Piotr Diakov works mainly with sculpture, where he uses his handprints. The artist is literally groping to find a new way of dialogue with the viewer and his past, analyzing personal traumatic experience. In the new project Diakov refers to the image of the reserve — a specially protected zone where endangered species inhabit.
During the exhibition, two floors of the gallery will transform into an abandoned plant maze with many dead ends, where Diakov's garden and park sculptures are located — pseudo-antique statues of heroes and demigods, a glitch fountain in the form of a two-headed Laocoon, bizarre animals and exotic fruits. The artist suggests visiting these artificial ‘jungles’ to dive in a state of internal partisanship.
Diakov goes to his hometown eagering to preserve peace and to find himself in the deep rear. However, places from the past can no longer be a refuge for quiet solitude and harmony. They have turned into a natural ‘protected zone’ where time has stopped. The way out of this feeling of hopelessness and catastrophism of what is happening is a large-scale installation in the ‘core’ of the maze on the second floor of the gallery. Diakov returns to the origins of his artistic practice — working with clay. He creates an experimental pictorial and spatial work where he tries to overcome the crisis of uncertainty by rethinking his own visual language and personal past.
Tickets for the exhibition can be purchased on site:
Standard— 200 rubles
Concession— 100 rubles
Media partner: Gathering
Partner: Flower Bureau Turcan
