The artist Vladimir Seleznev, in the company of the curator Vladislav Efimov, talks about his project "Oseyev", devoted to an invented utopian metropolis, the result of uncontrolled standardised building on urban land, which proved to be unwanted and fell

The artist Vladimir Seleznev, in the company of the curator Vladislav Efimov, talks about his project "Oseyev", devoted to an invented utopian metropolis, the result of uncontrolled standardised building on urban land, which proved to be unwanted and fell into decline. Seleznev problematises the frenzied mass construction in Moscow and on the territories around the MKAD, as if asking the question of the demand for its countless residential square metres, a question that, I think, occurs to many of us every now and then. Vladimir Seleznev's photographs show a woeful landscape of half-empty new-build blocks amid the depressive scenery of wrecked cars and assorted gullies and wastelands, all of which is nonetheless presented as a developer's offer, only whom might it interest, and on what terms? A most cosy exhibition, "Routes of Communication", featuring 10 other photographers, opens on 1 October at the PennLab photography gallery near Savyolovskaya

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

The artist Vladimir Seleznev, in the company of the curator Vladislav Efimov, talks about his project "Oseyev", devoted to an invented utopian metropolis, the result of uncontrolled standardised building on urban land, which proved to be unwanted and fell

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

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