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Ship of fools or a wooden skyscraper for the jolly company, Whimsical,…
Ship of fools or a wooden skyscraper for the jolly company
Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin
Restricted creativity in the Soviet Union
limits and penalties for architectural design
modern day "fools"?
sense of achievement
any common man walks up to the "wooden skyscaper"
feel powerful
seas of time
"ship"=humanity
Cold war
futuristic
Whimsical constructivism
a tool for social activism
relationship between art and society
objective reality
fragile skyscraper
the jolly company
contradicting their own thoughts and ideologies
fragile ideologies
Section, elevation, axon.
Unstable skyscraper, happy inhabitants
Utopic ideal in dystopia surroundings
Alienation
loss of Moscow's traditional architecture
defying uniform Soviet Union architecture
State sanctioned
Wooden Skyscraper with powerful people, surrounded by the smaller structures. One Blow by everyone is all it takes to bring them down
Jolly Company
To assist Lefort, Peter first built Lefort a large dining hall, and when that grew to be too small, he built him a fully furnished stone mansion with a banquet hall that could hold 1,500 men
Among the guests, Brodsky and Utkin are seen, drinking and enjoying
The Jolly Company eventually formed a group known as The All-Joking, All-Drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters, which had a "Prince-Pope", a college of cardinals, bishops, archimandrites, priests and deacons.
Together, the "cohesive group" often wandered the countryside and interrupted noblemen, asking for food and shelter for the night. Known as the "Jolly Company", it had anywhere from 80 to 200 members.
Whimsical
chaos and potential of human ingenuity, and the impossible, mind-bending
inspired by Russian history and folklore
Wandering egg.
Peranesi's etching of Rome
Utopian ideals of past centuries
original painting by Bosch
system not based on expert knowledge
wooden skyscapper
expression of dominance?
ship of fools
an allegory
