ArtAi - Festival of dolls in the Altai mountains.
ArtAi - a quirk, a hobby or an original idea in the gallery's business?
Let's figure it out together! To explain the idea of holding a puppet exhibition far from civilization, in Gorny Altai, it is important to tell about this place.
Artay - the gallery is located in Gorny Altai at the Tsarskaya Okhota tourist complex. The place itself is unique. On the bank of the beautiful Katun River, a suspension bridge is installed, abutting the “Shaman's Trail” leading to the “Kamyshlinsky Waterfall”.
The gallery has developed as a modern art platform, lively and unconventional. It hosts exhibitions of Altai masters of painting and sculpture, creations from felt and leather, master classes and the sale of souvenirs in its own ceramics studio. Events and festivals are held on the site.
On the first floor of the gallery there is a cafe with a huge terrace and the best views of the mountains, where guests can enjoy a cup of coffee not only the works of art of Altai masters, but also the fogs over the stormy Katun River.
The exhibition of author's art dolls has become the central event of the tourist season.
Why? The answer on the surface: a designer doll is a synthesis of arts and crafts, a subtle and sophisticated combination of applied art and sculpture.
The time of the Festival in Altai fell on the peak of the tourist season. At this time, thousands of tourists from all over the world flock here.
The main mission of our Festival is to make high art organically integrate into the tourist flow, allowing viewers to enjoy the unusual show of puppetry, combining it with the contemplation of the amazing beauties and sights of Altai.
The Altai Doll Festival is an atmospheric exhibition not only for connoisseurs, collectors and gallery owners. This is a new “tourist magnet” that can surprise a grateful guest of Altai, become a useful and informative excursion for him, an opportunity to join one of the strongest in terms of the degree of influence on the viewer, a kind of contemporary art - the art of an author's art doll.
Today the Festival of Puppets in Altai includes more than 70 famous authors from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, inspired by our Land, and about 400 works, specially created masterpieces that look directly into the viewer's soul, conveying the author's reverent attitude to the world and art.
Our Festival takes 1st place in the nomination "Event in the field of popularization of event tourism" in the final of the regional competition of the National Award in the field of event tourism RussianEventAwards of the Siberian and Far Eastern Federal Districts.
Festival visitors were happy to buy their favorite works, took pictures with unique dolls. Everyone understood that after the exhibition the dolls would end up in private collections and become less accessible to the general public.
The three-year practice of holding such events has shown that visitors willingly purchase dolls as a memory of the location.
ArtAy gallery is filled with movement and captures the viewer. Master classes are held here, and what is especially important for families with children. After all, often a doll is an appeal to images from childhood. We live in a fast-paced "digital" time and an attempt to return to the child's consciousness is needed to save the inner world, not to harden the soul, to remain open to beauty and goodness.
In conclusion, I will give a couple of reviews from visitors to the exhibition:
- Masterpieces! which is generally unrealistic to come off! Thank you for this miracle! Greetings from Tula. 07/01/2021
- The exhibition fascinates and delights with its stunning works. Fairy-tale characters return to childhood, to a fairy tale. Each work is charming and unique. Such delicate work that it is scary to even breathe. Thank you for sharing the wonderful! Olga, Novosibirsk, 08/16/2021
- Thank you for the kind, sincere, real art, out of place and time! Barnaul, 2021
We invite you to feel the atmosphere of the holiday!
Material prepared Valery Kopytsky
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