"Trinity" / sculpture

“There is a belief that came to us from ancient magical treatises that, on a full moon, a mole gets out of the ground and dances around a dandelion. What unites them is incomprehensible. ”

After the destruction of the brick Semirenka, I realized that in order to balance stability from the onslaught of the crowd, a reinforced concrete structure was needed. This time I wanted something very voluminous and semantic, accumulating in myself and giving out, so that - “forever”.

For such a voluminous task, an abstract structure of 3 simple, united by threads, geometric shapes (circle, triangle and square) with the dimensions of each side of 108 cm came up just right. Hence the name “Trinity”.

If you want to know the meaning in the history of simple geometric shapes and the number 108, I suggest google. To be honest, I myself do not fully understand my creative potentials, but it was interesting to get another experience every time. At the same time, I spent considerable personal resources on computing: concept-forms, parameters, dates, and very importantly, places. Naturally, the materials and work were done at their own expense.

Based on the previous practice, I began to notice among the visitors of my objects two kinds of people who are divided into: friends-strangers, a minority-majority, unusual-simple, educated-zero, etc. My desire was to unite them with a third party - landscape and sky, which happened.

When a person is institutionally educated in art, when he looks at a work, he begins to look for similarities with what he already has in mind, but such people most often go to exhibition halls, listen to lectures, read books, etc. And for this environment I needed to name what I have been doing for many years, except for the self-organization “Fictitious Gallery Expedition”. The wandering definition between the evolutionarily blurred boundaries of the terms of Western models: "land art", "public art", "environmental" - all this is similar, but not because of the specific location of the exhibit. Then I went further: if the objects were built exclusively on the hills, and the panorama of the environment plays an important role, then why not name it - HILL-ART, all the more this emphasizes the ancient city of Kiev. But on the other hand, the majority of those “zero” viewers who visit these sites do not care about the author’s significance, and their own interpretations and names are born. For example, the Trinity is a three-wheeled self-propelled gun. And since a person is often endowed with the properties of fantasy and belief in something miraculous, there is a “sticking” of either ready-made practices in the form of religions, teachings, or one's own beliefs. Surprisingly, there were those who tried for several years to unravel the system of "quests", connecting with my previous objects. They climbed all the nearby hills, talking on forums, not knowing about the attitude of work to contemporary art, came to scientific conclusions, and in this sense they formed their own value system from scratch. But when they found out that this was the work of artists, they were often disappointed - sort of understandable.

As a result, my concrete Trinity object became the most popular among my former and my urban sculptures with V. Zaichenko, as an interactive field for the exchange of information. Here are some of the varieties of communication: the film “Cityscape” (excerpt from “Trinity” -32: 05), Excursions along Mount Schekavitsa, Practice Forum, “Sex in the city: where to do it fast, Walk-quest with Google services and project "Interesting Kiev"

To be continued ... >>>

Konovalov I