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This toy kit uses the materials traditional for «haute art».
This is the archetype of a toy, and it resists to making the game personages more specific:
each player endues it with his or her own story and a diverse scale of emotions.
Toy kits represent main forms of human activity, and among them the art of healing is one of the most important and significant. Plastic surgery: the highest form of selection, seeking to achieve symbiosis of the natural and the technogenic. Blending the man and a useful mechanism. Scooter-man, Off-roader-man: the toy is highly responsive to life realia. |
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| We spill the figures from the box, and dispose them on a table or on the floor, each time in a different way.
In these endless reshuffles, in the diversity of game combinations we reveal the very soul of the «small human space». |
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| «Woodcutters from Sergiev Posad started to produce toy soldiers after the French were defeated in 1812, and these toys were amazingly popular during the next 100 years.» |
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Toy soldiers, second half of the 19 century, Sergiev Posad, lime tree, wood cutting, painting, height from 7 to 23 cm |