Olavi Lanu (Governatorato di Vyborg, 1925 – Lahti, 2015)
A participant in the 1978 edition of the Venice Biennale titled Dallanaturaall’arte, dall’arteallanatura, OlaviLanu typically worked with perishable materials but, upon being invited to Celle, he decided to invent a technique to make his figures permanent. The site he chose is a strip of land near the lake that inspired him to create three figures, inspired by Scandanavian legend about protector spirits watching over bodies of water. During his stay, the artist worked in specially converted agricultural spaces, which functioned as a storeroom studio. Here he created frames made of wood and metal mesh, which served as the basis for the forms later completed with resin and ground green stone from Prato.
