Saturday, the 19th of September

Our Saturday was busy and enjoyable.

We didn’t plan to attend Gogolfest intentionally. It was on our way from the state office where Konstantin got his passport for international trips to the bus stop, from where we would go to his nephew Vadik.

So, what is Gogolfest? Gogolfest is the art festival that gathers the best of the world art in Ukraine. Music, theater perfomances, art gallery, historic artefacts are presented there. Why it has such a strange name? Gogol – is surname of the famous Ukrainian/Russian writer who was known as an excentric man. ~fest – is for festival.

Sculptures in the yard

 Sculptures above are the first what you see when you enter. They are located in the yard of Gogolfest place.

My impression of the interior – “I love it!” It was something unfinished, something that can be broken in every minute, ruins in some parts! If only it had more lovely content!

Really! When I saw that (see photo below) I relized that I didn’t suppose to love modern art.

Modern art gallery

Naked bodies (of women of course, man’s body is not considered as art %/) were dominant on pictures, sculptures. If only they was beautiful! You see, I consider classic adoration to naked beauty is only natural. But I do not love when it becomes vulgar. Or another sample of art were “dead” bodies, presentation of torture … We were in a hurry to leave that modern art gallery.

Another part of exibition was about historic Ukrainian artefacts. Indeed, for me it was much more interesting! First, interior was different. It was light, straw was lying near entrance and consequently smelling.

Gallery

Second, exibit item was more convenient to me.

Artefacts

Third, video projection was presented there! and I liked it the most! unfortunately we didn’t took video-camera with us but we took a picture of video

Video projection

And that was really beautiful!

Then we spent some quality time with Konstantin’s nephew Vadik. He was sick a little but wanted so much to play on the blown slide!

VadikSlidingWe had really much fun!!! And we all regreted that we were not kids and weren't allowed to slide too!!!"Hi, mommy, uncle and aunty"

After that we bought a tooth paste. Wy would I mention that? Because it was the first time when we bought “Paradontax” and loved an annotation on it “The harbs and mineral salt give Paradontax an unusual taste, but you will quickly get used to it”.  -> “You’ve been warned!’ And taste is really remarkable, and it is so hard to wash it out of the mouth. We spent our evening watching really wonderful film of Japanese director Takeshi Kitano named “Kikujiro”. It is romantic but without love between man and woman, it is dramatic, and it has such an interesting humor I didn’t know before The film is about boy who was looking for his mother and a man who sometimes “helped” hime and sometimes really helped. We watched it in Japanese with English subtitles, I think that the original language is very important to perceive it correctly.

Kikujiro

And how’s your Saturday, Sunday … ?