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Airplanes now departing from deep in the woods
Published: 25 July, 2009, 19:44
Going against the CGI effects of today, a group of artists and architects are in a remote Russian forest in the Kaluga region, some 200 kilometers south-west of Moscow, to literally take the 21st century back to nature.
The Land Art festival held in the remote Russian village of Nikola-Lenivets is all about objects made of wood and other natural materials, but this time artists decided to add a touch of techno to the exposition, pitting nature against technology. For instance, they have made an installation of an airport departures and arrivals board that even announces flights, though you cannot really board them in the middle of the woods!
“This is an artistic project of the highest quality,” said Tatyana Bokova, project coordinator from the European Commission.
 "In flames" – a work by "Project Russia" magazine editorial staff, Archstoyanie-2007 (image from www.arch.stoyanie.ru) |
Due to the abundance of space and materials in Russia this festival has become popular with foreign landscape artists arriving to Nikola-Lenivets to set up landscapes. Even cows in the village make up parts of landscape design.
You do not need to be a fine art expert to understand the installations because, as one artist put it, “you don’t have to explain art, you only need to enjoy it.”
Mattieu Gontier, landscape artist from “Atelier 710” says that Russia attracts people of his profession because it’s big, rich and beautiful:
“The big scale of the landscape is very interesting. In Belgium where I live it’s very small, and here it’s completely different and that’s very nice”.
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