"Semirenka" / sculpture

My team from the Fictitious Expedition Gallery (FGE) finally jumped out of the boat that had once sailed. I understand everyone. Perhaps there was a lack of financial support and interest in the project itself, which stretched for no one knew where and how much. My pipe turned into a self-pipe with a self-collected tablecloth. And I decided not to build a collective, but my own sympathy for the meaning of seven. The secret of sympathy is simple, I was born at 7 in the morning, on the 7th day, on the 7th month. Not far from the cube, which continues to interact with the urban environment, I saw a place with an even wider panorama of the city. Something round, overview, constructivist, was requested there, like a carousel in the form of a gear, but with seven teeth.

The panorama of Kiev, strewn with multi-colored domes, is always the reason for the awareness of the aesthetics of the greatness of the city. When you look down at a city from a height, you understand that there are some rules and frameworks in which people live and play - this is such conditional freedom in packaging. And here - on the mountain, a little closer to the sky, the illusion of another - real freedom - flows and inspires.

Why an illusion, because you don’t know how much the created object will be able to live freely in a given space, therefore its faceting, form are secondary, and more importantly something else - spiritual, apolitical, ritual, catholic, open and non-commodity. Unlike the gear, which is spinning in the mechanism, “Semirenka” provokes people to spin around it, creating energy flows.

In any case, the object of "Semirenki" acts as a small alternative to a standard city building. She is knocked out of the city planning order and organically hides, without violating the mountain landscape itself.

The combination of brutal form and the filling of the space around it with anthropological content (a lively influx of people) together form a different communication, divorced from the city's overloaded symbolism of the environment. Time seems to stop here.

But the city did not accept such a gift - the object was destroyed.

After trying to restore it twice, the seven-moon, like the cube, was dubbed the "Satanic temple" and abuse of the Orthodox religion. It's a pity…

To be continued ... >>>

Konovalov I