"Ascent" invisible gallery in the hills of Kiev landscape.
October 18, 2000the city of Kiev, the mountain SchekavitsaArtists: Konovalov I., Zaichenko V.
“It so happened that I could no longer physically stay in Kiev. After the Departure in 1996, I was forced to leave for the Dnieper. There were difficult times and therefore everyone arranged as they could - mostly went into design. When I returned to Kiev to Olegovskaya Street in the workshop, Zaichenko Vova (the Hare) appeared from time to time there. In the evenings, we came up with different things, most often just into the air, since there was no money to materialize ideas.
One evening, we remembered that we went on an expedition (FGE) in the last century and a millennium and thought - why not make a “Stop”, symbolically and materially, right in the courtyard of the house — a natural one made of brick with a bench. Then we realized that if you build the “Stop” only for yourself in the yard, then it will be more like a domestic building. And we decided to make a stop near the workshops on Mount Schekavitsa in an open space "for all."
The wall itself was built of two colors of brick so that it could be seen on the inscription in large red letters FGE. Opposite the “Stop”, two cemeteries were located: Old Believers and Muslim, where you could think about the eternal.
But we did not have to think about the eternal for a long time, the police came running, and we were taken to a strong point. They drew up a protocol and called our work “A bench with a supporting wall”. And in order to settle our squad, we found money and bought vodka, cucumbers, green peas as a purchase, and the police left us alone.
But in complete peace we, or rather the “Stop”, were left after four days - smashed into bricks.
If we discard all personal tales, then the “Stop” was on the verge of the Millennium, as the point of “emergence” of actions free from responsibility, possibly parallel to institutional thinking.
This was the first landing after a long voyage. The “stop” had no purpose except to resume the FGE route.
Once again, I want to draw attention to the fact that this is not alienation, an alternative to institution, or abstract thinking, but this is only a peculiar vision of oneself in open space, as an experience of self-organization in culture and life. To be continued ... >>>
Konovalov I