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Concept and general supervsion: Nikolay Polissky. Technical support: Mikhail Bulanenkov. Project curator: Aleksandr Panov. This project was realized in the framework of the «Art-Klyazma» Festival in August-September 2003 on the territory of the «Klyazminskoye Vodokhranilitsche» holiday hotel, assisted by the «Ugra» National Park, and supported financially by Kamal Lebedev, Irina Subbotina, and Igor Kireev. | ||
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Authors: Vassily Akinkin, Mikhail Barkov, Andrey Belov, Viktor Belyaev, Ekaterina Belyaeva,
Mikhail Bulanenkov, Yuri Vasin, Maksim Godovikov, Aleksey Godovikov, Elena Godovikova, Evgueny Golubtsov, Serguey Gribkov, Viktor Zabaluyev,
Evgueny Zelensky, Aleksandr Zelensky, Pavel Zelensky, Nikolay Kazakov, Andrey Kindinov, Igor Kireev, Vladislav Klyuchnikov, Serguey Klyuchnikov,
Vitaly Kondrashov, Vassily Kopeiko, Aleksandr Krepak, Viktor Matkovsky, Svetlana Matkovskaya, Evgueny Matkovsky, Yulia Matkovskaya, Vladimir Mozgunov,
Dmitry Mozgunov, Natalya Mozgunova, Ekaterina Murashova, Aleksey Novikov, Yuri Novikov, Aleksander Panov, Igor Parygin, Ivan Parygin, Maria Parygina,
Nikolay Polissky, Denis Seregin, Aleksandr Serov, Serguey Serov, Natalya Serova, Evguenia Serova, Ivan Sokolov, Aleksandr Stozharov, Elena Khmeleva,
Vassily Tschetinin, Anna Tschetinina |
| The «Art-Bazaar» Project is some vague mix of an elegant multifarious installation created by peasants’ hands,
a digestive performance for the guests who devour common-folk food cooked in front of them, and an ingenuous «reality show», in which the villagers
of Nikola Lenivets, a Kaluga village moved to Moscow Oblast take part, the show that includes taking a bath in a semitransparent camp-banya on the waterbed
bank as an integral part of the «Big Brother» tradition. As a unique case, the life of the Nikola Lenivets villagers who have assisted to Nikolay Polissky, «a Russian land artist», in creating his landscape objects for a long time is totally given to Art. Gradually these voluntary (though concerned financially) colleagues of Polissky have got the grasp of the art, and the initiatives of the Moscow guest are not treated as the barin’s extravagances: ill-advised landlord Troekurov turned into Dubrovsky, the Russian Robin Hood. Sidekicks became insiders, and the new creation of the Nikola Lenivets cooperative is represented as a product of collective authorship. The idea is quite simple: the peasants weave improvised dwellings for themselves (some shaped as Alexander the Great’s caravan, some as a Formula-1 bolide) and live in them during the whole festival in front of the eyes of the astonished audience; they cook food and invite everyone willing to join. Not free, certainly, since this new socio-economical utopia that interweaves Life and Art is also a commercial project, which should help its creators to survive in the forsaken village. This is the «profit art», eminently. This is also an ironic answer to the main question of the Russian art life: what’s cooking on the art market? There may be no market. But there is the art bazaar: with lambs, chickens, pickled mushrooms, and moonshine hooch. Kinda. Fyodor Romer | |
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Wicker things To make wicker containers for apples, wicker beer baskets, fishing tackle, cradles for newly-borns the masters used unscraped twigs. Travelling wicker baskets were of 2 kinds: made of scraped unsplitted twigs and made of scraped splitted twigs. |
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