Fur-tree as an art object: dedicated to the avant-garde connoisseurs

Are you sure that you know well how it should be?look like a Christmas tree? Today you will see that you were wrong. Only a true connoisseur and art lover will be able to recognize a Christmas tree in this structure. This unusual structure is called "Yolka. Dedication to Tatlin", and it appeared on December 22 in front of the main entrance to the "Leningrad Center" (formerly the "Leningrad" cinema center). Despite the fact that there is no smell of a Christmas tree here in any sense, this is a real work of art made of aluminum and steel. And its form and content are quite consistent with the name. Vladimir Tatlin is a representative of the constructivist line of the Russian avant-garde, a famous painter, graphic artist, designer and theater artist, the founder of Soviet design. Among other things, he developed a project for a monument dedicated to the III International, which was supposed to be realized in the form of a grandiose seven-story rotating tower. But the project was forgotten. Otherwise, such a structure could have appeared in St. Petersburg. The authors of the current avant-garde Christmas tree are youngSt. Petersburg artists Egor Kraft and Alexander Letsius call their initiative symbolic support for talented colleagues and a contribution to the development of a new direction in art for our country — Public art. Sharing Tatlin's views, which he reflected in his slogans "Art — into life" and "Neither to the old, nor to the new, but to what is needed", his modern like-minded people considered the Leningrad Center to be the best place to install the installation. This modern multi-format space, the grand opening of which took place on December 25, unites concert and theater venues, a gallery, conceptual bars and restaurants. And St. Petersburg itself was once a creative platform for Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Velimir Khlebnikov. The "Yolka" will stand on the site near the Leningrad Center until February 20. And the curators of the new project are already promising that the construction of conceptual art objects on this site will become an annual tradition.

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