I'm an artist Dmitry Kawarga built the 21 metres tower from the abandoned building of a wood factory in the backwoods of Russia far from big cities.
Known as a skete, or even a temple, this hybrid structure combines the tradition of monastic seclusion with the way of life of a man who exercises art as spiritual practice.
To anyone climbing inside the tower, the ascent is symbolic. Working one's way through the monstrous structure of a factory… rising up through a column of industrial scrap and waste… then standing aloft in the cupola space between sky and earth - free of the intrusions of materialism. Sounds from the composer Kryptogen Rundfunk reign from within this biomorphic cell - focusing the journeyman on the scattered fragments of the self - washing him down with nature's own elements.
In 2019 inside the 800 m2 building we started to collect a museum from the works of artists who is visiting Kawarga-Skete. Outside we are planing to make a park site-specific sculptures.
The intention is to charge the skete and its surroundings with samples of biomorphic-art - making it a hub of modern culture and an intersection for creativity.
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photo by Maxim Boykov
