When it was born, at the end of the 60s in America, Land art was not very successful at all. That tendency which put artists to work in front of natural landscapes without modifying them hardly aroused curiosity. On the other hand, these were the years of pop art and New York was its undisputed capital. Over time, environmentalists and landscape lovers have appropriated the constitutive values of that current to the point of defending and promoting it on hundreds of occasions. Americans, especially those of the post 60s-70s generations, have also come to know her better. To consider it an expression of art closer to the representation of a world in environmental decline. The Russians have been able to do even better and Putin - at least this time - has little to do with it. 200 kilometers from Moscow, in the steppe, there is the small village of Kol'tsovo, where there is one of the most important land art parks in the world. It was built on the project of the artist Nikola-Lenivets, who gathered an impressive collection of works of art and architecture created by another exponent of Land art, Nikolay Polissky. With his works also those of the participants in the annual Archstoyane thematic festival. The park is located in a natural, pristine and protected landscape. Needless to say.
Sunday 12 May in Formia in the sesecond edition di “Outside the Museum _ meetings on environmental art”, you can see and explore everything that has to do with art and the sustainability of the territories that surround us. We often talk about it here and this appointment helps us reflect on what art and creativity can do to support battles of civilization and survival. It is an appointment of meetings and workshops organized by Seminaria Sogninterra to raise awareness in the southern Pontine area of a sustainable approach to enhancing the landscape. The development of culture through environmental art. Concept very similar to when they say that "thehe only means by which we can preserve nature is culture”.
The cycle of meetings was inaugurated in Rome last March, and now continues with the second entitled "SEMINARIA meets NIKOLA-LENIVETS". With videos, photos and stories of the protagonists, you will arrive exactly in the village of Kol'tsovo. The steppe and the works collected there will be commented and transmitted to the conscience of visitors and participants. The visual suggestions must be intriguing to convey the spirit of a participatory art form. “Fuori dal Museo” – explain the organizers – is a program full of reflections, testimonies and comparisons with Italian and international experiences. It aims to raise awareness among a vast and heterogeneous public in order to affirm good cultural practices in favor of the territory and social communities. Here, in lower Lazio, an intertwined network of sustainable tourism, knowledge and art. Offering a vision and provoking discussions on examples that have become the heritage of internationally renowned artists and intellectuals indicates a growth path that is needed in Italy. Xenia Adjoubei, architect and co-curator of the project, will specifically recount the experience of Nikola-Lenivets through videos and images, talking about it with Diana Ciufo, a member of the Seminaria board. You will then also talk about Nikolay Polissky and how he managed to transform the small steppe village, once semi-abandoned, into a world reference point. Polissky has created monumental works, but he has done so by involving local inhabitants, craftsmen and contractors from whom he has learned construction techniques and working systems. He convinced her to believe in the artist's ability to be part of an environmentally friendly cultural process. A vision worthy of today's difficulties. What 50 years after the birth of Land art, we call sustainability.
