Art Weekend by PinchukArtCentre: PinchukArtCentre and Chilean artist Pilar Quinteros Invite Everyone to Take Part in an Outdoor Performance at Maidan in Kyiv, Ukraine

On Sunday, November 16, 2014 the PinchukArtCentre and Chilean artist Pilar Quinteros, one of 21 artists nominated for the Future Generation Art Prize, invite public to join a street performance called “Friendship of Peoples Fountain”. The participants will be helping the artist to build a cardboard reconstruction of the original Fountain that was removed from Maidan (Independence Square) in Kyiv, Ukraine after the renovations in 2001.

The event will begin at 12:00 next to the entrance of the PinchukArtCentre where all participants of the performance will get cardboard parts of the fountain made by Pilar Quinteros. They will help carry the pieces of the fountain to Maidan where the artist will assemble the work back on its original position.

The number of performance participants who will be helping the artist is limited to 80 people. Please register to the event by calling +38 044 590-08-58 or e-mailing to [email protected] 

We recommend the participants to wear comfortable footwear and warm clothes as the event will take place outdoor and will last for several hours.

Additionally, the artist and the PinchukArtCentre also invite all Kyiv habitants and guests of the capital to come and see the artistic performance at Maidan next to the Globus shopping mall glass dome while Pilar Quinteros will be reconstructing just for one day the iconic architectural object that used to be one of Kyiv’s symbols for many decades. The performance at Maidan begins at 13:00.

Pilar Quinteros, the artist: “Working on my project for the exhibition of the nominees for the Future Generation Art Prize I was looking for the information about Kyiv in the Internet and got to know about the “Friendship of Peoples Fountain” that was moved from Maidan to a small city Buki in 2001. Moving the fountain for replacing it to a shopping mall is a very significant act in a very significant place where people made protests and manifestations that is why I was really interested with the story about the fountain and what happened with it. What I am going to do in the framework of the performance is to reconstruct the central piece of the fountain with the help of Kyiv citizens by brining the pieces to Maidan where it was originally placed.”    

This performance comes from a sort of archeological research of previously disappeared significant architectural and sculptural aspects in the cityscape. Pilar Quinteros is reconstructing a memory however this is a failed reconstruction due to the material the artist has chosen - cardboard.