Mariposa paisamor *
These words I found the next morning on the inner side of the gate, coming from the territory of "Project cul" to descend from the mountains to the beach. The weather was already common for these sites: the rain stopped and the temperature climbed to 21 degrees above zero. It became obvious that if the Canaries define the word "paradise", the "Mariposa projectors the culture" - a paradise obraenny.
But in order. Nikita evening, after seeing us, immediately retired to ponder in his little house on the hill and out of the darkness emerged Valery Koshlyakov, who cried: "And you're here like?" We have not seen for many years, but I well remember how he met with Koshlyakov, when he came to Moscow in the squat at Ustyinsky waterfront, and his work struck my fancy proximity to the hidden roots, resulting in, I suggested that it shines a bright future. Now he is one of the best selling abroad by Russian artists.
Koshlyakov said that the other project participants will arrive tomorrow. Severe gray German, Tony, like a former hippie, and his wife took us to the site a couple of tiers below, where there were three tents, which are called the wigwam, and placed in one of them. The next morning came, finally, Ivan stressed.
We are with Ivan too once met one of the squat where they lived and worked in artists, and a year ago, met by chance on the opening day. He told me that now lives and works in Tenerife, and invited guests. Then it became clear that in Moscow he is negotiating with the Ministry of Culture and selects artists to participate in "Artists of the World." I decided to use the information an excuse to visit the islands, about which heard that they are magical.
Ministry of Culture, recognizing the need to implement a seven Russian artists in a great place to make it more beautiful and to integrate their national contribution to world cultural context, has allocated 10 thousand dollars from the state budget. Given the cost of the flight, it was not so much money, and the sister of Ivan, Marina, a successful businesswoman in Moscow involved in club business, has added another five thousand. However, Ivan was worried that conditions may seem somewhat cramped artists. However, due to the fact that he chose to do some of the best and put them together in a place with which all would be reconciled, the doubts were in vain.
For me it looked like I would be catching wine went from snowy Moscow to the country to friends, attended by other guests with children, and wine, but there also happened to summer. Alex, a longtime resident and expert in these places, every now and then cooked something delicious, and other close was a Russian settlers willing to help than they could.
Far beneath the clouds ghostly present ocean (the horizon line was determined with difficulty), were seen near the house with flat roof-water collectors, rumbled a little red tractor, the dogs barked and cocks crowed. Roosters were filled all night long, instead of the usually expected in the south of the cicadas. Vampires are here to do nothing.
The territory of the Project the culture "was more than I expected. Spread on the slope of shosseyki Arona tuna down to the gardens with cocks and a tractor, it stretched the breadth extremely significantly, closely ploskokryshie home kanartsev. Track of white pebbles were replaced by tracks of gray stone, they hovered between lush thickets of cactuses of all kinds and colors, interspersed with flowers and palm trees, not to mention artifacts, located literally in walking distance from one another, skirted a pool with white down, the water in which look bright blue. Everywhere, at all levels have been the site from which you can from the comfort of benches, trying to define the skyline every time a new frame of the foreground. Suddenly, his feet tucked almost golden staircase at each step which can be read in German, a quotation from the classics. For thought. On the visor canopy over the large round table (where the kitchen) in big letters was written: "Where the danger, there bdit saving as *. Hölderlin. Nearby was a house, an alternative to this space for debate: the table it was oblong, and on the wall hung a picture of the original draft, which could illuminate the bulb. The project is called "Atlantis" and impressed by its scale - what it is similar to Babylon. Above the door of this house was nevertheless placed Mosaic bottles and glasses. The doors were charred on the corners - they survived the fire hall at Kassel "Documents" 92-year where the project is "Atlantis" was first presented in pristine beauty. Constantine Zvezdochetov known Russian artist, exhibited at this "Document" work constitutes a mosaic depicting Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunova, which protrudes from the bottom valve, if desired, from pouring port "Three ax. Astrologers interested in the project and, as soon as possible, went to Gran Canaria in the hope to get to Tenerife and Mariposa, but he failed.
Atlantis paisamor
Once upon a chapel, Hans-Jürgen Müller escaped from East Germany to West Germany, where he began to publish the journal "Mirror of the press." But 20 years later, he published a magazine called "The Mirror of Art" and by that time was the owner of one of the most successful contemporary art galleries in Stuttgart, Germany with a branch office in Cologne, as well as, apparently, thought he could change the world . Together with his wife Helga, they came up with the project "Atlantis" on the basis of humanitarian considerations, Marcuse, who suggests that aesthetics may define ethics, which bought the land in Tenerife with the distances of the beautiful to behold and a raised distance from the coastal discos.
These people, children, survivors of war, on the one hand, we decided to do everything in their power to ensure that children are not dropped their fate, but on the other - they worried about the prosperity that had happened to Germany as a result of the Marshall Plan. They dropped a fair amount of success, but they saw danger in it, has exacerbated the selfishness and obscure reason. Already in 1984 Hans-Jurgen and Helga suggested the possible dire consequences of the coming of globalization and decided to confront her. They seem fearful that the Europeans have no meaningful development of ideas, but purely mercantile plans to continue to meet evil passions. They decided to try to change society by creating a conditional ideal world, where would be inviting politicians, economists and scientists and to push them there with the artists, who often see the problems of the world in a different, often unexpected, perspective, so that as a result of politicians, economists and scientists could finally come round and think about eternity, including the fate of the children. Architecture, landscapes and artifacts should contribute to it.
Of course, no government has allocated money for the implementation of the Babylonian scale of the project, and the hosts had to settle for application in selected crafts invited architects and artists paradise.
Scary to think how much effort was invested in the implementation of this plan to a minimum. I was told that the necessary stones just tyrili on nearby construction sites and dragged almost on his hands. And there's a lot of stones. Tony, a German artist who divided the design of its gallery owners, grayer, taking part in this construction.
The Government of the 33rd district of Spain finally declared Mariposa cultural heritage - still, these islands were once a place of exile for convicts and nothing but parrots and dolphins, are not endowed. The indigenous people did not build even a boat - swim crossed from one island to another.
After reviewing the websites Mariposa, I thought it was terrible ashram, but once in place, I realized that's how it should look like the earthly embodiment of paradise - a place that resembles the set of sites for picnics, where the morning you can find a corner to retire for deliberation . Holidays somehow usually end up with meditation, the result of which is the desire to do something good for people.
Paisamor
Finally everything came together. Alex roasted meat on the grill on a specially laid down in the project area with a bar. Tables laden with delicacies. At my wife's birthday. The holiday was a success.
Nikolai Ovchinnikov Polissky and Julia settled in tents nearby. As a result of the long winter evenings, sitting under the awning of the singing of the roosters for a bottle of good "Rioja", spoke about the fate of modern art - after going down to her from beneath helderlinovogo canopy, where the same fate had to discuss with others.
The next morning began to discuss what everyone can do. It was mostly about where to find a nearby landfill technology, from which one could extract the materials at hand. Nikolai Ovchinnikov said he wanted to paint a palm tree in the birch. Tony replied to him, sparing the palm. Dmitry Gutov was somewhat indignant about the current environment, it seemed to him that the best thing he can do - it's eighty percent of the existing magnificence destroyed, but also as a result was forced to be interested in improvised trash. Polissky, who arrived here without the usual collective farm peasants clearly understood that no collider it is not muddy, and the first thing he got the idea after yesterday's barbecue - is an opportunity to beautify the local landscape of the present Russian woodpile. Here are just could not understand where to take them: birch exactly no one would have to fit and do it from the palm trees or cacti is unusual - the structure of the other viscera. Julia Ovchinnikova removed all the video - it was easier, it is in this case engaged in video art, she did not have to think about the resources, all resources present clearly.
As a result, Surikov made another work in his iconographic style, Polissky - firewood from the trees, Gutov - something flowery train, Koshlyakov of the same materials - like Tatlin's tower, while slides of the backgrounds of icons, which he built primarily of corrugated cardboard. Nikita Alexeev drew a house on a hill about 100 similar landscapes hospitable island and proposed several projects monuments paradise, Ovchinnikov had to urgently leave for family reasons, but he promised that he would do for Palm birch sarafan and Ovchinnikov mounts right now the movie.
Ivan's project Curikova success. After Hans-Juergen died, the fate of Mariposa was uncertain. And Surikov now trying to do something so that it is defined. Project "Artist of the world" should become an annual event. It is hoped that Constantine Zvezdochetov will get next year to this point and leave it something impressive for posterity.
That is,
Most of the artists I know, including myself, began his career in the squats. Moscow, Berlin, New York. Then, unlike me, a fair part of them had the usual share: mainly used grants by various institutions, to live in "residential", which usually offer accommodation in a more or less decent place, provide materials for labor and food, - so they increased the number of cultural heritage, some of which would be a good perepala owners, in the hope that the capitalization of this stuff will grow over time.
In former times there were all sorts of breeders who were invited to give their live-known artists, and those there, but studies sketches, built temples and decorated them with not a little larger mosaics. But one thing Abramtzevo, another - Ruble, there is now a beautiful home fences.
There are, however, even in Tenerife, where patrons would be able to sort of rush. Fence where you can easily step over. Only there is a dangerous probability that if find in all this splendor and beautiful spaces in society of people who see the world slightly differently, like me, the brain really pereklinit. And patrons of the politicians will give the entire state, for example, to benefit children with cancer. After all, it is unclear why the treatment has to collect money compassionate social publishing advertisements in the journal "Expert".
http://www.expert.ru/expert/2011/03/hudozhniki-mira/
28.01.2011, 03:10
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