Weave, pigeons

After Stella Art Gallery organized the scenographic of Ilya Kabakov’s scenographic work, the confidence that not only the former Soviet monumentalists are suitable for something in a practical sense. Even figures of "tragically elitist" contemporary art are able to take a step towards the workers. Evidence is found more and more often. For example, I witnessed how the very fine October day seems to have visited the City of the city of the Moscow Metro Altufevo, a record number of journalists, art critics and people who are interested in modern art processes visited. Despite the fact that the station itself with its ascetic architectural and artistic solution, it would seem, is strongly not able to give any reason for the visit of such a brilliant community.

Of course, the matter was not in the station. Having risen to the surface, a variegated company reached the local park of culture and rest, where, walking along the leaves strewn with leaves around local attractions with experience, namely a parachute tower and a pond with a swan and a non -working fountain, the inhabitants of the Lianozovo area were at times riselessly in a kind of jumpsuit, who were blessed from crookedly sticks. They also launched small children to demonstrate miracles of tenacious on the wooden structures installed on the shore and lawns, most likely resembling skeletons of dinosaurs.

Both were not just a new design of the Lianozovsky Park, since it was also the works of the modern Moscow artist Nikolai Polis, who received an unprecedented contract from the leadership of the Swano (North-Eastern Administrative District) of Moscow. Polis is a noticeable character in the metropolitan art scene, if only because all the time produces something original and significant in size-at least for the “art arena”, even for “art Klyazma”. Among its co-authors are certainly numerous residents of the village of Nikolo-Lenice of the Kaluga region. The non -trivial creative team became famous for a variety of wicker objects, made mainly from the vine; The reference books are reported to the same time that in France from the grape trunks, the policeman made the figure of the god Vinelia Bahus. And in general, a lot of things in my life have gone through.

Another excursion address on the same day was the very beginning of the Altufevsky highway: there, the artist and his Nikolo-Lenvets colleagues are entrusted with the creation of a grand weaved triumphal arch leading to the newly created park at the mouth of the Likhoborka river. This is another victory of the SWAO officials in aesthetic self -education. Considering that in previous years, district administrations preferred to revel in Shilov’s style or support public undertakings like the museum Konstantin Vasiliev, a precedent was extremely important for modern Moscow art. Even two precedents.

10/20/2005 The material was published in the "newspaper" No. 200 of 10.22.2005.