Nikolay Polissky

Land-artist. Starting 2000th he was creating most his works in the village Nikola Lenivets, the Kaluga Region, four hours drive from Moscow, from expedient materials and in co-authorship with the local villagers, an international festival of landscape architecture “ArchStoyanie” has been passing here since 2003.

Nikolay Polissky is the only land-artist in modern Russian Art. His art may be called Utopian, both in social and art sense. And moreover, this Utopia is materialized Utopia. In social determination, Polissky succeeded in depicting and reviving a semi-abandoned village, with help of Art turning it into a real cultural center and making its inhabitants real participants of a creative process. «Large Hadron Collider» is a work from a new project, invented by Nikolay Polissky. Now the unpuddled mirror of people’s conscience must reflect not classic inheritance of the World Architecture, but the latest scientific achievements. The «Hadron Collider» by Polissky and his co-authors, first of all interests with that half-mystical aureole mantling modern science. Contemporary scientists for Polissky are kind of oracles, privy to secrets of universe hidden for ordinary people, and maybe even capable to influence forces ruling the world. And that is not that far from truth: few of us can really explain how the Large Hadron Collider is constructed and what purposes it serves. Scientific world view, same as magical or religious world view may only be taken for granted. The « Large Hadron Collider» by Polissky and co-authors is a simulated implementation of that very machine, from which God may emerge.
Irina Kulik