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Public Art Installation “Weather at Home” (Russia)
Category: Best Art in Outdoor Public Space
Project
Public Art Installation “Weather at Home”
Category
Best Art in Outdoor Public Space
About the project (provided by the applicant)
The public art installation “Weather at Home” is located in the open courtyard of the iLove residential quarter, near the Ostankino Civil Registry Office.
The concept is based on the image of two merging umbrellas with a single handle, symbolizing family. Beneath their canopy, visitors are greeted by a hundred butterflies—an embodiment of tender love. Each figurine is handmade using the artist’s “biotypia” technique, painting on moving water. For the dome, the artist created an abstract composition on canvas.
The metaphor is clear: two people in love can overcome any “rain.” Orange and blue, warm and cool, merge to create harmony. For the artist, this color combination evokes the comfort of home: the flickering fire of a fireplace while it rains or snows outside.
The installation has become a new urban symbol of love: here visitors can feel “butterflies in their stomach” and confess their feelings under the umbrella dome for two.
Materials: steel, fiberglass, alkyd paints, biotypia technique. Dimensions: 3.6 × 2.5 × 4.3 m.
Location
iLove Residential Quarter, 11 Godovikova Street, Moscow, Russia
Project implementation year
2024
Extra visual materials
https://disk.yandex.ru/d/LupIF1AKCtmEnw
Applicant
Marina Leonidovna Zvyagintseva
Marina Zvyagintseva is an artist, curator, and one of the pioneers of public art in Russia. Member of the Creative Union of Artists and the Moscow Union of Artists. Author of more than 50 public space installations and the “Spalny Rayon” program, which integrates contemporary art into urban environments. Her signature technique is “biotypia,” painting on moving water to explore the nature of emotions and human relationships.
Author of the project
Public Art Artist Marina Zvyagintseva
Photo
Marina Zvyagintseva
Customer
GK “KORTROS”
Other participants
Artist’s team — Director: Inga Karpova, Technical Director: Alexander Goryachev, Art Manager: Yulia Arkhipova, 3D Visualization: Alexander Semenov, PR Manager: Konstantin Filippov, Photography: Denis Trofimov, Natalia Zakharova, Alexander Khripkov.
Status of the project
Implemented
