superKOLMEMEN
Helsinki Design Week
Kolmensepänaukio, Helsinki, Finland, 2016
superKOLMEMEN is an urban intervention that pops up in one of Helsinki’s most popular meeting places: a city square featuring Felix Nylund’s emblematic 1932 sculpture Kolmen sepän (The Three Blacksmiths). Appearing for one week, the project (literally) embraces Nylund’s bronze statue while seeking to transform residents’ and visitors’ perception of the square.
Wrapped in its new environment, Nylund’s sculpture, which also provides the structural support without which this pneumatic architecture couldn’t exist, is endowed with a newfound lightness and seems to float above the square. It is a symbiotic work. The quotidian routines that play out in this central square are transformed as it becomes a playground where people can gather, talk, dance, or simply relax. A cultural experience that extends the Finnish summer fever into autumn, superKOLMEMEN also features programmes organised in collaboration with Helsinki Design Week.
Artist
Marco Canevacci and Yena Young (Plastique Fantastique)
Curator
Kari Korkman
Plastique Fantastique Team:
Mirjam Dorsch, Stephanie Grönnert, Antonia Joseph, Julia Lipinsky, Christoph Tettenborn
Photos & Video:
Simone Serlenga
Sound:
Marco Barotti, Marco Madia
Thanks to:
Petra Majander, Reetta Turtiainen, Martina Wuoristo-Huhta
