«Tales of the Golden Apples» is a five-year public art program. It represents an epic about the history of the oil producing region and its residents, which was illustrated on the walls and streets of the city and united by a single route. Thanks to the efforts of project organisers and participants, Almetyevsk has received more than 30 art objects. The team has particularly chosen the artists from all over the world, including Valencia, Berlin, Kiev and Ryazan.The stories illustrated by the artists were collected in Almetyevsky district or represent fragments of the general cultural and historical heritage of Tatarstan.The project is based on a cultural study dedicated to the traditions, values and aesthetics of the region ethnic groups of this region.
Within 5 years of this public-art program we have hold more than 75 various events: lectures, master classes, guide trainings, excursions, a street theatre, a bicycle fest and a tea party with artists. All these events united more than thousand people.
The project is being implemented on the initiative of Tatneft.
Format: public space Place: Almetyevsk, Russia Dates: 2021 – 2022 Customer: PJSC Tatneft
«Industy Garden» is a public space on the territory of the local heating station area (APTS No2). It consists of a BMX-park, a walking area and a lounge zone, a botanical area and art objects.
The project concept was based on the research and a survey conducted among region residents. It has become a coworking of a local riders’ community and experts in differents areas (architecture and landscape design, public-art), and civil engineers of skate parks. The heating station area was gradually transformed into a public cultural and sport space.
The project is being implemented on the initiative of Tatneft.
Before
In 2017 the park territory was a part of an industrial enterprise. We demolished the fence of the heating station and decluttered 8 000 m² to create a new city park for residents and city visitors.
In 2020 a laser installation «Nokta» and a media sculpture «Solar Facula» were launched from the observation deck.
In 2022 «Industy Garden» was opened. It represents a public area with a skate park, lounge zones and art objects.
Before
In 2017 the park territory was a part of an industrial enterprise. We demolished the fence of the heating station and decluttered 8 000 m² to create a new city park for residents and city visitors.
In 2020 a laser installation «Nokta» and a media sculpture «Solar Facula» were launched from the observation deck.
In 2022 «Industy Garden» was opened. It represents a public area with a skate park, lounge zones and art objects.
Industy Garden Manifesto
Industy Garden’s core features are functional and artificial pipes, local botany garden, skatepark and series of public art objects. Public space territory resembles a total installation with its distinctive philosophy and image.
Reminding industrial spirit of the space, gase pipelines have become the main architectural device. These pipelines are highly mutifunctional as you can have a rest and lean or sit down on them; some of them are turned into lighting poles, garbage bins and signposts.
Botany
Nature’s return to the city is the the basis of the new space philosophy. Here, trees, herbs and bushes literally grow through the asphalt and prevail the industrial scope and rigid scenery of the boiler house. Project’s plants were partly picked during the ethno-botanical expedition on the surrounding hills of Almetyevsk in 2020. QR-codes will provide information about the herbs known by everyone from the early childhood.
Skatepark
Almetyevsk community of riders took an active part in the first concrete skate park design. The park was built and designed in accordance with the local riding style and it meets the needs of Almetyevsk skate and bmx riders.
Art objects
In fact, nowadays the industrial square territory has become a wide-scale installation which rethinks the role of industry in the city ecosystem, pathfinding of the modern man, and world’s transformations and changes. At the same time, the territory keeps already well-known objects: a mural «Theories of the Genesis of Oil», a media sculpture «Solar torch», a laser installation «Nokta».
Artistic design of an aircraft industrial enterprise
Format: public art object series Place: Saint Petersburg, Russia Dates: 2016 – 2021 Customer: NDA
Artists from Irkutsk, Gdansk and Saint Petersburg participated in the design of a closed industrial enterprise in Saint Petersburg. The Curators of Nuvo Buro Group took into account the specifics of this closed enterprise and considered the wishes of the enterprise professional community. The artistic concept of the project is based on the main aviation notion «flight». The project redefines the factory aesthetics in its avant-garde past and present. Working with this concept, the artists painted the test stand No30, an engine nacelle, a test shaft, and a small building on the enterprise territory.
The project was opened in the format of an audiovisual ceremony. The St. Petersburg University Choir performed in the area in special futuristic costumes; an experimental musician Ladomir Zelinsky and the artistic group of media artists «Tundra» also took part in the opening ceremony. More than 600 employees and guests of the enterprise participated in the event.
The organization and project names are classified on request of the customer.
TV7-117 aircraft engine testing, «Hyperjump» installation by the Tundra artistic group, performance of the St. Petersburg State University choir in futuristic industrial costumes with experimental musician Ladomir Zelinsky
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Murals on shafts and small buildings on the enterprise premises