Travel News: Lux Helsinki’s Pink Caravan Installation
Travel News: Lux Helsinki’s Pink Caravan Installation
Lux Helsinki – The Light is Loose: 4–8 January 2013
Reflections Light Designer Mikki Kunttu Light festival – Photo by Ralph Larmann
One of the main attractions of the city event Lux Helsinki 2013 will be Pink Caravan by light artist Ainu Palmu. Pink Caravan is a travelling light installation that will light up a different object on each night of the event. The light art can also be enjoyed during Lux Helsinki with guided walking tours. The work of setting up all the light installations will begin gradually after Christmas and the New Year, when all the artists will be in Finland and available in advance for interviews.
Pink Caravan paints the town pink
Pink Caravan colours buildings throughout the city centre pink. The final result can be enjoyed for one night only before the caravan moves on to its next target. The pink installation is accompanied by specially composed music. Pink Caravan was inspired by light artist Ainu Palmu’s desire to paint the town pink – to create a playful and joyful atmosphere in Helsinki by transforming grey public institutions into something rather more pink and welcoming.
Travel News: Lux Helsinki’s Pink Caravan Installation
The Pink Caravan will make its first stop on the opening day of Lux Helsinki, Friday 4 January, when it lights up the main façade of the Finnish National Theatre facing Railway Square. Each following target will revealed on the preceding evening at 10pm on the Lux Helsinki website and Facebook.
Find out more about the light installations with a guided walking tour
Guided walking tours will be offered throughout Lux Helsinki, allowing participants to find out more about the fascinating light installations. The tours will be offered from Friday 4 January to Tuesday 8 January and depart from the statue of Alexander II in Senate Square. Tours in Finnish will depart at 5:30pm and additional tours in Finnish, Swedish, English and Russian at 6:30pm. Each walking tour covers a distance of around three kilometres and lasts for approximately two hours. Participants are advised to wear warm clothing and good walking shoes.
Each guided tour is offered free of charge on a first come, first served basis to the first 20 persons holding tickets, which can be picked up in advance from Tourist Information (Pohjoisesplanadi 19).
Light installations to be set up during the holidays – artists arrive in Finland
The work of setting up all the light installations will begin gradually after Christmas and the New Year as the artists arrive in Helsinki. Representatives of the media have the opportunity to see the light installations being set up in advance. The artists themselves will also be available for interviews. Lux Helsinki 2013 features works by the German artist couple Casa Magica, Twinsen Ho from Hong Kong, French-Serbian Nicolas Jargic, Philippe Morvan from France and Dan Shorten from Great Britain, as well as Finnish artists Mika Haaranen, Jukka Huitila, Jenni Kääriäinen, Heikki Paasonen, Ainu Palmu, Jani-Matti Salo and Nina Wathén.
For more information about all 13 light installations and their creators, visit: www.luxhelsinki.fi
Lux Helsinki is a free-of-charge event organised by the City of Helsinki.
If You Go:
Lux Helsinki – The Light is Loose
4–8 January 2013 (Friday-Tuesday)
Locations in and around Senate Square and Töölönlahti Bay in Helsinki
The installations can be viewed generally between 4pm and 10pm
Free admission
