Kain Tapper Explained

Kain Tapper (6 June 1930, in Saarijärvi – 17 August 2004) was a Finnish sculptor. He created works that are "remote", evoking things contemplated from a distance. Even when small, his pieces loom like menhirs, their massiveness imposing an inhuman scale.[1] He combined nature and natural phenomena, old folklore and modernism.[2] He epitomised the Informalist style in Finnish sculpture.[3] Tapper created a sculpture of Finnish poet Ilmari Kianto situated near Turja's Castle in Suomussalmi.[4]

References

  1. http://www.ilt.ca/quotes/tapper1.html A Universal Finn by Peter Schjeldahl.
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20041011052234/http://gvc03c26.virtualclassroom.org/Finland/Finland%20Culture.htm Finnish Culture
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20120328214330/http://finland.fi/public/default.aspx?contentid=180015&contentlan=2&culture=en-US All that glitters in Helsinki
  4. http://www.artist-info.com/cgi-bin/search/user_search.cgi?action=display_artist&ID=34261 Biography of Ilmari Kianto

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