Newnovosibirsk Project

The creators of the Newnovosibirsk project are artists Alexei Belyayev-Gintovt and Andrei Molodkin, photographer Gleb Kosorukov, and composer Dmitry Maximovich Shostakovich. The project consists of three sections - seven monumental pictures in ball-point pen on primed canvas by Alexei Belyayev-Gintovt and Andrei Molodkin; a series of twelve Monument photographs by Gleb Kosorukov; and a march entitled Our Victory specially composed by Dmitry Shostakovich. The artists consider that their works reflect the desire for "the decades of gloomy Dionysian stagnation to give way to Apollonic clarity." Propagating this "new seriousness", the authors have created a conceptual design of a new city of the future near Novosibirsk - a town located in the geometrical centre of Eurasia, the cradle of universal traditions. The monuments of this new city are a visual incarnation of the great dream of a strong and independent Russia looking fearlessly into the future.