“My country resists even like this” – Corriere.it
A long and very slow journey between a thousand checkpoints and tires punctured by the windows on the road, dodging missiles and bombs. Away from his Kharkiv reduced to rubble, towards Venice. In time for the Biennale. «My flight was not an escape» Pavlo Makov, a Russian artist with Ukrainian citizenship, selected months ago to represent his adopted country at the International Art Exhibition in the lagoon. “They have my country theirs, but they don’t animate it, that’s why I want to be there»He recounts with the most tired and dejected voice of when, at the end of February, he answered from the basement of the university overlooking Piazza dell’Indipendenza, where he sought protection with his wife Marina and his 93-year-old mother.
On March 2, he loaded his women, two other ladies and the cat in, and got behind the wheel for Italy. Kharkiv, Poltava, Vinniza and finally across the border into Moldova. “They let me through just because I’m 63, there is nothing special, heroic about this, the heroes are the ones at the front, the Russians can’t fight against the army and they rage on civilians” he says with the suffering voice. Almost exhausted. AND “Fountain of exhaustion»Is the title of his installation for the Biennale. Imposing with its 78 bronze funnels. Disassembled in Kiev and brought to safety by the curator Maria Lanko, they are now being reassembled in Milan. A reflection on the exploitation of natural resources that is now changing on the exhaustion of emotional resources caused by this “cowardly war.”“. «On 23 April I will be at the inauguration, after I don’t know where we will go, we no longer have a home. I wish I could come back ».
March 31, 2022 (change March 31, 2022 | 23:40)
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