless people in the streets. It was a bizarre feeling to see an old lady on her knees begging and holding a magazine with my face on its cover.

Last year, I wrote a preface for Jani's catalog telling that I appreciated his special capability of collaborating with a strange range of organizations varying from a political party to a religious institution.

Tomorrow, the Homelessness Fair opens at the Hyvinkää Art Museum and Promenadigalleria located in Hyvinkää, a satellite town north from Helsinki. The show curated by Jani and me features five local artists but the protagonists of the event are 18 invited NGOs and other organization that work with homeless people including the Salvation Army, Design Museum, the Buddhist Rokpa, several shelter organizations and Finland's Slot Machine Association.

It's not hard to guess what we think about the homelessness, its reasons and its possible solutions but this time - to create genuine dialog - we give the floor to people with who we probably don't agree but who are true experts of homelessness. I have surprised myself positively, I though I were not that tolerant and liberal person and artist.

Finland almost kills me - it's not only the complex project Homelessness Fair I'm curating with Jani at Hyvinkää Art Museum but all the social events and networking in the evenings - an endless program of dinners, receptions and drinks with friends and colleagues. I'm not complaining, it's lots of fun, but exhausting to a middle aged man used to tranquil country life.

Today, I have a professional meeting with Pauli in Mänttä, a small village with an amazing art scene middle of nowhere. Pauli is now in Helsinki and stays - by coincidence according to him - in Hotel Klaus K's Riiko Sakkinen Suite painted by myself and he will pick me up soon at my mom's place which I prefer over hotel rooms nowadays. I was offered hotel accommodation in Hyvinkää, where we install the show but I decided to commute three and half hours everyday by metro and train. Anyways, today I'll sleep in a hotel in Mänttä. Pauli said he has booked me a room at Honkahovi, which used to be an exhibition venue but to my surprise it's now converted in a hotel. I exhibited there my Used Panties International few years ago. I've always had great time in Mänttä. Tonight there is the opening of Mäntän kuvataideviikot, the biggest annual show in Finland so some more drinks and partying are waiting for me. I hope that my body will still accept this proposal.

Have you heard of this week's Marimekko scandal? Probably not, if you don't follow Finnish media but in my northern patria it has been the biggest piece of news during the past few days.

Marimekko is the most important Finnish fashion and home furnishing brand particularly noted for brightly colored printed fabrics. Now the public embarrassment was that Kristina Isola, the daughter of their classic 60's designer Maija Isola, had copied the design of the fabric Metsänväki from a work of the Ukrainian naivist painter Maria Pryimachenko. This was exposed by the Finnish media as a national shame and the company apologized the people of Finland. My Spanish wife laughed that something like this can happen only in Finland, a small country with a monolithic culture and few real problems.

The Finns consider Russia their enemy and it was humiliating to many that a symbol of our identity was discovered to be just plagiarism of the 60's Soviet naivism. I think this is a great example that the borders and national cultures are pure myths and their symbols are invented. A forest can represent Finland, Ukraine or multiple other counties of the world. All the trees of the world, unite!

I have now finished my biggest painting ever. The total size of the installed work is 450x200cm. The size of each part is 30x36cm. 57 Varieties consists of 57 different red monochromes with labels indicating the reference of each color ranging from food to politics and from commercial brands to fairy tails. 57 Varieties is a historical advertising slogan of Heinz, the world’s biggest ketchup producer. The catchphrase has come to mean anything that is comprised or mixed from a lot of parts or origins. None of the colors was mixed in the studio. They are all used as they are produced. The acrylic colors are artists’ materials and the enamels, the acrylic enamels and the spray paints are from a hardware store.

The items are (in alphabetical order): Blood, Camicie rosse, Campari, Cherry, Chili, China, Coca-Cola, Communism, Daredevil, Donald Duck’s Car, Ferrari, Fire Brigade, Johnnie Walker, Ketchup, Khmer Rouge, Lightning McQueen, Lipstick, The Little Red Book, Little Red Riding Hood, London Bus, Love, Manchester United, Marlboro, Mars, Meat, Moulin Rouge, Muleta, Ocean Spray, Republican Party, Red Alert, Red Army Faction, Red Baron, Red Bull, Red Card, Red Carpet, Red Cross, Red Herring, Red Lantern, Red Light District, Red Nose, Red Sea, Red Square, Red Star Belgrade, Redneck, Redskin, Ruby, Santa Claus, Snow White’s Apple, Social Democracy, Socialism, Soviet Union, Spanish Football Team, Strawberry, The Thin Red Line, Three Colors: Red, Tomate Frito, Wine