Зодчество 2013 участники

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XXI Международный фестиваль «Зодчество», 23–24 декабря 2013

Curatorial space

The purpose of the curatorial project «Zodchestvo» Festival 2013 is an attempt to attract attention to the problem of the destruction of the Russian national landscape. The project of exposition is designed by young architects of the «Narodny Architector» company (Anton Ladygin, Alexey Kurkov, Dmitry Selivokhin). It’s witty and is responsible to the design concept of project. Abstract image of a «natural landscape» is declared in the exposition. Exhibitions of festival participants are «packed» inside the «urban volumes». Outside, historical panoramas of the collection of the «State Museum of Architecture named after Schusev» «float» on its snow- white facades. The installations of a new generation of architects, on which is the problem of salvation of the national landscape, will be in the «curatorial space» on the central axis of «Manezh». Among them: Anton Ivanov, Artem Ukropov, Kirill Gubernatorov, Daria Listopad, Shamsutdin Kerimov,

Alexander Kudimov, Mikhail Krymov, Alexey Gorjainov. I have invited those who I know, primarily to participate in our contests, and asked them to comment what is happening with the national landscape of Russia in present. Installation of artist Valery Koshlyakov (also invited to the «curatorial zone») demonstrates us the features of the national landscape, in which the industrial panorama and Stalinist architecture layer on each other in a fantastic, but so native picture. Thus, we reveal the stated theme from different sides – showing historical documents from the museum’s archives, demonstrating the realities of life in a «commercial zone», representing the statements of young architects and finally appealing to the product of the artist, which intuition and vision are staggering. In this sense, expositions presented at the purchased areas of the commercial sector of the festival probably will serve as a good illustration of the problem.

Irina Коrobina