Triennial Street Art objects to stay in Gorky Park till September

Date

19 MAY 2017

Missed the first Garage Triennial? There is still something for you to see—art from the Street Morphology vector is staying in Gorky Park for the summer.

The inaugural Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art that brought together over sixty artists living in more than forty cities—from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean—closed May 14, but art from the Street Morphology vector is on display till September 2.

Working with Garage’s regional network of specialists in each local context, six Triennial curators identified seven vectors through which the current art life of the country could be broadly understood.

 Street Morphology, one of the Triennial’s vectors, is presented across three locations in Gorky Park: the Park administration building, the former Garage Pavilion site, and the area around the Hexagon. Street Morphology has gathered artists who often prefer to stay anonymous and to communicate only via their art with the outer world.

Thus, Udmurt, an anonymous artist from Yekaterinburg continues an ongoing series of interventions Dead Language (2015– ), in which the incomprehensible nature of tagging language is highlighted through the use of Latin translations of witty slang aphorisms in Russian.  The artist has hidden one such phrase in plain sight within Garage’s future building, the Hexagon. Handwritten on the back of one of the huge banners enveloping the building, it can be viewed from a special position, creating an intimate yet public intervention.

For the Triennial, the anonymous group TOY have created a large sculpture made of a truck tire. Entitled Flowerbed, the work consists of large lorry tire, inside of which two small birches are planted.

Inspired by the half-dismantled former Garage Pavilion in Gorky Park, designed by architect Shigeru Ban, Alexander Shishkin-Hokusai from Saint-Petersburg revamps its ruins by creating an atmosphere of Parthenon-style architecture. Thirty large replicas of ancient sculptures made of his signature plywood cut-outs are installed on the oval roof of the building, producing a fleeting impression of a Greek temple or St. Petersburg parks and palaces.

And finally Gorky Park visitors walking along Kramsky Bridge leading to the park are welcomed by a colorful work by Kirill Lebedev (Kto) on the Garage office wall. The artist has created a monumental work executed with the use of his recognizable psychedelic colors.

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