GORODKA ?... INFOS !
Yesterday:
In 1970, Pierre Shasmoukine, visual artist (without financing nor assistance),
leaves Paris to invest a piece of timbered hill beside Sarlat (24)
Started with the pickaxe and finished with the bulldozer, it gives birth to
GORODKA, which becomes the first French realization of Earthwork
artistic movement born in the USA in the Sixties.
Gorodka is also one of the first great achievements of Land-art.
In 2008, after 38 years of various creative works, Pierre Shasmoukine always
directs Gorodka.
During all these years, Gorodka did not have ceased to evolve and innovate in
the creative one, the cultural one and the social one...
Some examples:
In 1979/84 Creation of the IRI, first business consultancy on renewable
energies, the habitat, adapted technologies,
agrobiology, small rural productions...
Activities recognized and financed by 5 ministries.
1984/1992 the Za Galleries, first experiments of art in nature. Galleries,
workshops, course, the whole open to the public.
The first lodgings
of artists in residence completely free in their creations.
Gorodka and its Za galleries exposed more than three hundred plastics
technicians and supported many multi-arts and intersector demonstrations.
TODAY:
Gorodka presents at public in the ludic and teaching way, more than four
hundred works of various designs of contemporary art:
surrealist art, singular art, kinetic art, art rough, Land-art, taken site,
installations, earthwork, conceptual humorous...
Without forgetting the writing (tales, poems, news...)
This on three courses in nature and eight galleries (six for the work of
P. Shasmoukine, two for the invited artists or with residence)
Gorodka is currently quoted in many guides:
French, Dutch, English, Scandinavians, American...
Gorodka is managed by association, «Za-Gorodka» which does not receive
any help or subsidy (deliberated rejection from the cultural and territorial
authorities) and lives only of its ticketting.
TO... COME:
Pierre Shasmoukine works towards his end.
He seeks contacts (media) which can be interested by the multiple
facets that the steps of such a place offer: culture, creation, art, social,
tourism, leisures, innovation without forgetting that Gorodka remains
single in such kind of realization.
He also seeks financial partners, in order to develop activities and ticketting.
All this to answer the final objective: that 40 years of artistic creations serve
a social and human cause...
...by the creation of a museum
foundation whose incomes of ticketting would
be transferred
with existing structures making effort in various field of exclusions. |
Gorodka is the first contemporary place of contemporary
creations, artistic and cultural achievements
with humane vocation.
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