Kain Tapper
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 in Suomussalmi.[4]
References[]
- ^ A Universal Finn by Peter Schjeldahl. An essay on Tapper's work.
- ^ Finnish Culture (brief reference).
- ^ All that glitters in Helsinki thisisFINLAND
- ^ Biography of Ilmari Kianto (brief reference to Tapper's sculpture of Kianto).
Categories:
- Finnish artist stubs
- European sculptor stubs
- 1930 births
- 2004 deaths
- People from Saarijärvi
- Modern sculptors
- 20th-century Finnish sculptors
- Recipients of the Prince Eugen Medal