The installation Recycle Chapel - which can be roughly translated as the Chapel of Recycling - the Arhatak group of architects and four accompanying Columns by Sergey Katran stayed in St. Petersburg for only three days, from July 19 to July 21, but in the very center, on the square between the Manege and the Post Office, at Konnogvardeisky Boulevard. The forum of spatial development in the Manezh had already passed by that time, and the exhibition of Maria Elkina, timed to coincide with it, carefully bypassing the real architecture of St. Petersburg in an attempt to build a bridge over it from the past to the future, was barely over. And then the tires.
The problem of waste and its recycling in our country is still not paid enough attention, and such a direction of modern art as recycling art is not very developed - the authors of the installation, which was called upon to correct the situation as much as possible, say. Tires were collected from garbage dumps and roadsides of the city.
The central object is a "chapel" of 15 rows of tires, with a slit in the entrance, a dark interior space illuminated through the gaps between rows of extravagant building material and a bungee-like tire on a chain. The structure was supported by a metal frame and topped with a pyramid of black barrels.
Unlike the Capella, the four Columns, painfully reminiscent of the bell towers of Renaissance and Baroque churches, are not made of identical, but of different-sized tires, laid according to the oscillograms of the sound of poems about the nature of the poets Khlebnikov, Zabolotsky, Vvedensky and Oleinikov. It turned out to be a rather massive structure in the center and relatively oscillating in the corners.
It turned out to be an amazing structure; the authors, of course, are right and wrong: garbage art still exists in our country, it is simply more focused on soldering metal structures, polyethylene and the beauty of old doors. That's
the house of Alexander Brodsky on ArchStoyaniya was built from concrete slabs found in the vicinity. And as far as the hands have not yet reached the tires - these are tires, gentlemen, tires! It's amazing that they stood there for three days.
However, the curator of the installation, Liza Savina, compared the chapel with the Vatican chapels at the Biennale and now promises to show the installation at the Venice Biennale.
