In Venice, opened Russia’s “Green Pavilion” – BBC

The “Green Pavilion” Russian artist Irina Nakhova opened the 56th Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art, says TASS .

The architecture of the Russian pavilion, built in 1914, designed by Alexey Shchusev, according to the artist, for it was the starting point in the creation of the project. In part, the artist returned to the pavilion to the original architectural plan, repainted in ocher green.

According to the artist, her “Green Pavilion” consists of different sensations that a person experiences during sleep. “I wanted to guide the pilot was our own feelings when there is no sound, only visual contact, which awakens to watch and not say,” – says Nakhova.

Most of the time the audience is carried out in a completely dark room “in the stage of deep sleep.” In the pavilion there is a “nightmare room” in red and green colors, which symbolically depicts global disaster.
On the first floor of the pavilion Nakhova is also the country’s history through the personal archive of his family, thus developing the theme of the “Untitled” for which she won the “Kandinsky Prize”.

With the project “Green Pavilion” Russia among 88 countries claim to be the “Golden Lion” for the best national exhibition.