Helsinki Design Week
superKOLMEMEN
HELSINKI DESIGN WEEK 2016
KOLMENSEPÄNAUKIO, HELSINKI, FINLAND
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 in which people can gather, talk, dance, or simply relax. A cultural experience which extends the Finnish summer fever into the autumn, superKOLMEMEN also features programmes organised in collaboration with Helsinki Design Week.
superKOLMEMEN
HELSINKI DESIGN WEEK 2016
KOLMENSEPÄNAUKIO, HELSINKI, FINLAND
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 in which people can gather, talk, dance, or simply relax. A cultural experience which extends the Finnish summer fever into the autumn, superKOLMEMEN also features programmes organised in collaboration with Helsinki Design Week.
Credits:
Concept: Marco Canevacci, Yena Young
Team: Mirjam Dorsch, Stephanie Grönnert, Antonia Joseph, Julia Lipinsky, Simone Serlenga, Christoph Tettenborn
Photos & Video: Simone Serlenga
Sound: Marco Barotti, Marco Madia
Thanks to: Kari Korkman, Petra Majander, Reetta Turtiainen, Martina Wuoristo-Huhta