STAR GUEST Päivi Pitkäniitty: Evolution – from print file to glass and the wall of the Kuopio University Hospital

476 image files and approximately 1500 m2 of glass go through many machines and pairs of hands in the factory. The process starts on the image processor’s table. The image files over a metre wide and nearly three metres long are converted by digital colour separation into the colour space of our ceramic colours. In […]

STAR GUEST Jouni Tossavainen: On Poemstone on Runeberg’s day

It was only possible to fit simple and easily interpretable signs on my parents’ gravestone. The four sides of the Poemstone, four stone plates, were haunting, the frame was constricted and the letters heavy as a priest’s tone. Earlier it was easy to waste paper, but to scratch the same bits into black granite ‒ […]

Toward the new with the force of evolution!

The decision process that took years has now reached its conclusion: the Evolution artwork will be built onto the façade of building 2 of the Kuopio University Hospital in all its glory. The work will be about 1600 m² in surface area. It will work as a sunscreen and thus also as an energy saver. […]

Pop-up art or a permanent artwork?

Pop-up art pops up somewhere, is there for a while, and then goes away. Its purpose is to be temporary, arouse interest and questions and stir people in the middle of everyday routine. One need not become fond of pop-up art; its mission is elsewhere.  A permanent artwork, in turn, stays put, even if its […]

Evolution – man’s inner beauty as a sun visor

Physicians are a privileged lot. Many of them enjoy man’s inner beauty daily. Some cut it with a surgeon’s sharp knife, others look at the spatial forms of cells through a microscope. Award-winning surgeon Juhani Kouri of the Kuopio University Hospital is at present doubly the enjoyer of man’s inner beauty. A model piece of […]