04.09.2022
Nikolay Ryndin
The Manifesto of Deviantilism*
Nikolay Ryndin is an artist, teacher at the Moscow Central School of Art (MCSH) at the Russian Academy of Arts, and author and host of the "Art Shooting" independent YouTube channel about art.
The Manifesto of Deviantilism*
- 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 clouding, but as a deliberate act
that - what should be relied upon:
- the ruins and remains of temples.
- erased frescoes, barely discernible silhouettes of saints
- the irrecoverable loss of paint on icon boards
- half-decayed huts with gray timbers and powdered roofs
- a crumbling fence that fences off nothing
- a gate in a field that leads nowhere.
- a rusty truck with no wheels or windows.
- black joints on paneled houses.
- Bare concrete and rebar sticking out of it.
- old tires and swans made of them.
- broken jug, jug, and rusty pig-iron.
- a zigzag bridge with sparse boards
components of the work:
- inversion
- paradox
- contrast
- duality
- uncertainty
- uncertainty
- randomness
The statues of Buddha destroyed by the Taliban have gained much more significance than before. it is the same with the temple of christ the savior. unfortunately the restoration of the temple negatively affected the image of the previously lost object of history. our Russian architecture, frescos and iconography are valuable along 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. the person destroying is one of the hypostases of a being, be it a person loving, grieving or laughing.
many natural acts of destruction of physical matter are stretched out in time and are natural, but I urge that we be inspired by them in the short span of time of creating 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.
