Nikolay Polissky

BORDERS OF THE EMPIRE, 2007

NIKOLAY POLISSKY is a Russian land artist. The majority of his artworks can be seen in the village of Nikola Lenivets, where, since 2000, the artist has been creating utopian environments and giant organic sculptures and architectures made of local materials using traditional village craftworks techniques and making its inhabitants real participants of the creative process.
The partnership between the artists and villagers has led to the establishment of a real cultural centre, and, since 2003, an international festival of landscape architecture, ArchStoyanie is held here.
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Looking at the artist’s projects is like seeing architectures from all times emerge form the Russian soil. These organic architectures take the form of archetypical constructions, from ancient times to modernism, whreas other works are more close to natural phenomena like bird nests or beaver dams, or to modern-technology objects.

HAY TOWER, 2000

FIREWOOD TOWER, 2001

MEDIA TOWER, 2002

LIGHTHOUSE ON UGRA, 2004

LIKHOBORSKIE GATE, Moscow, 2005
Size: height 12m, base 10x10m

VOLCANO, 2009

SPOUTNIK, SPACE ARCHEOLOGY, Dunkerque, France, 2010

UNIVERSAL MIND, 2012

Find out more at http://www.polissky.ru/en/

Nomad

Street art becomes Land art.

NOMAD is a German artist who was educated and inspired by skateboarding, Hardcore Punk, Graffiti, Hip Hop and Rave Countercultures of the 80′s.
His activity consists of hundreds of paintings and marker drawings on Berlin’s streets, which earned him admirers and collectors and made his art visible all over the world.
His style reflects his lifestyle as a vagabond, and it is always evolving and incorporates “the necessary”. He proclaims to use whatever style or material is available to maximize the focus on the pleasure of the creation.
Nomad’s works reminds us that art and artists does not need boundaries. It’s a simple celebration of freedom, life and its vanity. It’s a healthy breath of fresh air in a world that is tied up with circumstances and definitions.
His recent project was the so called “Land Art” project, where Nomad transfers the ideas and intentions of street art into the wild nature…