Back to the Future
Artist Petri Ala-Maunus
Aleksis Kivi Comprehensive School, Porvoonkatu 2, 00510 Helsinki
Indoor Sculpture
Limited access: the work is available to view for the users of the premises only.
The work Back to the Future by Petri Ala-Maunus (born 1970) is hanging in the lobby of the renovated Aleksis Kivi School in Kallio. For this more than five-metre tall oil painting, Ala-Maunus has created a collage-like combination of images from forest landscapes of the renaissance era.
The artist himself explains that the work is a part of the tradition of representing ‘ wild, untouched nature’. The school’s location in Kallio also influenced the idea behind the work. To experience a true forest, one must travel further away from the inner city. With his work, the artist wanted to create a counterpoint to the built environment, a reminder of something else.
The work belongs to the City of Helsinki’s art collection, which is managed and curated by HAM.