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Art-Nooks
Today I went to the public art festival Art-Prospect . I walked around Liteiny. The organization, namely the navigation, is poor (no respect for the viewer). If you don’t have a map of the festival, if you don’t know where exactly everything is, then some exhibits simply won’t be found (later it turns out that there was no need to look, since they only work in the evening or don’t work at all).
“Prospect” sounds loud, in fact, all the exhibits and installations are shoved far into the courtyards (how much of a place can be called public?), while how far you need to go into the courtyards is not explained.
Some exhibits are so fused with their surroundings that without marks (and not a single exhibit had such marks) you won’t be able to figure it out right away. Whether this is good or bad, I find it difficult to say. The line between public art (which should, in theory, surprise with unexpected solutions and be designed for the passerby) and conceptual art at the festival is very blurred.
Some objects were already well known and were exhibited in gallery spaces. And what's the joke then? They took it out onto the street and it became public art? Is hanging paintings on the walls in a gateway public art? (When I was there, they were obscured by a truck. It turned out to be a good installation, by the way)
In general, on the one hand, if, like, “just walk” and search (“Oh, come here, I found it!”), then it’s probably interesting (in this the task of the festival “to revive courtyards” intersects with “Contemporary Art in a traditional museum"), and if you want to see something that cannot be missed, then, in my opinion, the effect is not achieved.
In general, of course, this is an interesting idea and it is very necessary for it to be developed in St. Petersburg.
From what I found, I liked the installation “Blue” by Terry Hardy. It is not clear why the author has flags in mind when the first association is with laundry that is drying, but there is a lively effect and it fits perfectly into the environment. And you really won't miss it if you see it.
( Photo report on the NCCA website )