Thursday, January 1, 2009

Paavo Nurmi by Wäinö Aaltonen
















Lauri Luhta did a performance at the foot of this statue to welcome the new year. While waiting for him, I took some pictures of it. In Finland, this nationalistic style, uncomfortably close to the representative art of totalitarian regimes, is viewed as entirely unproblematic...

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