Russian garden “Avangarden” was successfully presented at the 27th International Garden Festival in Chaumont-sur-Loire.
To the exposition in Chaumont-sur-Loire were admitted 28 gardens of 300 declared, passed serious selection. Their creators were able to formulate ideas, using flowers and trees, water and earth, color and light in French gardens along the most historic river – the Loire.
The theme of this season in Chaumont-sur-Loire was the “Gardens of Thought”. It comes from french “Jardins de la pensée”. The central flower is the pansies (homonym of “thoughts”, also “pensée”).
The gardens were planned by landscape artists, gardeners, architects, anthropologists, geographers and even cabinetmakers. The Avangarden was created by a team of three women: Olga Podolskaya (subject and interior designer), Olga Cherdantseva (landscape architect, keeper of the gardens of the Russian Museum) and Margarita Syrtsova (branding specialist, graphic design department of St. Petersburg State University).
The source of their inspiration was the work of Mayakovsky and El-Lisitsky.
“We created a Russian garden in the spirit of avant-garde, the brightest phenomenon in Russian art,” says Olga Podolskaya.
“The era of Russian avant-garde has touched all directions – painting, architecture, graphics, design, poetry, fashion and cinema. Mayakovsky and Lisitsky, some of the most notable creative personalities of that period. Along with Malevich and Kandinsky, they made huge contribution to the formation of the avant-garde in the form as it is perceived throughout the world. The purity of composition, minimalism of forms and colors give birth to inexhaustible source, through the prism of which everyone can see something of his own.”
The tree, which became the center of the composition, was chosen over the age-old. Specially. He is 180 years old and he is a living witness of History and stories.
“The tree is the key figure of our garden,” continues Olga. “It symbolizes the silent witness of many real events, including uprisings, revolutions, kisses of lovers, birth and death. The red circle is a symbol of life. Inclusions of red flowers against the background of black vegetation inside the circle. Like drops of blood – a sign of a new nascent life.”
Interesting work of the Japanese team, the Frenchman Florentena Bursero, Ulli Heckmann and the group “Landscapists without borders” are represented in the gallery of images dedicated to Chaumont-sur-Loire.
More information about the International Garden Festival in Chaumont-sur-Loire is available at the “L’observateur Russe“.
