Yuriy Litvinov: A Light Installation "Live Light"
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| One of the art pieces "P-Town" |
The Art Installation, an essentially dynamic expression, addresses change over permanence over change. One views a painting or a sculpture, but one participates in an installation. A good installation can be profoundly simple and yet challenging.
Yuriy Litvinov began in a place both static and dynamic: the Provincetown Waterfront. Here earth, water, wind and sun express their powers and their boundaries. While each depends on the other, neither can be the other. We have all experienced both their individual powers and their limitations.
That’s where Yuriy steps in… or rather, invites us to step into his altered reality. In his world, light does not come from above, but from under foot. “Don’t be afraid to step on it,” he advises. Yet most find that hard to do. Furthermore, each day during the installation, the beach sand underfoot grows and the light keeps breaking through. Light breaks into columns like plants and erupt upward.
From a window in the installation, small lights glow and twist into infinity “just around the bend.” In a second light frame, lights dimly create a runway into infinity and what we see in the center of the space is a reflection of ourselves.Above all, to enter his experience, return night after night and see the installation evolve. spend a few minutes seeing and, more so, take count of your own emotional reaction to it. Take a few moments inside the room or outside to take in the location on the water’s edge with the sounds of the harbor, the town and feel the breeze whispering against your skin. Depending where the ocean is in its diurnal cycle of high and low tides, smell the tides. Let all your senses realign to our ever-changing reality.
Yuriy is there nightly and more than willing to share your reflections. (Some people just go overboard to initiate a conversation!) Once you return to your daily world only one question will remain: Can you swim in the same river twice? Does light only come from one source?
The Project: "Leave Your Mark In The History Of Provincetown"
The Project was designed by the Why Litvinov team for Pioneer Foundation as a means to get involved into the art education through direct experience. Kids of different ages were invited to "leave a mark" on the gigantic canvas installed on a pier in Provincetown which would later become a sculptural message to the generations about sophisticated concepts of art within a specific locus. The mission of the project was to make little artist feel free to express their emotions and feelings through different media while being a part of a team of one canvas.
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