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Hope

Antti Arkoma

Päiväkoti Toivo, Apteekkarinraitti 8, 00790 Helsinki

Indoor Sculpture

Suspended over the daycare centre’s dining room is a large sculpture that looks a bit like a lizard. Entitled Hope, this work by Antti Arkoma (b. 1961, Helsinki) spans two opposing walls and creates a kind of bridge across the space. The piece is made of aluminium bars bent by hand. Its form is symmetrical, with four long limbs extending outward from the elongated body. Perceived as lines, the sculpture is also transparent.

The artist says: “Keywords for the sculpture include bridge, lizard, insect, arch and grid. The material and structure of the piece are to some extent ‘hard’. I’ve used organic variation of form and welding irregularities to give the work a playful sense of randomness. Keeping itself aloft with its ‘paws’, the sculpture acts as a protecting bridge.”

The work was produced under the Percent for Art programme, and it belongs to the collection of the City of Helsinki, managed by HAM Helsinki Art Museum.

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