Exhibition "Gates of Versatility"

Time: from July 17, 2018
Venue: Moscow City, Federation Complex, Vostok Tower, Presnenskaya Embankment, 12
Organizers: Federation Tower, Artsoyuz Gallery
Project Curator: Khegay Inna
Artist: Yunus Safardiar

Starting July 17, a monumental sculpture “The Gates of Versatility” by British author Yunus Safardiar will be exhibited for the first time in Russia on an open area in front of the Vostok Tower of the Moscow City Federation Federation complex. The sculpture was exhibited 11 years ago in the Royal Park of London. Now it has been moved to the Business Center of the Russian capital and installed at the foot of the highest skyscraper in Europe.

The shape of the sculpture resembles a cloud that has descended to the earth, which consists of separate spheres that form a single whole. This bronze mirror "cloud" takes in the surrounding space thanks to reflections and gaps of forms. The impressive size of the art object "Gates of Versatility" (3 * 3 * 3 m.) Corresponds to the futuristic range of architecture of Moscow City.

According to the author, "this cultural project is intended to show the community of cultural codes of the world, the unity of universal values, the meaning of harmony in the living space." The Gates of Versatility of Yunus Safardiar - the first sculpture installed in the space of the Federation Tower of Moscow City. The appearance of his work in Moscow City is logical: 20 years ago, the sculptor himself made the first brick of high-tech polymer for the ceremony of laying the foundation at the beginning of the construction of Moscow City by order of the honored architect of Russia, the author of the project MIBC Moscow City Boris Thor.

Artist Biography

1968 - Born in the USSR

1984 - Entered the State Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. I.E. Repin in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), workshop of academicians O.K. Komov (1932 - 1994), M.K. Anikushin (1917 - 1997)

1985 - Small gold medal of the USSR Academy of Arts for sculpture

1993 - Graduated from the State Academy of Arts. I.E. Repin in St. Petersburg in the class of sculpture with a gold medal

Since 1993, lives and works in London, UK.

Main exhibitions:

2013 - “Land of masters”, Germany

2007 - “Gate of Multiplicity” - with Sean Henry, Regent’s Park

2005 - "ArtBasil" - Miami, Florida, USA

2005 - Personal exhibition “Walking Out of Time” - “Lorie FA Gallery” (Boca-RatonMiami), Florida, USA

2004 - “The riddle in stone” for St. Mary Somerset, London City, United Kingdom

2003 - Opening of the sculpture in bronze "Awakening" in RegentsPark, London, UK

2000 - Solo exhibition "The Art of Absorption" at BusinessDesign Center, London

1999 - Diamond Age Performance Exhibition at UnionChapel, London

1997 - The exhibition “Three tons of food in one go” at the ShoreditchHayStreetGallery, London

1996 - “Melody in the Stone” - exhibition at the “BarkleySquareGallery”, London

1993 - Personal exhibition at ThomsonGallery, CorkSt. ("John Martin Gallery")

1986 - Participation in the first exhibition of young nonconformist artists in the Central Manege, Leningrad

The works of Yunus Safardiar are in the collections of:

Collection of the Russian Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia
Boca-Raton Sculpture Park, Florida, United States
Lazar Kagancollection, New York, USA
ABN AMRO collection, London, UK
St. Mary Somerset, City of London, UK
Regent’s Park, London, UK

The Federation Tower complex consists of two East and West towers, erected on the same stylobate. Height "Federation Tower. East ”- 374 m, it is the highest property in Europe. Federation Tower is a mixed-use complex designed on the principle of a “vertical street” connected by high-speed elevators.