Art object in the interior on a New Year's theme. Art project "ART-YOLKA"

Exhibition "Christmas tree as an art object"

In Moscow, on the territory of the Red October factory, the exhibition “Christmas tree as an art object” was held. The competition participants were faced with the task of creating an original New Year's tree that could become a work of modern art.
The winner of the competition was chosen as a result of voting by a star jury - the installation “Return”. Based on the results of online voting, “Anatomy of a Christmas Miracle” by Nastasya Bezrukova and Nikita Sysoev won in the “Most Popular Christmas Tree” category.
Art objects were also awarded in the following categories: the most non-Christmas tree - the “Doomsday Bunker” project, the most New Year tree - the project “A Christmas tree without balls, like a ball without Christmas trees”, the most high-tech tree - the project “Christmas tree-antenna”, the project “ Tree of Happiness."
Due to the fact that “Red October” is not only a cultural center, but also social life capital, the organizers established a special prize - “The Most Secular Christmas Tree”, in which “MainYolka” from MainPeople won.

"Christmas tree without balls." Larisa Talis, Archduet company
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"Christmas tree of happiness." Pavel Shokodko

"Y-tree." Fedorovich Nadezhda and Black-eyed Alexey

"Return". Leonid Feygin, Oleg Artemyev and Dmitry Semakov

"Doomsday Bunker" Mediaproperty

"Aero-Yolka". Arzhaeva Olga

"Christmas Tree-Dragon". Olesya Livanova and Timur Gritsan

"Eco-Christmas tree". Carolina Khatkevich

"Christmas tree made of axes." AV Kvasov

Untitled. Workshop "TAF" (Elena Tarutina, Daniil Klimov and Oleg Shulika)

Untitled. Glazacheva Ida and Hovsepyan Marina

"Anatomy of a Christmas miracle." Bezrukova Nastasya and Sysoev Nikita

"MainYelka". MainPeople Project

"The need for abstraction." Valeria Korneeva and Yana Korobova

"Reference point". Advertising and PR Marketing Department of the company "GUTA-DEVELOPMENT"

"Sacrifice". Advertising and PR Marketing Department of the company "GUTA-DEVELOPMENT"

Information tree". LLC "Integrum Media"

Elka-Antenna". Project of the youth editorial office "Weekend Openspace"

"Flower of Life". Funkel

Participants in the competition, organized by the Guta-Development company, included architectural bureaus, design studios, Internet portals and printed publications, as well as freelance artists, and its jury included the commissioner of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art Joseph Backstein, gallery owner Vladimir Ovcharenko, artist Vladimir Dubossarsky , designer Stas Zhitsky, architects Nikolay Lyzlov, Vlad Savinkin and Vladimir Kuzmin. And although the main theme of the competition was the New Year tree, the participants had every right interpret the attribute of the New Year holidays as they please.

"Return". DirectDesign.ru. Photo by Oleg Mishin

"Y-tree." Nadezhda Fedorovich, Alexey Chernooky. Photo by O. Samborskaya

According to the organizers of the competition, they were “interested in any manifestation of creativity: from the extraordinary design of coniferous trees to witty and non-trivial transformations of traditional Christmas trees.” That is why the only condition of the competition was formulated as follows: “The Christmas tree must be presented as an art object and contain an expressive conceptual idea.”

Photo by Oleg Mishin

Another wish of the organizers to the participants was the resistance of the art objects to any vagaries of the Moscow winter - the trees should not only be spectacular, but also stand until January 14 “without damage to their appearance" The main criteria for evaluating the competition entries were the innovativeness of the idea, the originality of the composition, the level of artistic and technical execution and the variety of materials used.

"Flower of Life". Funkel. Photo by Oleg Mishin

For his “Flower of Life” composition, Funkel used the steel from which the “Christmas tree” is made and glass balls filled with liquid, reminiscent of traditional Christmas tree decorations. According to the author, “the light spots that are formed from the glow of the Christmas tree, intersecting with each other, form a pattern, the graphics of which resemble the image of the “flower of life.”

"Aero-Yolka" Olga Arazheva. Photo by O. Samborskaya

Olga Arazheva used plastic for the Aero-Yolka project: her “tree” is an illuminated large-diameter corrugated pipe that wraps around a metal pole. According to the author, this design symbolizes “a spiral of ascending air flow and creates a directed movement of the Earth’s energy into outer space.” This installation also has an important practical meaning: such a tree can serve as an original lamp both indoors and outdoors.

"Christmas tree-book". Elena Vinogradova and Marina Bakhireva. Photo by O. Mishin

Elena Vinogradova and Marina Bakhireva created the “Christmas Tree Book,” which is lightweight and environmentally friendly, the “pages” of which are made of plywood and can be read by both children and adults - each of them will find interesting information for themselves on this tree. And Olesya Livanova and Timur Gritsan dedicated their installation to the symbol of the coming year - the dragon. They named their tree “Dragon Tree”, and its twisting steel trunk really looks like both a mythological animal and a spruce.

Anatomy of a Christmas miracle." Nastasya Bezrukova and Nikita Sysoev. Photo by O. Samborskaya

Nastasya Bezrukova and Nikita Sysoev came up with a composition called “Anatomy of a Christmas Miracle.” This is an attempt to understand the secret of the charm and attractiveness of the New Year's tree - it is made up of boxes and pencil cases different shapes, each of which contains some kind of “secret” and is illuminated from the inside. “Having gotten rid of the shell, we have the opportunity to see the naked form (skeleton) and, in particles (boxes), Christmas motifs materialized,” the authors themselves write in the annotation to their work.

"Eco-Christmas tree". Caroline Khatkevich. Photo by O. Samborskaya

Karolina Khatkevich also disassembled the image of the Christmas tree into its components. In her opinion, the main thing in a New Year's tree is illumination, so the “Eco-Christmas Tree” invented by this artist is a rack of wooden shelves, shaped like a spruce, on each of which candles, lanterns, and all kinds of lamps are placed.

“A Christmas tree without balls is like a ball without a Christmas tree.” Larisa Talis and Archduet company. Photo by O. Samborskaya

And Larisa Talis and the Archduet company decided that the most important thing in a Christmas tree is the decorations, and it was the Christmas ball that was made the main thing actor your installation. A giant red ball covered in glitter is decorated with many tiny Christmas trees growing from it as if from globe.

"Untitled". Daria Kalita and Diana Arslanova. Photo by O. Samborskaya

One of the most memorable installations of the exhibition, perhaps, was the work of Daria Kalita and Diana Arslanova, drawing attention to the inadmissibility of mass cutting down of fir trees before the New Year. Right on the asphalt, the artists depicted the silhouette of a spruce tree with chalk, and next to it there was a road sign, as if saying that fir trees once grew here...

"Sacrifice". PR department of the Guta-development company. Photo by O. Samborskaya

The PR department of the organizing company also spoke out against the mass destruction of conifers - the installation “Sacrifice” is a spruce tree suspended upside down, which is decorated with mourning black balls. The authors specifically emphasize that during the creation of this art object, “not a single spruce tree was harmed.”

"Individual bunker tree." Mealhouse A&M. Photo by O. Samborskaya

What does the coming 2012 promise us and will the problem of protection from natural and man-made disasters really become the most pressing? The Mealhouse A&M bureau gives its answer to this question, having come up with a Christmas tree in the form of... a bunker.

"Return". DirectDesign.ru. Photo by O. Samborskaya

Well, the most romantic object of the show, of course, was the art project “Return” by DirectDesign, which makes us remember that the new year is a time of transition. In the sky above Red October, the authors hung several snow-white fir trees soaring on wings (some look like angels, others with their outlines more reminiscent of dragons). According to the authors, these are the “souls” of the felled people who have returned to the holiday. Christmas trees. Their snow-white wings, frozen in their flapping, emphasize the “crystal purity of the festive moment.”

The exhibition of unusual New Year trees will last at Red October until January 14. And the winners of the competition will be determined this week – December 23.

Christmas tree 2011, Fedorovich Nadezhda and Black-eyed Alexey, Competition Christmas tree as an art object, Russia

Return 2011, Leonid Feygin, Oleg Artemyev and Dmitry Semakov, Competition Christmas tree as an art object, Russia

Conceptual trees do not at all resemble traditional coniferous trees. These are installations created from the most different materials. And like true art objects, they require additional explanation. After all, there is the “Flower of Life” and “Dragon Tree”, “Axe Tree” and “Individual Doomsday Tree Bunker”, “Antenna Tree” and “Yo-Christmas Tree”. There are images for which annotations are written in verse, and there are art objects without a name.

Sacrifice 2011, Advertising and PR Marketing Department of Guta-Development Company, Christmas Tree Competition as an Art Object, Russia

Doomsday Bunker 2011, Mediaproperty, Competition Christmas tree as an art object, Russia

Aerotree 2011, Olga Arzhaeva, Competition Christmas tree as an art object, Russia

Christmas tree-dragon 2011, Olesya Livanova and Timur Gritsan, Competition Christmas tree as an art object, Russia

Christmas tree without balls 2011, Larisa Talis and Archduet, Competition Christmas tree as an art object, Russia

Christmas tree-antenna 2011, Youth editorial project Weekend from Openspace, Competition Christmas tree as an art object, Russia

Tree of Happiness 2011, Pavel Shokodko, Competition Tree as an art object, Russia

Landmark 2011, Advertising and PR Marketing Department of Guta Development Company, Russia

Christmas tree without a name 2011, Daria Kalita and Diana Arslanova, Competition Christmas tree as an art object, Russia

Flower of Life 2011, Funkel, Competition Christmas tree as an art object, Russia

Flower of Life 2011, Elena Tarutina, Daniil Klimov, Oleg Shulika from the workshop—TAF, Competition Christmas tree as an art object, Russia

Needs for abstraction 2011, Valeria Korneeva and Yana Korobova, Competition Christmas tree as an art object, Russia

Christmas tree made of axes 2011, AV Kvasov, Competition Christmas tree as an art object, Russia

Anatomy of the Christmas miracle 2011 Bezrukova Nastasya, Sysoev Nikita, Competition Christmas tree as an art object, Russia

Information Christmas tree 2011, Integrum Media LLC, Competition Christmas tree as an art object, Russia

All trees and non-trees adorned the courtyards, arches, alleys and embankments of the former chocolate factory. You can see them until January 15th. And you can find out the winners of the New Year's competition.

ABOUT THE EVENT

The New Year holiday is usually not complete without its main symbol - a decorated Christmas tree. The exhibition "Art-YOLKA" is the creation, by means of modern art and design, of an unusual "Christmas tree space" - the plastic equivalent of the "Christmas Tree Spirit", both a ritual tree and a holiday of the same name. The exhibition is conceived as a dynamic, whimsical installation and invites you to enter as if inside the Christmas tree itself, as if into space, in contrast to the traditional festive action unfolding around the Christmas tree - the tree. The gallery will create a single festive environment, like a picturesque collage from different materials and semi-finished products, reminiscent of the attributes New Year's holiday- Christmas tree decorations, forest animals and all sorts of fabulous “forest evil spirits”.

The exhibition includes large images of objects by artists and masters of the 20th century, in keeping with the spirit of the holiday, as well as Art objects on the theme of the Christmas tree and non-trivial Christmas toys, made by designers, glass artists, students of the Moscow Architectural Institute and the Moscow State University of Art and Industry named after S.G. Stroganov and children's creative studios.

The New Year's exhibition installation can also be considered as a “theater set”, in which various performances and quests for children will be played out during the exhibition.

If you want to get a boost of joy for the whole year, come to our exhibition "Art-Christmas Tree".

Curator: Larisa Klimova – architect, designer, artist, teacher, member of the Union of Moscow Architects.

Partners\with support: "Workshop-TAF", "LAB-digest theater", Moscow Architectural Institute-State Academy, Moscow State Art-Industrial Academy named after S.G. Stroganov, educational complex "Capital", educational complex No. 1363, educational complex No. 1420.

Exhibition opening program December 10, 17:00 Guests will enjoy a New Year's performance from the authors educational program"Theatre Lab Digest" festive mood, tangerines and surprises.

Free admission.

Registration for the quest "ART under the TREE" is open.

This is not only an exciting game, in which the children will receive pleasant gifts at the end, but also an immersion in an amazing, unfamiliar New Year's world, Holiday art. To receive the gift waiting in the gallery, children need to go through a route of 7 stations. Cult artists of the 20th century, whose works are presented at the exhibition as large flat images and unusual installations, inspire the children and suggest how the task is solved.

Exhibition "ART-TREE" (0+)

Opening hours: Tue – Sun, 11:00–20:00

Cost: 100 rub. (RUR 50 – discount ticket)

2021 is coming soon. How quickly time flies! But not only years are running away, but also hours, minutes, seconds. If you want to feel the New Year approaching in advance and celebrate it without fuss and haste, start decorating your home right now. Ideas for New Year's decor are already in the air, and many of them can be suggested by children who will gladly take part in this pleasant and exciting process. Moreover, the children do not need to be urged on or rushed, and they themselves can easily add something new every day and gradually bring the festive interior to perfection. You may have to buy some, but most of the decorations can be made with your own hands from what you can find around the house.

Color matters: the main tone of New Year's decor

Recommendations for selection color range cannot serve as the ultimate truth. New Year's decor should fit harmoniously into the existing interior and only give it an elegant, festive look. But some tips may be useful.

Green, the color of pine needles, will be present in any case. To dilute it, you need to use not the entire rainbow palette, but only two or three contrasting tones. It is better to give preference to New Year's colors - red, gold, silver. Rich, bright shades of purple, blue, and turquoise also look good.

You can arrange everything in one color scheme- it is very effective and stylish option. Just don't forget about compatibility. If the interior of the apartment is designed in cold colors, choose the appropriate color scheme and silver, to warm shades add gold and red New Year's colors.

Several Christmas trees in the house - easy and simple

You don’t want to cover your walls with tinsel and garlands, and you don’t need to. But New Year It’s not a holiday without a Christmas tree, so we definitely put up a forest beauty. Everything is simple here: we prepared some free space, inspected last year’s toys, determined what needs to be purchased, and you can decorate the main one.

But, if you approach the issue creatively, you can not buy the missing toys, but make them yourself. And one more thing - in every room you can find a place for a homemade Christmas tree, and let the holiday be felt throughout the apartment at once.

Additional trees can be:

• – from beads, garlands, photographs,
• from scrap materials - wooden sticks, pine cones, pasta,
• – tinsel, rain, sweets and everything that comes to mind are glued onto the cone,
• knitted or collected from small balls,
• beautifully shaped branches with silver or gold plating,
• ordinary indoor plant, properly decorated.

Just let the trees not be of the same type, but different in texture, shape and method of execution.

And now - toys. Made with love and imagination, they will turn your New Year into the warmest, most soulful and cozy holiday. You can wrap simple ones Christmas balls scraps of fabric, knit them into clothes from colored yarn, paint them acrylic paints, make compositions from pine cones, funny felt figures. Bake in the shape of stars and Christmas trees with a small hole for a ribbon and hang it on the branches - both tasty and beautiful.

Decorating windows and doors

The windows are the eyes of the house, the door is the face. Let your apartment look at the world and greets guests with joy.

Let's start with the windows:

• place compositions of branches, pine cones and candles on the windowsills,
• arrange and hang bright New Year's balls,
• cut from plastic bottles or thick paper,
• make garlands from flags, funny figures, Christmas socks.

If you are interested in or are simply familiar with this technique, create fairy-tale, illuminated, magical figures and winter scenes.

Doors are usually decorated with wreaths. Get creative, create your own wreath or improve an existing one. Everything comes into play:

• dried citrus slices,
• winter berries – rowan, cranberry,
• cut flower buds,
• bright candies,
• corks, beads,
• cones, coniferous branches, ribbons,
• bows, tinsel, garlands.

A wreath can be used to decorate not only a door, but also a wall, window, furniture or chandelier.

New Year's lighting and table setting

New Year is unthinkable without candles. Let there be many of them, make beauty with your own hands. Arrange white and colored candles in glass vases, glasses, ordinary jars, one-third filled with sea salt or red berries, wrap with cinnamon sticks, cover with green twigs.

A composition with a live fire will come in handy anywhere, and especially in the center of a festive dinner. It is better to set the table in the same colors that predominate in the interior decoration. Each plate can be equipped with the name of the guest or a small card with a wish. The dishes are to your taste, but it is very desirable to depict some New Year’s symbol on each one.

Decorate your home with love, get everyone at home involved and you will get real pleasure. And also a pleasant bonus in the form of quite tangible savings, since you can create all New Year's beauty Can with my own hands. Have a nice winter evening and a happy New Year!