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Stitched horizons #2, 1. Part of dyptich.

Artists

Nikiforov Yuri

Year2007
MaterialBeam, rubber band, earth, oil, cardboard, nails, mixed media
Size123 × 200 cm (each part), 123 × 400 cm (overall size)
700 000 ₽
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Описание

"If suddenly we are torn out of the capital's hangout and placed in a coal mine to a depth of 1000 meters, where people work hard to get their bread in coal dust and cramped labyrinths, risking their lives, many of us will begin a "cleansing of consciousness." Maybe then we will begin to informally relate to moral values, to accumulated internal evil both in society and in culture. We are persuaded to put ourselves "high" in a beautiful and satisfying place, but there are few geniuses who have the right to do so, and everyone else, in pursuit of "success", becomes either small or large predators. The series "Miner's everyday life" is an associative metaphor for the reckoning of other people's fates for our ambitions and well-being.

 

1. "Old wiring" - old sections of supports, old wire fragments, black mud puddles with cigarette butts floating in them. Desolation and catastrophe are the futurology of our lives...

2. The "Miner's bed" is an environment that a normal person cannot accept.

3. "Stitched horizons" is a duplicated horizon line of gloomy mining life, where there is a gloomy dirty sky on the surface of the mines, and barren coal land studded with dangerous man-made debris."

 

Text: Yuri Nikiforov