Olavi Lanu

1989

Concrete

Blending in with the trees at Pikku-Vesijärvenpuisto park, five-metre-high Find depicts a tapering tree trunk. The work is also known by the title Natura morte. The concrete sculpture bears a striking resemblance to a real broken tree. Indeed, its appeal lies in that very fact: the sudden realisation of its artificiality, the unexpected encounter of art in a natural setting. Interrogating the boundary between art and natural object, the work involves a philosophical dimension and conveys more than would seem at first glance. The work’s shape is based on a sharply tapering tree that Lanu found on a bike ride in Miekkiö, from which he took a mould for the artwork.

A concrete sculpture placed in the park depicting the trunk of a tree tapering upwards.
Olavi Lanu, Find, 1989. Photo: Eetu-Pekka Heiskanen/Malva.

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Find

In Pikku-Vesijärvi Park. –

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