"Aqueduct" is a land art project from the snow of Nikolai Polissky and Nikola-Lenivets crafts , created in 2002 near the village of Nikola-Lenivets in the territory of the current Nikola-Lenivets Park [1] .
| Nikolay Polissky | |
| Aqueduct . 2002 | |
| Snow | |
| Park "Nikola-Lenivets", Nikola-Lenivets |
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Description
Land-art project of Nikolai Polissky and Nikola-Lenivetsky crafts , made of snow, is a semblance of a Roman aqueduct.
Polissky will tell about his project 11 years later:
Once again I worked with snow in 2002. I always had a dream to build a Manilovsky bridge across the river, and that merchants sit on it, trade. And then winter came, cool, 35 degrees of frost, and we decided to build. Started raking the snow on the river, making frost, but did not consider the scale. The ice should be wide, and we made it narrow enough, and the bridge began to fall under the water. Then we dragged him to the ground and decided that it would be a Roman aqueduct made of snow! It is easy to get bogged down in the tradition in the village, but by that time I thought that we were privatizing historical architectural forms in Nikola-Lenivets, making them in our own village from improvised materials, so it was followed [2]
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Irina Kulik said about "Aqueduct":
And even at first glance, the absurd aqueduct of snow to Polissky seems, if not functional, then logical. If the purpose of an aqueduct is to conduct water, then why not build it directly from H2O crystallized into snowflakes? [3]
The project was part of the Russian exposition at the XI Venice Architecture Biennale. , one of the most important events in the life of Russian architecture [4]
Bibliography
- Project "Aqueduct" // Catalog of the Russian exposition of the 11th Venice Biennale of Architecture: 4 t. T. 4: Personal exhibition catalog of Nikolai Polissky / Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation; special issue of the magazine “Project Classic”; under. ed. Grigory Revzin and Pavel Khoroshilova. - [B. m.], 2008. - p. 56-59.
Notes
- ↑ Nikolay Polissky and Russian architecture. Gregory Revzin . archi.ru. The date of appeal is January 18, 2014.
- ↑ Kravtsova M. Guide to the works of Nikolai Polissky, narrated by himself Archival copy of November 2, 2013 on the Wayback Machine // www.artguide.com. - 2013. - July 4th.
- ↑ Kulik Irina . Cloud, lake, tower. Nikolay Polissky // Project Classic. - X-MMIV. - April 29, 2004 .
- ↑ Kommersant-Vlast - How I was preparing an architectural biennale in Venice . kommersant.ru. The date of appeal is January 18, 2014.