City from the Dungeon
  • Раздел: Monographs of artists and about artists
  • Название: City from the Dungeon
  • Автор / Редактор: 0331c, Grisha, Alex Partola (PRTL); Ekaterina Novokshonova (text)
  • Год издания: 2021
  • Издательство: OS
  • Язык: Русский
  • ISBN: 9785990575752
  • Ключевые слова: street art, GRISHA, Alexei Partola, 0331c, graffiti, The Catacombs of Paris, photo
Description

From the foreword:

"City from the Dungeon is a joint project and also a journey to Paris in 2019 by three Moscow artists - Alex Partola, 0331c and Grisha. The object of their artistic interest was the dark, cold world of the quarries of Paris, whose history begins in Antiquity...

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The reality of events during the journey and the photographic record of what was observed, as well as the experience of being in different landscapes of one city, is divided into two chapters in the book - the world of the surface (The City) and the subterranean world (The Dungeon) - simultaneously creating different time layers that interpenetrate, one to the other

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The key leitmotif that unites both parts of the project is Aristide Maillol's classical sculpture of The Three Graces, which 0331c first sketched in an album on a stroll through the Tuileries Garden and then carved as an image on the limestone wall of a secret underground room.

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A personal description of this descent into underground Paris is given by each of the participants and becomes a fascinating 'subject of conversation' on the pages of this publication"

Ekaterina Novokshonova