5th Land Art Festival in Poland: 'Art like a river'

Motto of this year's edition and the starting point for the invited artists' search is the river – not only in the geographical aspect, but as a symbol of the element and its power, a border, a revival or passing. Rivers since times immemorial have been both the greatest obstacle in man's migrations and an ideal place to settle, a destructive and life-giving force.
The wild and untamed Bur river will become the source of inspiration to artists of different fields of arts, generations and from different corners of the world. Photographer, film-makers from the Wajda School, creators of ads, a street artist, fames of land art such as Teresa Murak, American artist Roy Staab known worldwide for his ephemeral installations prepared around the world, Australian Elaine Clocherty, designer Dorota Koziara, a musician and social activist Jerzy “Słoma” Słomiński, an Italian designer Duilio Forte and Korean sculptor Bongi Park as well as artists from Belarus and Bulgaria will meet in the Podlasie Bug Gorge Landscape Park. Representatives of the young generation will work along established artists (Sławomir Marzec, Jarosław Lustych or Jarosław Koziara).
Their works will constitute a dialogue with the surroundings and the common natural legacy. They will draw our attention to nature and meanings it has always carried for man. There will be works to watch and to listen, engaged and touching upon very specific problems arising from the progress of civilization as well as works that will bring out the park's natural beauty. We will, for example, take a closer look at the extraordinary creature that a bee is, we will get to know the surprising side of the local residents and the mysterious Bug, a river that destroys and at the same time provides shelter, like a house, is a witness of human existence and the passing time.
Land Art Festival is an event which migrates through those places which are particularly precious on the Lublin's region map, but do not constitute economic or cultural centres. For the fifth time, our audience will take a trip to the bosom of nature and will experience how art can blossom in harmony with nature, away from big cities and can encourage to ponder on the relations between man and nature. The artists find still new context for this relation and demonstrate how aesthetics can coexist with ethics. The diversity of artists is the best proof of how open and actual can contemporary nature art be. The works left in the area will be surprising random tourists and walkers long time after the opening.

5th Land Art Festival July 1st – 11th, 2015

 Podlasie Bug Gorge Landscape Park

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