Russian Artists Turn Natural Landscape into Art Gallery
- 13 years ago
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A Russian land-artist creates large-scale art objects in a rural area with the help of young locals. Nikolay Polissky and his fellow artists are gaining international attention for their larger-than-life artistic statements.
A huge wooden lighthouse near a river, a giant beehive tower in the middle of a Russian field and a big iron bird in the woods - all of these objects which amaze locals and passers-by in a Russian provincial village were built by artists some 186 miles away from Moscow.
Russian architect Vasily Schetinin came to the Nikola-Lenivets village in Russia's Kaluga region at the end of the 1980s with an idea to build a home for artists where they could live and create their objects using natural landscape.
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One of them, Nikolay Polissky, who moved to the village in 2000, decided to quit painting and become a landscape artist.
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In ten years the artists have built dozens of constructions and have turned the majority of Nikola-Lenivets residents into a creative community.
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Since 2000 Polissky has participated in a number of art exhibitions around the world and made it to the short-lists of several prestigious art prizes, like the Kandinsky prize in 2009.
Starting from 2003 he organized the annual "ArchStoyanie" landscape art festival in Nikola-Lenivets, with Russian and foreign artists taking part, which attracts hundreds of people each year.
With wooden installations featuring unearthly creatures Polissky's strange land became a sort of Utopia for artists and local citizens.
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[Dmitry Mozgunov, Polissky's Assistant]:
"Most of all I like that each day is not the same as others, there is always something new, new ideas, so the mind does not stop at one thing, it (this work) broadens your mind."
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A Russian land-artist creates large-scale art objects in a rural area with the help of young locals. Nikolay Polissky and his fellow artists are gaining international attention for their larger-than-life artistic statements.
A huge wooden lighthouse near a river, a giant beehive tower in the middle of a Russian field and a big iron bird in the woods - all of these objects which amaze locals and passers-by in a Russian provincial village were built by artists some 186 miles away from Moscow.
Russian architect Vasily Schetinin came to the Nikola-Lenivets village in Russia's Kaluga region at the end of the 1980s with an idea to build a home for artists where they could live and create their objects using natural landscape.
[...]
One of them, Nikolay Polissky, who moved to the village in 2000, decided to quit painting and become a landscape artist.
[...]
[...]
In ten years the artists have built dozens of constructions and have turned the majority of Nikola-Lenivets residents into a creative community.
[...]
Since 2000 Polissky has participated in a number of art exhibitions around the world and made it to the short-lists of several prestigious art prizes, like the Kandinsky prize in 2009.
Starting from 2003 he organized the annual "ArchStoyanie" landscape art festival in Nikola-Lenivets, with Russian and foreign artists taking part, which attracts hundreds of people each year.
With wooden installations featuring unearthly creatures Polissky's strange land became a sort of Utopia for artists and local citizens.
[[...]
[...]
[Dmitry Mozgunov, Polissky's Assistant]:
"Most of all I like that each day is not the same as others, there is always something new, new ideas, so the mind does not stop at one thing, it (this work) broadens your mind."