Wooden People

Aimo Katajamäki

The Wooden People sculpture installation was revealed in the lobby of the Parliament’s annex in 2006. The work won the competition. The installation consists of 11 portraits carved with an axe. The work describes the Finnish people, from poets to robbers, maidens to ministers (donkey). I see the work as a three-dimensional illustration executed in space.

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    Aimo Katajamäki, Finland (2013)

    Katajamäki is operating extensively across design, architecture and art field, in minimal and maximal scales. Katajamäki has his recognizable handwriting; vital, expressive and uncompromising visual expression. His ideas and art...

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    The Wooden People sculpture installation was revealed in the lobby of the Parliament’s annex in 2006. The work won the competition. The installation consists of 11 portraits carved with an axe. The work describes the Finnish people, from poets to robbers, maidens to ministers (donkey). I see the work as a three-dimensional illustration executed in space.

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    Aimo Katajamäki, Finland (2013)

    Katajamäki is operating extensively across design, architecture and art field, in minimal and maximal scales.
    Katajamäki has his recognizable handwriting; vital, expressive and uncompromising visual expression. His ideas and art come closer to a broader audience in the surfaces and the art work of public spaces. Katajamäki is also a sculptor, who has open-minded worked with different surfaces, materials and processes.
    His most well known international recognition in graphic design has been the Gold Award in Warsaw International Poster Biennale. Katajamäki’s ”Wooden people” sculpture installation is housed in an annex of Finnish Parliament. Aimo Katajamäki received the State Prize for Design 2013 together his wife interior architect Päivi Meuronen.
    Katajamäki works in his own design studio Aimonomia Oy.

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