This symbol is the theme of Pekka Kauhanen’s most recent sculptures. He has made a small army of child-size male suits from aluminium and bronze patinated in different ways. Like their models, these pieces express with reduced means various moods, attitudes, and the possible persons that could wear the suits. Pekka Kauhanen is an absolute master of his generation in terms of the classic virtues of sculpture. He is truly able – with his hands – to create forms at once realistic and abstract, permitting the sculpture’s own essence to rise above its model and to capture within itself some age-old, shared and permanent nobility, a sculptural quality that cannot be achieved by mechanical means.