04.09.2022
Nikolai Ryndin
Deviantilism Manifesto*
Nikolai Ryndin is an artist, teacher at the Moscow Central School of Art (MCAA) of the Russian Academy of Arts, author and host of the independent YouTube channel about art “Artobstrel”.
Deviantilism Manifesto:
- physical destruction of the object / destruction of the object's function
- documentation of destruction / deformation
- destruction = creation
- destruction = the beginning of a new history
- restoration = destruction
- destruction as a cultural code
- destruction not as an act of affect and mental confusion, but as a conscious act
Something to build on:
- the ruins and hulks of temples
- erased frescoes, barely recognizable silhouettes of saints
- irreparable loss of the colorful layer on icon boards
- a half-rotten hut with gray timbers and porosol on the roofs
- a gnarled fence that protects nothing
- a gate in the field that leads nowhere
- a rusty truck with no wheels and no windows
- black seams on paneled houses
- bare concrete with rebar sticking out of it
- old tires of all colors and swans made of them
- a broken jug, a lid and a rusty cast iron
- zigzag bridge with sparse planks
Constituents of the work:
- inversion
- paradox
- contrast
- duality
- uncertainty
- uncertainty
- randomness
Through loss we learn the true value of what we have lost. the Buddha statues destroyed by the taliban have gained much more significance than before. the same is true of the temple of christ the savior. unfortunately, the restoration of the temple has negatively affected the image of the previously lost historical object. our russian architecture, frescoes and iconography are valuable together with losses, and losses are taken for granted. it is impossible to imagine russian culture without losses, just as it is impossible to imagine christ crucified without Judas.
The human act of destroying a cultural monument can be compared to natural disasters in nature, be it a tornado or a hurricane. but people are part of this nature. a person who destroys is one of the hypostases of a being, be it a person who loves, grieves or laughs.
Many natural acts of destruction of physical matter are extended in time and are natural, but I encourage you to be inspired by them in the short period of time it takes to create an object of art, in the desire to achieve a similar “nerve”. just as when we are inspired by the beauty of nature by painting it, in a vain attempt to replicate it, for it is impossible.
