Eila Hiltunen: Gone heroes, 1982 (2006). © Photo: HAM Helsinki Art Museum Menneet ritarit / Gone heroes Artist Eila Hiltunen Pikkuparlamentin puisto, Helsinki The sculpture which stands in the park in front of the new Pikkuparlamentti (Small Parliament) was erected to celebrate both the centennial of the Parlament and the introduction of equal and universal suffrage and full political rights for women. The memorial Gone Heroes is from the year 1982 by the well-known female Finnish artist Eila Hiltunen. The free-standing rust-proof steel sculpture is on a granite pedastal. It’s abstract composition and shining steel surface makes the sculpture timeless and of somewhat umimposing influence. The idea for the sculpture came from a women’s organisation who made a suggestion to the Parliament in March 2003 that a sculpture should acknowledge the first 19 Finnish female MPs who were elected to Parliament in 1907. The text on the pedastal reads: MEMORIAL FOR THE EQUAL RIGHT TO VOTE 1906-2006 THE RIGHT TO VOTE – TRUST IN LAW ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF FINNISH DEMOCRACY The work doesn’t belong to the City of Helsinki’s art collection, which is managed by HAM. Read more.. At map
