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Street art funded by budget, sponsors and artists
In Yekaterinburg, creativity becomes the rule; everyone strives to imprint themselves in the urban space with artifacts that are talked about and written about.
Only some do it tastefully and at their own expense, while others do it at the expense of the budget and incomprehensible sponsorship contributions. For some, this is a source of inspiration, for others, another attempt at unscrupulous enrichment.
For a month now, Yekaterinburg residents have been admiring the art object of Timofey Radi ( http://www.obltv.ru/news/culture/art-abazhury_timofeja_radi_ostanutsa_na_prezhnem_meste/ ), who put lampshades on the city lamps.
Last week a “living” fountain was added to Radi’s project in the arboretum ( http://www.66.ru/news/society/131730/ ). These finds of Ural artists delight residents with their spontaneity, although they were carried out at the authors’ own expense.
The officials chose a completely different direction - they decided to “delight” the residents at the expense of the residents themselves. At the dam of the city pond, on the main street of Yekaterinburg, Lenin Avenue, having demolished under the cover of darkness the architectural group telling about the awarding of the regional center with the Order of Lenin, the mayor's office installed a countdown clock for Olympic time.
The clock shows the countdown to the opening of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi.
For this arbitrariness, the administration of Yekaterinburg was subject to an explosion of public discontent and a fine of 20,000 rubles issued by the Ministry of State Property Management of the Sverdlovsk Region. But the clock was launched on February 7, the dismantled group, according to officials, will return at the end of the Olympics, along with the dismantling of the clock ( http://www.gudok.ru/sujet/sochi-2014/news.php?ID=453990 ). The question remains unclear: who and how much money paid for the design and installation of the clock, ordered and paid the watchmakers for such a performance?
The street art of Yekaterinburg did not stop surprising.
By February 14, 6 ice sculptures and an illuminated carpet should appear at the main entrance to the Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theater. This work is performed by Maki LLC ( http://www.66.ru/news/freetime/131673/, http://makicompany.blogspot.ru/2013/02/www66ru.html ).
Its director Ilya Beketov refused to name the customer and the cost of the work, however, these works do not appear on the State Procurement website ( http://www.zakupki.dov.ru ). On February 16-17, the Bolshoi Theater is planning a tour of the theater, sponsored by Nespresso, as is clear from the poster ( http://www.uralopera.ru/afisha/show.php?annid=94 ), but I. Beketov talks about control over work on the part of theater workers. Theater forces are planned to guard this facility after its installation. It seems that in this way the theater management has once again found a way to improve their personal financial affairs, since financial questions to the theater management arise regularly.