Maruyama Yoshiko

Leaf boat

Leaf boat anchored to its place at the Kauppila shore tells a passer-by to stop. The stone words arranged around it ask you in Japanese and in Finnish, if you can hear the echo of nature and the past, if you can hear the flow of the Iijoki river, the soughing of leaves, the noise coming from the playing of children who have grown at the Kauppila school and the artists in their work building the works of the Biennale.

Maruyama Yoshiko: Leaf boat. 2010.

Gallery

’Station’ located in front of the bus station that stirs opinions in Ii because of its shack-like facade is in all its coarseness a well-fitting pair for the terminal point of the bus line, where young people in particular like to spend their evenings. ‘Station’, or by its other name ’Tower of Ii’, is a continuation of the micro-state of Ladonia, completed in Scania as the artist’s life-work, that includes the wooden works called Nimis and Arx. ‘Station’ is the very first work of art completed in Finland and attached to Ladonia by which the artist wished to create a separate landmark for Ii.

Helena Kaikkonen

Crocheted works of textile art greeting gladly, high in the mighty trees appear only to those who really look at the landscape. When bright summer nights are changing into autumn evenings growing dusky and into the darkness of winter, the work begins to shine, lifting its watchers from darkness into light.

Egil Martin Kurdøl

A root from the tree that the work is based on is cleaved by a gypsum wall. Or is the root pushing through the gypsum? The work is a continuation of a series where the artist is building a relationship between nature and the industrial that is not built on the traditional juxtaposition but instead, on the possibilities set by both to each other and to third parties, in the spirit of political nonalignment. The nonalignment pact refers thus to the political positioning of the 1950s in between the great powers.

Maria Panínguak` Kjærulff

The work taking a stand towards the climate change is a future flash into the past. An eternal igloo is built of stone that will not melt. A perennial Greenlandic white flower grows around the work; and a myth from time immemorial is connected to picking it up: do not pick the flower, so that it will not begin to rain. Amidst big trees, the igloo is like a holy place of nature.

Linus Ersson

Peek into the mailbox of the work and grab yourself instructions how to enjoy nature. As it is so easy for modern man to forget it. Ersson has sketched a romantic nature idyll with his paintings and constructions. The work composed of details contains all the elements that you need for a perfect nature experience.