Geopard and Plato
2017
stainless steel
3,5 × 2,5 × 1,4 m
Kauppis-Heikki elementary school, Iisalmi
Geopard and Plato is a sculpture located at Kauppis-Heikki School in Iisalmi, on the yard facing the pupils’ entrances. The work features a geometric feline, the “Geopard”, climbing over a stack of regular polyhedra. Its character is a playful blend of animal fable and mathematical structure.
The Geopard is composed of triangular and square elements. Beneath it lie five of Plato’s solids — the regular polyhedra tetrahedron, hexahedron (cube), octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron — arranged overlapping and partly nested within one another.
