Festival of landscape art objects "Archstoyanie 2012"
• Festival of landscape art objects "Archstoyanie 2012"
The Kaluga Region village of Nikola-slothful held Europe's largest festival of landscape art objects "Archstoyanie 2012".
To get around the entire territory and to inspect all facilities need more than one day. So most people come overnight.
The visitors were not only from Kaluga, but also from Moscow, Tula, Yaroslavl, Tambov, St. Petersburg and other cities.
Attended the festival and the creators of the objects from Estonia, Japan and Russia.
I also managed to visit this event.
The festival was organized parking for cars, next to which some put up their tents:
For those who come without tents, organize equipment hire:
For all trails and facilities of the festival can make independent travel. To this end it has been established here such cheerful card with routes:
At the information center of the road is where you can get information about the festival and a map showing all of the objects:
For those who want the organizers did a bicycle rental:
Arranged tours on horseback:
Or motoparaplane:
bus trips from many cities have been organized:
Next to the information center is a house with a double roof. It hosts the gallery of drawings, paintings and drawings of the future objects:
The main entrance to the festival is made of funny bugs on a tree:
After passing the gate, you can see the "Arch" - the object built this year. It is both an observation platform, which can be reached by a spiral staircase:
Next to the church of St. Nicholas is home horned whole settlement:
Almost all the buildings you can climb and take pictures, except for very high:
However, some climbed on the tall buildings - a new object "Storm sky":
On the banks of the river Ugra is "Lighthouse":
In it passes a spiral staircase on which you can climb to the very top:
The output gives a very hot, therefore, came to the festival with pleasure bathed in pure Ugra:
forgotten headgear creative in their own way:
Not far from the lighthouse facility is located "Nicolino ear":
Every art object necessarily has its own concept, sometimes it is very difficult, understandable perhaps that its creator. Therefore, at each of the buildings there is a plate with its description and authors:
have been made, and dining rooms:
And the tea:
and a hookah:
Despite the huge number of people in the territory was not noticeable debris, so the organizers have provided that..:
And this:
In many places there were bales of hay, which can take a nap:
conducted various workshops. For example, a master class gift packaging:
But what to say, Andrey Bartenev himself came here with his performance "Kiss of the tree." These are funny frog:
Organizers "Archstoyanie" festival to answer questions:
assembled journalists:
At the fair selling various souvenirs hand made:
The object that caused the greatest interest of the audience - it is "Fast track" or "Fast Path" - a fifty trampoline, the longest in Europe. We invented it in Estonia. In the beginning was the presentation on the trampoline:
And then everyone used it ponaznacheniyu. Trampoline is installed permanently and remove it will not be, so come and have fun:
On the territory of the festival titled "Labyrinth" is the main stage and several are made of stone labyrinths:
Tired and exhausted by the sun, people lying on the grass:
And some in hammocks:
and listen to relaxing music:
Object "Footbridge" passing over the marsh, joins territory "Labyrinth" with a campground and free parking:
In the evening on the main stage of the Labyrinth was a very strange spectacle. On the front rows somehow smelled of grass:
A night near object "Universal Mind" was a media opera "harpist in hell." On a rather peculiar spectacle were a lot of spectators. In the background - lightning Tesla.
In general, night performances have left some feeling of revulsion. Or maybe I'm just not up to their understanding. It would be interesting to talk with the directors of these actions, or at least to see in whose minds it all originated
The next day we had continued examination. That's what we label broadcasts the object "the empire" - "Colonnade" the empire "stretched in a line on dvuhsotmetrovuyu Nikola-Lenivets field. Such street colonnade found in excavated by archaeologists cities of Asia Minor, Africa, Palmyra and Tumagadi. Their purpose is not completely clear, but they tell us about the power of existing empires, each of which is gone, leaving only a symbol of his power. So Nicola Lenivets on carved pillars of elms planted the two-headed bird is following its mythical empire abroad ":
The "universal mind" - "At the head of the installation on the podium is the dominant of the project: a huge figure, symbolizing the two hemispheres of the brain. Here, as a basic guide, it is a double colonnade, sending viewers to the images of classical sacral architecture of the Ancient World. Thus each column resembles a space rocket. After all, the space - this is the main aspiration of the planetary forces and the will of the mind ":
Sami gyrus, we were told, were developed in Sochi. their length of 8 km:
When viewing the object on the last day of the festival, the theater found the exhibit - vintage car with pedals are used as props one of the performances. Many people remember this from my childhood:
There is also close to the object "Gilded cells":
Object "Sanctuary" - recreates the life of the settlement at the turn of the century, where the ancestors worshiped a variety of inanimate and animate objects:
Some facilities are aging and overgrown with nettles:
"to monitor the cloud platform" - it can lie and sunbathe:
"Pavilion cones" is also called a million cones. Indeed, as I have not seen ever cones:
Another cool object - "Toilet-Tribune". It is located at a height of 5 meters. Under it the pit. Sitting on the toilet do not see around, and he admires the surroundings from above:
The Rotunda - a house among the fields. It can be accessed from either side through one of the plurality of doors. From the roof offers a beautiful panoramic view. Inside the rotunda has a fireplace:
Another object of "your case" - is a capsule hotel, where there are single and double rooms. A good solution to the problem of cheap hostels in Russia:
It is possible for a long time to write about "Archstoyanie" and only two words we can say: