Belarusian MOVA: A1 completed assembly of art-installations in the regions

А1 finished assembly of art-installations out of sculptured letters that all together form the word MOVA. Such light sculptures appeared in five regional Belarusian centres – Brest, Vitebsk, Gomel, Grodno and Mogilev. This is a project A1 has implemented together with the initiative The Greatness of the Native Language.

All letters are made as street furniture out of wood and metal and have own colors – this is a distinctive feature of the art-objects. According to their author, a well-known Belarusian sculptor Pavel Voinitsky, a set of colors for all installations was selected in order to demonstrate cultural, historic and landscape specifics of every region.

 

The idea of the project is sourced from the works of ethnographer, art expert, researcher of Belarusian material culture Mikhail Romanyuk as well as the concept of the designer, artist and poet Mikhail Anempodistov illustrated in the book The Colors of Belarus.

Red, black, green, yellow, grey and various shades of blue – these are the colors that throughout many centuries surrounded Belarusians in their domestic life, architecture and nature, that is why their combination is used as a basis for the said art project.

MOVA art installations now decorate Francis Skoryna embankment in Brest, Troitskaya embankment in Mogilev, the 1000th anniversary bridge in Vitebsk, Mostovaya ulitsa in Grodno as well as ulitsa Kirova and Sovetskaya in Gomel.