Worldbuilding
Curator:
Vladimir Seleznyov
Participants:
Danil Akimov (Kaliningrad)
Gleb Ershov (Saint-Petersburg)
Evgeny Gavrilov (Novosibirsk)
Lera Lerner (Saint-Petersburg)
Vladimir Marin (Kaluga)
Svetlana Shuvayeva (Samara — Moscow) Andrei Syaylev (Samara)
Alyona Tereshko (Saint-Petersburg) Where the Dogs Run group (Ekaterinburg), ZhKP group (Nizhny Tagil)
ZIP group (Krasnodar)
as well as Nizhny Tagil citizens: Vitaly Cherepanov, Fyodor Kamenskikh, Stanislav Kharin, Zhanna Korznyakova, Lyubov and Alexander Nagovitsins
Vladimir Seleznyov
Participants:
Danil Akimov (Kaliningrad)
Gleb Ershov (Saint-Petersburg)
Evgeny Gavrilov (Novosibirsk)
Lera Lerner (Saint-Petersburg)
Vladimir Marin (Kaluga)
Svetlana Shuvayeva (Samara — Moscow) Andrei Syaylev (Samara)
Alyona Tereshko (Saint-Petersburg) Where the Dogs Run group (Ekaterinburg), ZhKP group (Nizhny Tagil)
ZIP group (Krasnodar)
as well as Nizhny Tagil citizens: Vitaly Cherepanov, Fyodor Kamenskikh, Stanislav Kharin, Zhanna Korznyakova, Lyubov and Alexander Nagovitsins
August 12 – September 30. 2017
Nizhny Tagil Museum-Reserve “Mining and Works Ural”. Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts
Nizhny Tagil Museum-Reserve “Mining and Works Ural”. Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts
“Worldbuilding” project opened in Nizhny Tagil on the Town Day and was presented at two venues. At the first venue, the workshop of the Nizhny Tagil Museum-Reserve “Mining and Works Ural” artists inhabited the monument factory, exploring its ruins and turning it into the “total relaxation room” that served as a metaphorical monument to the labor performed by the generations of people who had lived and worked here for 300 yeas: finally, they have got their long-overdue and well-deserved rest; a memory of their grateful descendants.
Everything that artists could find in the workshop could be and was used for artistic production. Here is an exhibition of posters made from real factory propaganda materials. Here is the tiled lining of the showers, turned into suprematic experiments with line and colour. Here are the tanks that were meant to transport molten metal that have become mini ponds for carp watching a documentary about steelmaking. Here cast iron castings are lined up in sculptural groups on the sand, reminiscent of a rock garden, but not a Japanese one, but a post-industrial Urals one.
The main object of "Worldbuilding" was the factory retort for steel, which was turned into an audio-visual installation. Illuminated in different colours, catching the glare from mirrors, it became a symbol of the "total relaxation room" that appeared after the factory.
The second venue is located at Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts. Among project participants are ordinary people, who do not consider themselves professional artists, but nonetheless practice a variety of creative pursuits. Together with contemporary artists they produce collaborative artworks.
"Worldbuilding" was a word used by Kazimir Malevich, one of the pillars of the avant-garde. For him, it meant the purity of human creative life. The Nizhny Tagil project "Worldbuilding" attempts to show this life in a region where the creation of something has long been a priority (even the hills in Nizhny Tagil are man-made - from waste dumps).
“Worldbuilding” project had a myth-generating mission: it is an attempt to imbue a place with new identity, using aesthetic experience to liberate it from the old one.
Everything that artists could find in the workshop could be and was used for artistic production. Here is an exhibition of posters made from real factory propaganda materials. Here is the tiled lining of the showers, turned into suprematic experiments with line and colour. Here are the tanks that were meant to transport molten metal that have become mini ponds for carp watching a documentary about steelmaking. Here cast iron castings are lined up in sculptural groups on the sand, reminiscent of a rock garden, but not a Japanese one, but a post-industrial Urals one.
The main object of "Worldbuilding" was the factory retort for steel, which was turned into an audio-visual installation. Illuminated in different colours, catching the glare from mirrors, it became a symbol of the "total relaxation room" that appeared after the factory.
The second venue is located at Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts. Among project participants are ordinary people, who do not consider themselves professional artists, but nonetheless practice a variety of creative pursuits. Together with contemporary artists they produce collaborative artworks.
"Worldbuilding" was a word used by Kazimir Malevich, one of the pillars of the avant-garde. For him, it meant the purity of human creative life. The Nizhny Tagil project "Worldbuilding" attempts to show this life in a region where the creation of something has long been a priority (even the hills in Nizhny Tagil are man-made - from waste dumps).
“Worldbuilding” project had a myth-generating mission: it is an attempt to imbue a place with new identity, using aesthetic experience to liberate it from the old one.
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