Kain Tapper

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Kain Tapper in the early 1950s.

Kain Tapper (6 June 1930, in Saarijärvi – 17 August 2004) was a Finnish sculptor. He created works that are "remote", evoking things contemplated from a distance. Even when small, his pieces loom like menhirs, their massiveness imposing an inhuman scale.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He combined nature and natural phenomena, old folklore and modernism.<ref>Finnish Culture (brief reference).</ref> He epitomised the Informalist style in Finnish sculpture.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Tapper created a sculpture of Finnish poet Ilmari Kianto which has been installed near Turja's Castle in Suomussalmi.<ref>Biography of Ilmari Kianto Template:Webarchive (brief reference to Tapper's sculpture of Kianto).</ref>

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