Art-installation MOVA will be mounted in Adam Mitskevich Park in Minsk with the aid of A1

This spring a series of art-installations, a set of interactive letters that together make up a monumental word MOVA will be mounted in six largest Belarusian cities. They will appear in Minsk in Adam Mitskevich park. Moreover, art-installations will decorate the streets of Brest, Vitebsk, Grodno, Gomel and Mogilev. This is a project realized by A1 together with the initiative named as The Greatness of the Mother Language.

Every letter of the installation is a piece of outdoor furniture made out of wood and metal, comfortable for chilling out and has an own color – this is a key element of the project. The idea of the creator of these art-installations, a well-known Belarusian sculptor Pavel Voinitsky, is that the range of colors used for the sculptures is unique for every city. All of them were selected with the aim to demonstrate specific local, cultural, historic and landscape features.

Red, black, green, yellow or gold, grey and different shades of blue – these are the main colors that for centuries surrounded Belarusians in everyday life, architecture and nature which is reflected in the research works MOVA project idea is based on, i.e. a concept of national color preferences from a designer, artist and poet Mikhail Anempodistov (illustrated in his book The Color of Belarus) as well as reconstructions of the folk costumes by an ethnographer Mikhail Romanyuk.

Minsk is a geographic, social and cultural centre of the country that combines specifics of different regions. That is why all key colors, i.e. blue, green, yellow, red and black were selected for the installations in Minsk. Monumental letters MOVA will appear at the intersection of Gorodskoi Val and Nemiga, in the park of Adam Mitskevich.

This location is not accidental – it is a historic centre of the city accessible for locals and for tourists. What is important in the context of this project is that this area is named after Adam Mitskevich, one of the greatest Romantic poets who used to show the beauty of Belarusian soil in his works. Apart from art-installation A1 is planning to create a free WiFi area in the park.

In Brest such an installation will be mounted on the intersection of ulitsa Sovetskaya and Francis Skorina embankment made of a harmonic combination of green, various shades of blue, red and black. In Vitebsk MOVA will appear in front of 1000th anniversary bridge at ulitsa Lenina in characteristic colors of the creative association UNOVIS, i.e. yellow, red, black, gold and blue. Yellow, different shades of blue, red and black is a combination selected for the architectural objects at ulitsa Mostovaya in Grodno. At ulitsa Kirova in Gomel there will be an installation of blue, yellow, grey, red and black symbols. At Troitskaya embankment in Mogilev, they selected green, blue, yellow, red and black. Art-installations in all cities are planned to be mounted before end of spring.