Housing-art: pathology of taste, or a new word in contemporary art?

Who never saw the swans out of the tire, the mushrooms from old bowls and tied to trees Teddy bears, never lived in the former Soviet Union. These infernal objects has long captivated the courtyards of houses in the residential areas and the cause of their residents and casual visitors very mixed emotions. Not so long ago, this phenomenon has its own name — HCS-art. What is "art" and how it is perceived?

Controversial and poorly understood phenomenon dedicated his book Moscow designer and a student of the HSE Polina Sokolova. His perfectly serious scientific work she called "How to take housing-art?". In this work, the researcher seeks answers to the many questions that will allow to understand and to forgive people for turning our yards to the branch of "the Garden of earthly delights" Hieronymus, our all, Bosch.

Polina Sokolova talked journalists portal "Polenta" and learned in the course of the conversation a lot about unusual cultural phenomenon, its origins and prospects. So what is the housing of the art and how to live with people who are trying to forcibly turn our lives into a celebration, in such an unusual way?

Lord You're beautiful Your face looking for

Pauline was born and raised in the small suburban town of Voskresensk, located 100 km from the capital. This town is boring, sir, and may not offer its residents no decent job, no cultural entertainment. For residents of the province, the only way to decorate your life was yard work that did not require any investment, nor is the special sense of taste and style.

A time to scatter stones and a time to paint the stones

Designer Sokolova accurately formulated what the utilities-art, and add to, in our opinion, absolutely nothing:

So, not that you thought about it. But "art" is, first of all, art. Can you claim Cheburashka from pots and garlands of beer cans on the proud title of the art facilities? The author has answered this question. In her opinion, housing art is not the art as long as they will not take seriously criticism and while the creators of the yard "galleries" do not begin to treat their creations as works.

Simple and tasteful

To date this has not happened yet, so the phenomenon can be described simply as a cultural phenomenon that originated in the former Soviet Union. Polina puts the courts in style housing-art in a number of similar facilities in other countries: the Mexican island of lost dolls, a Finnish Park of veio Rankinen and yard Boda Latnenskoe in France. The expert believes that we are dealing with a completely different phenomenon, the origins of which are rooted in the Soviet past.

From the point of view of housing art this composition is perfect, here in full only

An important difference between the domestic housing art and foreign art the author of the study considers the origin of the objects. If the world prefer to use ready-made objects, such as dolls, cars or appliances, we made literally on the knee and from the most obvious junk and debris.

Dwornicki from the underworld. Scale 1:1. It happens sometimes

The swans out of tires, enamelled basins mushrooms and sculptures made of PET containers are only found with us. In simple words, the domestic housing-art — creativity is ruthless in its extreme manifestation, when something is going in the literal sense of the word "g....on and sticks." This is due, primarily, to the fact that people have nothing, except the desire to decorate your life.

Some art objects already have their audience

Polina Sokolova yet did not see specific genres, and can only distinguish objects according to the materials from which they are made: old kitchen utensils, tires, packaging, old toys. But the designer describes in his book type products housing art.

Sometimes toys are back... And then not wait for mercy

The author divides the work into the following types: the Baptist-beds (articles made of tires and packaging), tire art (sculpture out of old tires), soft Kingdom (separate soft toys and composition of them), Homo Insipiens (a manifestation of the unreasonable and misunderstood), temples of the soul (religious objects and totems), urban group ensembles (when the work covers a few yards or a quarter) and, in fact, housing art from emerging, but not yet recognized by the experts of art.

Whether it bee?

Gave the definition of Pauline and the authors of the works occupied our yards. In her opinion, this art are those who have no work and a lot of free time. The motivation of such people is different — someone is trying to escape from loneliness, someone is looking for self-realization, and someone actually believes that busy real art.

The clarity of this song rolls

Have replied to the question about where the origins of the housing of the art. According to her, widespread in the former Soviet Union violence to the sense of beauty originated in ancient times and originated from idolatry. Over time, the phenomenon of a lost pagan roots, got a slope in Christianity, but the Soviet era emasculated him completely, leaving only a decorative effect, so-called "Soviet utilities-art".

Hostage housing art. Or the victim?

The first works utilities-art appeared not yesterday, and in 60-70 years of XX century. At this time there are many new buildings with big, empty courtyards. The people who came in the "concrete jungle" of the cozy private sector or a compact populated yards of pre-revolutionary and pre-war building, sought to create comfort and beauty, without neglecting any methods and materials.

Such is Saved on the Tires

Of course, in those days, the opportunities for such decorations were quite limited, so the packaging industry is almost completely absent, and the tires have not filled landfills and vacant lots. The next generation created by the efforts of settlers seemed miserable and petty-bourgeois and therefore the first samples of housing art ruthlessly destroyed.

The main thing — not to stumble in the night

Today, the attitude to housing-art is ambiguous — in some people it causes culture shock and rejection, others with interest and approval. According to Polina Sokolova, today's youth are much more friendly attitude to yard work, and it gradually ceases to be associated with new generations of poverty, squalor and bad taste.

Soon it will become a full-fledged art

I want to add a bit of ourselves. Does the approval of the youth housing-art progressive degradation and degeneration of modern society? People who do not know who Repin, Vasnetsov, replace that void Cheburashka with garbage, and modern "experts" are trying to attract to this tasteless hell unhappy contemporary art, which is more to endure.