Nissbackan kartanon veistospuisto - Nissbacka Manor Sculpture Park

Since 1985, he has been working on a total art work / sculpture park featuring monumental-sized granite and bronze sculptures in a 16th-century manor park.

"The Nissbacka Manor's Sculpture Park is a composite piece of art, the central parts of which are the manor's core area known from the 1540s with large-sized hardwoods and the remaining economic buildings, the will and history of 24 consecutive owners, the botanical power of the area combined with the sculptural collection of sculptural content, some of which is created from the philosophical content to comment on the artwork itself. . " - Laila Pulta, 2012

The exhibition is open on Wednesdays 12-18 and on Sundays 12-16, entrance to the area is 5 €. On Sundays admission is included in the collection at 14.00. For groups by agreement, also in English.

Nissbacka's other collection consists of Laila Pullinen's works from 1955-2013, starting with early literary workshops, and ending with bronze sculptures in monumental stone / bronze sculptures using Finnish granite. The area also features two works by the artist's large-scale country relic and sculpture “Kulku” (1995), sculptured by the sculptor Matti Peltokangas.

ENTRY: € 5, children under 15 free.

Presentations to groups on booking, including outside opening hours (includes a 1.5 hour guided tour and a showcase collection).

CONTACT INFORMATION: Sotungintie 4, Vantaa. Buses 717, 717A and 718 from Helsinki Railway Station, pier 5. Stop "Sotungintie" (V9425).

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND BOOKS: +358 (0) 40-5859031 or jean_at_nissbacka.com

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Sculptures from 1955 to 2013 by Finnish sculptor, Professor Laila Pulta. Open from June 1st to September 1st, on Wednesdays 12 noon until 6 PM, and Sundays 12 noon until 4 PM. There is a free guided tour at 3 PM on Sundays (please call in advance). Tours for groups.

The park, in operation since 1985.

ADMISSION: 5 €, children under 15 free admission.

Groups are welcome, but please book in advance.

ADDRESS: Sotungintie 4, Vantaa. Buses 717, 717A and 718 from the Railway Square in Helsinki, 11th Look out for the stop "Sotungintie" (V9425).

INFORMATION, BOOKING ETC: +358 (0) 40-5859031 OR jean_at_nissbacka.com

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PRESS RELEASE Released immediately

Laila Pulta in memoriam - The Last Works at the Ateljee Gallery of the Nissbacka Manor Sculpture Park 1.6-1.9.2016

Created on Christmas Eve 2014, one of the first long articles in the magazine was "Nissbacka - a cloud castle that refuses to evaporate", where Laila Pulta and her son Jean Ramsay dealt very openly with the Nissbacka manor's sculpture park, its past and future. Creating a culture Creat wanted to respect the memory of Laila Pullinen by organizing a memorial exhibition in his gallery room at Albertinkatu on the half-day of the death of the sculptor. This exhibition will go to the studio gallery of the Nissbacka Manor Sculpture Park in summer.

Last November, the Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts and Professor Laila Pulta (1933-2015), who also died, was also a distinguished drawer who, in his drawings and graphics, studied the key themes of his sculptures. However, these were not just preparatory steps for the sculptures, but rather an independent art, where the artist was able to return from time to time to the form solutions and compositions of already completed works, and to explore them further.

The memory exhibition is based on a series of graphics signed last summer, which was the last one for Laila Pullinen.

“This series has been made as part of the Salmela Art Center series of graphics, thanks to Tuomas Hoikkala. After seeing these works last summer, I felt it was important to make them an independent exhibition in a gallery in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, so that the audience would also see them, ”says Jean Ramsay, curator of the artist Nissbacka, based on Pullinen's production. "Now that exhibition became a memorial exhibition."

According to Ramsey, the series of five works signed in 2015 is exceptionally sophisticated and intact, even a lyrical beautiful piece in Pullinen's high-quality production.

“The way in which Laila in these contemplative and profound works seems to guide the viewer into the world of her works was impressed with me. As with the Chinese calligraphy masters, the use of Laila's line in these works deepens at many points near the top of the career. Particularly Herakles passionately saves Laila with such an essential gravitational theme - a strong Yin / yang-style circular relationship between earth and space, material and immaterial, in which power and counter-force build each other, "Ramsay describes.

Herakles (2015) builds on the title of the year 2002, which was purchased at the City Hall of Vantaa in connection with the renovation of your lobby sculpture completed in 2014.

The exhibition also presents Pullinen's latest miniature sculptures that utilize bronze and spectrolite, as well as Kalkstrand's white limestone favored by the artist in recent years: “Finnish marble”, as Pulta called it. None of the exhibition's sculptures have been shown in Helsinki before.

“Inverno returns to the themes of one of Laila's latest sculptures (2013) with two variations. While another emphasizes Kalkstrand's limestone-lean pink corporal physicality, another variation is the winter's graceful whiteness and forgetfulness. Graphics shows how Laila's works themselves contain everything; life and death. While in Heraklion there is the power and momentum of informism, Inverno is rather a question or a puzzle, a mystery that remains unanswered, ”Ramsay continues.

According to Ramsey, the purpose of the exhibition is to show that despite his high age, Pulta was in full force at the time of his death as a creative artist. In addition to more traditional lithographs, there are two examples of "photostat technology" developed by Pullis, where the graphic magazine takes as its starting point a photograph taken from the work, on which the artist emphasizes the forms of the work, as if underlining its themes. After rethinking, the themes of the works get deep through the artist's poetic mark.

The exhibition also features Nick Tulinen's photo of Pullinen and his last unnamed work, which was stolen from Nissbac's yard in September 2015. The work has not been found.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Jean Ramsay 040-5859031 jean@nissbacka.com

Nissbacka Manor Sculpture Park Sotungintie 4 01200 Helsinki nissbacka.com

Visiting hours: 1.6., Wed 12-18, Sun 12-16 Buses 717 and 718 (stop: Sotungintie)