Leonid Tishkov
"Private Moon", 2003 -
ENG “Private Moon”is a visual poem telling the story of a man who met the Moon and stayed with her for the rest of his life. In the upper world, in fact in the attic of his own house, he saw the Moon falling off from the sky. Once she was hiding from the Sun in a dark and damp tunnel. But the passing trains frightened her. Now she came to this man’s house. Having wrapped the Moon with warm blankets he treated her with autumn apples, gave her a cup of tea, and when she got well he took her in his boat across the dark river to the high bank overgrown with moon pine-trees. He descended into the lower world dressed in the clothes of his deceased father and then returned from there lighting up his path with his personal Moon. Crossing the borderline between the two worlds across a narrow bridge, immersed in a dream and taking care of this heavenly creature, the man became a mythological being living in a real world as in a fairytale. Each photograph is a poetic tale, a little poem in its own right. Therefore each picture is accompanied by my own verse, which I wrote when I drew my sketches for the photographs. So it turns out that the Moon overcomes our loneliness in the universe uniting many of us around it.”
FR « Private Moon » est un poème visuel qui raconte l’histoire d’un homme qui a rencontré la Lune et qui est resté avec elle pour le reste de sa vie. Dans le monde supérieur, en fait dans le grenier de sa propre maison, il a vu la Lune tomber du ciel. Une fois, elle se cachait du Soleil dans un tunnel sombre et humide. Mais les trains qui passaient l’effrayaient. Maintenant, elle est venue à la maison de cet homme. Après avoir enveloppé la Lune avec des couvertures chaudes, il l’a traitée avec des pommes d’automne, lui a donné une tasse de thé, et quand elle s’est rétablie, il l’a emmenée dans sa barque à travers la rivière sombre à la haute rive envahie de pins lunaires. Il descendit dans le monde inférieur vêtu des vêtements de son défunt père et en revint en illuminant son chemin avec sa Lune personnelle. Traversant la frontière entre les deux mondes à travers un pont étroit, plongé dans un rêve et prenant soin de cette créature céleste, l’homme est devenu un être mythologique vivant dans un monde réel comme dans un conte de fées. Chaque photographie est un conte poétique, un poème à part entière. Par conséquent chaque image est accompagnée de mon propre vers, que j’ai écrit lorsque j’ai dessiné mes croquis pour les photographies. Il s’avère donc que la lune surmonte notre solitude dans l’univers en unissant nombre d’entre nous ».
ENG “Private Moon”is a visual poem telling the story of a man who met the Moon and stayed with her for the rest of his life. In the upper world, in fact in the attic of his own house, he saw the Moon falling off from the sky. Once she was hiding from the Sun in a dark and damp tunnel. But the passing trains frightened her. Now she came to this man’s house. Having wrapped the Moon with warm blankets he treated her with autumn apples, gave her a cup of tea, and when she got well he took her in his boat across the dark river to the high bank overgrown with moon pine-trees. He descended into the lower world dressed in the clothes of his deceased father and then returned from there lighting up his path with his personal Moon. Crossing the borderline between the two worlds across a narrow bridge, immersed in a dream and taking care of this heavenly creature, the man became a mythological being living in a real world as in a fairytale. Each photograph is a poetic tale, a little poem in its own right. Therefore each picture is accompanied by my own verse, which I wrote when I drew my sketches for the photographs. So it turns out that the Moon overcomes our loneliness in the universe uniting many of us around it.”
FR « Private Moon » est un poème visuel qui raconte l’histoire d’un homme qui a rencontré la Lune et qui est resté avec elle pour le reste de sa vie. Dans le monde supérieur, en fait dans le grenier de sa propre maison, il a vu la Lune tomber du ciel. Une fois, elle se cachait du Soleil dans un tunnel sombre et humide. Mais les trains qui passaient l’effrayaient. Maintenant, elle est venue à la maison de cet homme. Après avoir enveloppé la Lune avec des couvertures chaudes, il l’a traitée avec des pommes d’automne, lui a donné une tasse de thé, et quand elle s’est rétablie, il l’a emmenée dans sa barque à travers la rivière sombre à la haute rive envahie de pins lunaires. Il descendit dans le monde inférieur vêtu des vêtements de son défunt père et en revint en illuminant son chemin avec sa Lune personnelle. Traversant la frontière entre les deux mondes à travers un pont étroit, plongé dans un rêve et prenant soin de cette créature céleste, l’homme est devenu un être mythologique vivant dans un monde réel comme dans un conte de fées. Chaque photographie est un conte poétique, un poème à part entière. Par conséquent chaque image est accompagnée de mon propre vers, que j’ai écrit lorsque j’ai dessiné mes croquis pour les photographies. Il s’avère donc que la lune surmonte notre solitude dans l’univers en unissant nombre d’entre nous ».
Leonid Tishkov
"Ladomir" album, 2006
"Ladomir" is devoted to an important futurologist and poet of the 20th century, Velimir Khlebnikov, as well as other avant -guardists: artist Kasimir Malevitch, scientists Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Alexander Tсhijevsky and finally philosopher Nikolai Federov.
In the year 1921 Chlebnikov wrote the utopic poem Ladomir about a world of perfect harmony bringing together people of different upbringings, religions and longings. United for a better future they build a new shiny world. At the same time, the inhabitants of Ladomir are prototypes for the chairmen of the “Council of Earth”.
Drawing of "Ladomir" album represent Malevitch’s “Architectones”, Tatlin’s towers and Popov’s aerials; the town is surmounted by the golden nest house, planes and “flying Tatlins”. It is a fragile, poetic world which stayed a futuristic dream after the Russian Revolution, its volatileness may remind us of a possibility of another, ideal world.
"Ladomir" is devoted to an important futurologist and poet of the 20th century, Velimir Khlebnikov, as well as other avant -guardists: artist Kasimir Malevitch, scientists Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Alexander Tсhijevsky and finally philosopher Nikolai Federov.
In the year 1921 Chlebnikov wrote the utopic poem Ladomir about a world of perfect harmony bringing together people of different upbringings, religions and longings. United for a better future they build a new shiny world. At the same time, the inhabitants of Ladomir are prototypes for the chairmen of the “Council of Earth”.
Drawing of "Ladomir" album represent Malevitch’s “Architectones”, Tatlin’s towers and Popov’s aerials; the town is surmounted by the golden nest house, planes and “flying Tatlins”. It is a fragile, poetic world which stayed a futuristic dream after the Russian Revolution, its volatileness may remind us of a possibility of another, ideal world.
