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Erkki Pekkarinen\u2019s Bark Giant<\/h1>
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Asikkala-based ITE artist Erkki Pekkarinen<\/em> is a master of scale and has made both the smallest (3.7 millimetres) birch bark shoes in the world and the largest (2.7 metres).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is perhaps his largest work, a gigantic five-metre bark man, stands in front of Hotel Tallukka in Vääksy, keeping an eye on the traffic on Highway 24. The bark man’s ‘little brother’ is located at the reception in the hotel lobby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the artist’s bio<\/a> on our website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An interview with the artist<\/a> on our YouTube channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Images: Juho Haavisto, Raija Kallioinen, ITE art surveys<\/a>, ITE art in Häme (2019-2022), MSL<\/p>\n\n\n

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ADDRESS <\/strong>Tallukantie 1, Vääksy
MORE INFORMATION<\/strong> See Hotel Tallukka’s website<\/a> for information about the artist and his bark giant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: Raija Kallioinen, MSL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Asikkala-based ITE artist Erkki Pekkarinen is a master of scale and has made both the smallest (3.7 millimetres) birch bark shoes in the world and the largest (2.7 metres). What is perhaps his largest work, a gigantic five-metre bark man, stands in front of Hotel Tallukka in Vääksy, keeping an eye on the traffic on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4445,"template":"","destination_target":[325,321],"destination_opening":[345],"destination_type":[355],"class_list":["post-14456","destination","type-destination","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","destination_target-hame","destination_target-southern-finland","destination_opening-whenever","destination_type-public-sculpture-group"],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":14456,"fi":7818},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination\/14456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/destination"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination\/14456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22620,"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination\/14456\/revisions\/22620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"destination_target","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination_target?post=14456"},{"taxonomy":"destination_opening","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination_opening?post=14456"},{"taxonomy":"destination_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination_type?post=14456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}