A quarter of a century ago, Nikola-Lenivets was founded as a settlement by artists, architects and designers who left cities for the sake of practicing the arts in the wild. Nowadays it is the biggest art and landscape park in Europe which occupies more than
600 hectares of land. Dozens of giant installations are situated here, although some of them were burned down during
the traditional Slavic holiday, Maslenitsa aka Butter Week. It is symbolic that Makhalych (from Russian word «makhat’» —
«to wave» or «to flap») will be built here for the Burning Man Festival.
The kinetic sculpture Makhalych, which will be featured at the Burning Man 2016, is yet another incarnation of a russian architect and the founder of Nikola-Lenivets Vasily Schetinin’s character «Icarushka» (a Russian intimate hypocorism for Icarus)
600 hectares of land. Dozens of giant installations are situated here, although some of them were burned down during
the traditional Slavic holiday, Maslenitsa aka Butter Week. It is symbolic that Makhalych (from Russian word «makhat’» —
«to wave» or «to flap») will be built here for the Burning Man Festival.
The kinetic sculpture Makhalych, which will be featured at the Burning Man 2016, is yet another incarnation of a russian architect and the founder of Nikola-Lenivets Vasily Schetinin’s character «Icarushka» (a Russian intimate hypocorism for Icarus)
Prototype of kinetic sculpture «Makhalych»
Linocut postcards printed by hand which show the grand journey of Makhalych from the heart of Russia, Nikola-Lenivets,
to the epicenter of the Burning Man — the Black Rock Desert.
to the epicenter of the Burning Man — the Black Rock Desert.
Working process
Linocut postcards «Makhalych under the Black Rock Desert»
Linocut postcards «Makhalych under the NIkola-Lenivets»
Special handmade sertificat
Working process
