The design put forward by Swedish artist Eva Löfdahl has won a competition for a statue to entrepreneurship to be erected in the new Kamppi Center in downtown Helsinki.
The results of the competition were announced on Monday in connection with the 9th holding of Finnish Enterprise Day, an event arranged by the Federation of Finnish Enterprises.
Löfdahl's statue Leverty, which is to be erected in the square adjoining the new bus terminal and shopping precinct in Kamppi a year from now, is a six-metre high sculpture that combines an airy net-like structure and a black stone block.
For the net structure, the artist has made use of the tessellated patterns developed by British mathematician and physicist Sir Roger Penrose, in which the impression of a three-dimensional structure can be derived using only two dimensions. The work is expected to cost around EUR 300,000 to bring to fruition.
All six of the final entries in the competition are on display until September 16th in the Kamppi Terminal.
