Vladimir Arkhipov - Home-Made - Contemporary Russian Folk Artifacts

"La pénurie stimule l'imagination et la créativité. Comment monter une lampe à partir d'un chapeau de paille ou transformer un plateau de capsules de bières en paillasson. Le collectionneur Vladimir Arkhipov a exhumé de l'ancienne URSS des centaines d'objets de survie nés de la débrouille et de la bidouille. (...) L'inventaire de ces ready-made soviétiques tient au final dans un ouvrage réjouissant, à mi-chemin du catalogue Manufrance et du poème Dada." Beaux-Arts Magazine - Septembre 2006, p.37.
J'ai ajouté à cette notule le libellé 2020, parce que, développement durable aidant ou pénurie forcée, il va bien falloir apprendre à recycler davantage, à consommer moins de tous ces objets qu'avec un peu d'astuce et de bricolage on peut fabriquer soi-même.



The clever, bizarre and poignant DIY housewares that fill the pages of Home-Made: Contemporary Russian Folk Artifacts have stories to tell. They communicate the textures of the lives of ordinary Russians during the collapse of the Soviet Union, they highlight alternatives to factory design and disposable goods, and they speak volumes about what goes on in other people's homes--how they spend and scrimp, how they make do. Home-Made highlights the best of the everyday objects made by ordinary Russians during and around the time of the Soviet Union's decline. Many were inspired by a lack of access to manufactured goods. Among the hundreds of idiosyncratic constructions for inside and outside the home are a back massager from a wooden abacus, a television antenna from unwanted forks, and a tiny bathtub plug from a boot heel. The author is himself a self-taught artist: he began exhibiting his own objects and installations in 1990, and collecting and cataloging these everyday, utilitarian objects handmade from modern materials a dozen years ago, in 1994. He accompanies each invaluable artifact with a photograph of the maker and his or her story. Foreward by Susan B. Glasser of the Washington Post Foreign Service. From amazon.com