Kain Tapper

{{short description|Finnish sculptor}}

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Kain Tapper (6 June 1930, in Saarijärvi – 17 August 2004) was a Finnish sculptor. He created works that are "remote", evoking things contemplated from a distance. Even when small, his pieces loom like menhirs, their massiveness imposing an inhuman scale.{{Cite web |title=ilt.ca A Universal Finn |url=http://www.ilt.ca/quotes/tapper1.html |access-date=2025-02-11 |website=www.ilt.ca}} He combined nature and natural phenomena, old folklore and modernism.[https://web.archive.org/web/20041011052234/http://gvc03c26.virtualclassroom.org/Finland/Finland%20Culture.htm Finnish Culture] (brief reference). He epitomised the Informalist style in Finnish sculpture.{{Cite web |date=2012-03-28 |title=All that glitters in Helsinki - thisisFINLAND: Events calendar |url=http://finland.fi/public/default.aspx?contentid=180015&contentlan=2&culture=en-US |access-date=2025-02-11 |archive-date=2012-03-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328214330/http://finland.fi/public/default.aspx?contentid=180015&contentlan=2&culture=en-US |url-status=dead }} Tapper created a sculpture of Finnish poet Ilmari Kianto which has been installed near Turja's Castle in Suomussalmi.[http://www.artist-info.com/cgi-bin/search/user_search.cgi?action=display_artist&ID=34261 Biography of Ilmari Kianto] (brief reference to Tapper's sculpture of Kianto).