Project
LUBLULUB

Category 
Best Art in Outdoor Public Space

About the project
For the Anniversary of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s birthday, this public art facility was established in the premises of Vladimir Mayakovsky Library during the Here You Go Festival.
The library courtyard is some kind of a triangular, which was great for a triple installation along its perimeter. The story has it that the poet once presented Lilya Urievna Brik with a ring that had her initials repeating on it, making the LUB monogram become a continuous ‘LUBLU’ (Rus. LOVE). Thus, if you stood in the center of the artpiece designed, you would read this word repeatedly as soon as you turned.

Location
St. Petersburg, Russia

Project implementation year
2022

Project website
https://geograffee.com/project/4e8d554266714a24874a22bd6501a8f8

Extra visual materials (photos, videos etc.)
https://spb.hse.ru/ba/designs/news/699275798.html
https://vimeo.com/737253553
https://vimeo.com/737341034

Applicant and authors of the project
Andrey Punin, curator of Environmental Design and Interior, National Research University — Higher School of Economics
Arina Mokshina, Eva Chernykh, Vitaliya Astratova, Nikolay Krylov — Environmental Design students

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