Nikolay Polissky

Hyperbolic cooling tower (gradierhaus)

Архстояние 2009. Лето

Вне земли

Archstoyanie 2009. Summer

Outside the land

Co-authors: Parygin Igor', Parygin Ivan, Novikov Aleksandr, Galdin Anatolij, Akimkin Aleksandr, Ignatov Aleksandr, Pesterev Vitalij, Izotov Aleksandr, Zaxlebin YUrij, Kondrashov Vitalij, Krasnov Aleksandr, Gusev Aleksej, Noskov Sergej, Fominov Konstantin, Zaxlebin Evgenij, Il'ichev Ivan, Bezuglov Konstantin, SHvedov Aleksej, Bezuglov Oleg, Belov Andrej, Bukovskij Aleksej, Streban' Vladimir, Kiselev Vyacheslav, Onufriev Vladimir, Mozgunov Dmitrij, Klimkin Dmitrij, Klimkin Yurij, Slavskij Anton.

Urban landscape is no longer dominated by people and there houses. Visual space is occupied by huge hyperbolic tubes and their steam. Image of smoking tube becomes the image of man’s technological achievements visualization. It’s a hand-made volcano, basis for any plant, electro station, and reactor.

“Hyperbolic cooling tower (gradierhaus)” – it’s an object which can be hardly imagined separately from anthropogenic surroundings. But thanks to the artist a huge weaved tower (12 meters diameter and 15 meters high) made of rods and twigs will be created in virgin nature of Nikola-Lenivets village and light and smoke column gushes from it – with absolutely no harm to ecology. It offers the audience to think about the edge between the virgin nature and men’s aspiration to slave it.