Will Kiev be struck by the “masterpieces” that made up the exposition of the International Festival of Contemporary Sculpture?

On June 2, the festival of modern sculpture started in Kiev. A platform for demonstrating 20 large-scale works was the National Botanical Garden. Grishko. Within a month, visitors to the garden can see sculptures created by representatives of Great Britain, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia and Ukraine.

Of the 297 applications submitted for the festival, 15 works were selected that will take part in the competition for the title “Best Project” of 2012 and a “small” cash bonus of $ 6 thousand. There are also two incentive prizes, one of which will be given to the architect, who received the most “likes” (audience sympathies) in Internet voting.

The remaining five sculptures go out of competition, as they reflect the work of already recognized creators. Magdalena Abakanovich, Eva Rothschild, Nigel Hall, Jauma Plensa will submit themselves to the court of the Kiev public.

Of course, Kievans, as well as guests of the capital, will be curious to assess the trends of contemporary art and understand where the world is moving. However, almost all of the work is not so much original and original in nature as it resembles such a direction as “kitsch” (creative for the masses). Button monument, a cemetery of stone mobile phones, mirror stones, headless jackets and a faceless “thinking” person created from letters of the Latin alphabet (“The House of Knowledge” by J. Plens, the most interesting project of the festival)… All this can serve as a wonderful background for photographs but is art? However, if the task of art is only to decorate the world and shock the audience, then yes.

Eve Istr