Land Art Fest Anniversary

The Archstoyenie festival, which celebrates its tenth year this weekend, was set up by artist Nikolai Polissky, who moved away from Moscow to live in the beautiful, if remote, village of Nikola-Lenivets.



Around the village, Polissky and other artists have created fascinating, bizarre, and alluring objects using local materials like Lazy Zigurrat, above, which went up last year. Made of logs it is supposed to recall the ancient technologies of Russian wooden architecture.

Visitors enjoying sunflowers in front of architect and artist Alexander Brodsky's "Rotonda," which went up in 2009.

All of the art objects are interactive at Arcstoyanie and people can go in, climb up, around, and sometimes sleep inside the works on show.

Work on a luminous, digital clock that was set up at last year's festival. Brodsky's "Rotonda" can be seen in the background.

Fast Track was a trampoline road that was installed by Salto Architects at the festival in 2012.

This year the festival focuses on the nearby village of Zvizzhi, where four new objects will be unveiled.

One highlight will be a 70-meter-long table where people will gather to talk and eat and drink.

Tickets, which cost 1,800 rubles are still available for the festival, which is 220 kilometers from Moscow. Go to arch.stoyanie.ru for more info.



See The Moscow Times story: Land Art Festival Archstoyanie Marks 10th Year