DISCO GIRLS Ceiling- & wall mounted mechanical tiger heads. Nightclub Tiger, Helsinki, Finland. Stefan Lindfors 2009. Photo: Minna Metsrinne Helsinki night club “LUX" changed concept & name to "Tiger" in the spring of 2009. (Lindfors had previously created a sculpture "LUX", a shining sphere, for this top floor club in the absolute centre of Helsinki, and his "planet" was to remain in place regardless of the new club.) Club owner Sedu Koskinen had visualized a huge tiger in the ceiling of the new dance floor of the new “Tiger" club, but Lindfors said the tiger simply couldn't be “huge" enough, since there wasn't enough height. He proposed large-sized tiger heads instead. Lindfors designed and built two tiger heads with mechanical movements, one in the ceiling of the dance floor and the other on the wall (compare with traditional stuffed heads of game) above the entrance to the dance hall. He called his two works the "Disco Girls, Dina & Donna". The essence of the concept was the mechanical "toy"-kind-of quality of the heads, not the sculptural work itself. "If you've got the skills of a traditional sculptor and you know how to weld, then it's not a problem to construct tiger-looking tiger heads! If it's art there must be another quality: I made the Tigers as MACHINES, and that's what's interesting.” Said Lindfors at the unveiling night. Tiger heads with turning necks and closing jaws. Welded and chromed steel sheet & steel round stock, electrical motors and led lights. Lindfors' partners in construction were Harri Ojala and Tomi Syrjä....