The 3D painting at the bottom of the pool looks different depending on where you look at it. Here is a preliminary sketch of the view of the rapids from the direction of Valtionhotelli.

A 3D artwork will be painted in Inkerinaukio's pool

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4.6.2018 19:14
Visual artist Ville Huhtanen and his team paint a rapids view, a norpa and a drop of water

The maintenance painting of Inkerinaukio is about to begin. In the same context, a 3D artwork created by an artist from Imatra will be created on the bottom of the pool Ville Huhtanen and university of applied sciences students Simo Vartiainen ja Eppu Isotalo.

- It is a piece of urban art that fills the entire pool. The work has three views, depending on which direction you look at it. Hopefully this will become an iconic landmark, says Huhtanen.

Viewed from the Valtionhotelli, the artwork opens up as a rapids landscape with rock holes and flowing water.

When you look at the end of Restaurant Kuohu from the pool, a norpa is paddling in the water.

The third view is a drop falling into water.

― This is a gift to the townspeople, as we now celebrate Imatra's 70th anniversary as a town and city, chairman of the party working group Tea Laitimo says.

Creating a new piece requires a little patience from pool lovers. The work will be ready by the Imatranajai, i.e. the first weekend of July. In other words, the pool has to be kept dry until there.

In the future, the second fountain nozzle in the pool has to be held in order to get a proper view of the bottom of the rapids as a 3D image, when the water creates its own challenge for three-dimensionality. The second nozzle of the fountain is switched on after the painting is finished, so the fountain is not completely left out.

The artists hope that the artwork will bring added value also in autumn and spring, when there is no water in the pool. Ville Huhtanen hopes that the work could also be illuminated.

He has been thinking about this kind of artwork for several years with a few people.

- I have been interested in making a public artwork in the city center for a long time.

Making the artwork will cost 10 euros. If there is any paint left over, Huhtanen, Vartiainen and Isotalo will plan something similar for the Koskipuisto pool as well.

Inkerinaukio's summer flowers will be planted on June 13.6. The flower towers and dishes will come in midsummer week.

 

For more information:

Chair of the party working group, contact director Tea Laitimo, tel. 020 617 2212, teaatimatra.fi

Visual artist Ville Huhtanen, vhuhtanen(at)gmail.com

 

The 3D work looks different when viewed from different angles. The bottom of the riverbed manifests the flow of water in the rocks.