Vladimir Zorin
Home of wind
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Alfio Bonanno
The first impulse to this work of art was given by a photograph where a tar-burning pit is being built, taken by Valto Pernu who had collected his fortune as a photographer working at the market place. The work combines thus the tradition of tar-burning pits of the area and a model of 19th century ‘Jähti’ ships of Ii. Combining these forms, the artist has created a communal place for people to sit in Hamina, whose history can be traced back as far as to the 14th century.
Jenni Tieaho
Jenni Tieaho, a visual artist from Siuntio, bent a horse out of willow, and the neighbouring boys called it ’Flame’. The very first Finnish horse of the country was also entered into a studbook in Ii. According to the artist, the willow growing in the river bed has been twined into the horse like the stories of its makers. ’Flame’ also reminds us of the fire of the old school of Kauppila from the ashes of which the Art Centre came into being in the hands of local artists.
Eyglò Harðardòttir
The Village welcomes guests arriving at the Art Centre. The artist wishes the work to live through leafs and water that its collects and lets flow slowly through itself. The sidewalls of the village parts have been painted with gentle residual colours that the artist has collected from the immediate surroundings of the work, with its meadow buttercups, birch leaves and the red walls of the old school building.