The local general store Polissky turned into an art object. Photo by the author
In the Kaluga region was the X Festival of landscape objects “Archstoyanie.” Who lost control of the project in financial terms is in a difficult position. But the situation has returned here Polissky Nicholas, who came up with the festival, and in recent years by him and his policy of distancing and showed new objects separately. Over the weekend, “Archstoyanie” gathered about 6 thousand. Visitors, and most importantly, it all turned back to the roots and to what is called site-specific art.
In the afternoon the rain poured Zvizzhi good, but then the game high sky contrasts – there are still gray storm clouds, and here the sun and break through the white cotton clouds blue. Against this background, the sky high cost of four new object. “The Museum of the rural labor” Sergey Choban and Agnes Sterligova marks the entrance to the village, as once the entrance to the nearby Nicola sloth, where “Archstoyanie” began, said the installation “The boundaries of the Empire” of Polissky. Museum similar to the boundary post, and grounded at the same time with a massive column, but remember Doric capitals, and stretched a lot taller than a man village well. Inside, as in the ancient temples, Oculus, Open Skies, which is responsible happening bright glare on the wall of the circular tower, inside which hang guns rural labor. Around – field specially sown Polissky potatoes. Sergey Choban advised not to travel to Tuscany, and here. Adding, however, that’s just the road … In general, the installation could be a good and 300 m of the road.
The road to the Oculus (this is the eye, the eye) tied Alexey Kozyrev in his “Belvedere Zvizzhskom” – made from flour haulage bus stop with eyes made of colored glass. Present “Archstoyanie” generally returns to its roots is not just a landscape objects, which are so much in recent years has been delivered to Nikola-sloths, and often without any reference to the terrain, and turns it over to the site-specific art. Moreover, for what you need to go here. Boundary post, stopping (according to the release, the meeting place for young people), decorated in the spirit of Archpoint arok- “shells” of the Sydney Opera House, the entrance to the local recreation center Zvizzhi: entrance into a spacious wooden house is now crowned with a sort of portal (in silhouette – half arch) also, of course, wood and to effectively outline sdvigami- “jagged.” But the main thing here now – Selpo. Local grocery, 20 years stood in ruins, Nikolai Polissky again turned into the dominant landscape and life, making it look like a medieval castle with turrets. The castle, however, established on the basis of a shish kebab, as he called it himself “Uncle Kolya” (the artist has long been called here so) planted to frame bars, pieces of wood, why it rough texture, good game in different lighting conditions.
Polissky Previous work in this area, on the edge of Nicola sloth was Beaubourg, ironic variation on the theme is also called as the Pompidou Center with its “trousers” pipes left-communications. Beaubourg – one of the centers of Parisian life and his Beaubourg appeared in the Kaluga region. However, the center of village life, of course, there is also Prodmag, this axiom artist, I think that now, too, had in mind. Moreover, as in many of his works, claiming the terrain something to respond to global architecture and tradition. In Nicola Lenivets he put up a huge, lace woven from twigs Lighthouse, put there “Universal Mind”, reminding outlandish domed church, made up of interlocking convolutions like – a lot of examples.
«Archstoyanie expands its boundaries, moving into the territory of a neighboring village Zvizzhi” – says the festival newspaper four-lane. Moving this is due to how it can be understood with the fact that the conversion of “art park Nikola-slothful” Maxim Nogotkova more land they are not funded, the management company is closed. Financial point – painful, and cultural events, from which the sponsors continue to wait for the impact of material, too, but it seems that “Archstoyanie”, invented at the time Polissky, in the artistic sense, it was good for. Creatively, we recall, the artist moved away from the festival, to orient it to the benefit of tourism and travel policies, and recent years, its new installations represented separately, to “Archstoyanie.” The festival invited different guests, brought in Nikola-slothful trendy cafes – something without which, apparently, is not easy one weekend live town guests. But with all that’s good, this site-specific-component somehow weathered, lacking the main, some bar or raisins, whatever you call. There were lectures, concerts, and now all that remained, but does not obscure the basic, architectural venture and playing with local materials. What can only be seen here, and that is rooted in the local landscape. This year is the same specificity returned. Towers “medieval” a Soviet Selpo look at the sky. On the streets of Central Village Zvizzhi residents pitched tents with gooseberry pies, pumpkins, there are also deer, wild boars, wooden bird – Nikola-Lenivets handicrafts, replicas of objects Polissky and treated at a local cafe cherry jam and runs chubby puppy Bagel.
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