tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40081382971560247632012-01-24T22:35:58.830-08:00Casagrande & Rintala / Koli National Park, Finland 1999Marco Casagrandenoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008138297156024763.post-24828089420273307152008-12-09T22:07:00.001-08:002009-03-10T06:50:12.071-07:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hJf6EghW5a8/SXgU_82GHlI/AAAAAAAACkU/qI6Vl_thLfU/s1600-h/1000+White+Flags_Casagrande+%26+Rintala.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294004450871352914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 366px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hJf6EghW5a8/SXgU_82GHlI/AAAAAAAACkU/qI6Vl_thLfU/s400/1000+White+Flags_Casagrande+%26+Rintala.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hJf6EghW5a8/SXhsTsjHKxI/AAAAAAAACks/kCW_aVXh_HE/s1600-h/Casagrande+%26+Rintala.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294100447605762834" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 288px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hJf6EghW5a8/SXhsTsjHKxI/AAAAAAAACks/kCW_aVXh_HE/s400/Casagrande+%26+Rintala.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hJf6EghW5a8/SXgWAj6GbiI/AAAAAAAACkc/ExH7c4TI60Y/s1600-h/1000+White+Flags_Koli_Casagrande+%26+Rintala.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294005560868761122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hJf6EghW5a8/SXgWAj6GbiI/AAAAAAAACkc/ExH7c4TI60Y/s400/1000+White+Flags_Koli_Casagrande+%26+Rintala.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />A protest against the development of Finland's Koli National Park as a cross-country ski resort. In the summer of 2000, after collecting unwanted sheets from psychiatric hospitals around the country Casagrande &amp; Rintala made 1000 white flags to punctuate the verdant landscape of one ski-slope as a gesture of surrender to insanity. [1] The anarchic environmental art work won the first price of the national landscape art competition Settlement [2] and launched the natural restoration process of the national park's ancient forests. [3]<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hJf6EghW5a8/SXhtZ8slVrI/AAAAAAAACk0/3mmbKF8i_XI/s1600-h/1000+White+Flags_Casagrande+%26+Rintala_Koli,+2000.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294101654531298994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 399px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hJf6EghW5a8/SXhtZ8slVrI/AAAAAAAACk0/3mmbKF8i_XI/s400/1000+White+Flags_Casagrande+%26+Rintala_Koli,+2000.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">^ [1] - Small Town Networks Conference: The Presentation of Environment(al) Art in the Town of Lieksa Contemporary -Apr 2006<br />^ [2] - Nathalie Pozzi: Casagrande &amp; Rintala - ARCH'IT Nov 2001 (Italian)<br />^ [3] - Anna-Mari Tyyrilä: Kolin kulttuuriprojekti nousee - Kuntalehti 3/2001 (Finnish)</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4008138297156024763-2482808942027330715?l=1000whiteflags.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Marco Casagrandenoreply@blogger.com0