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Ephemeral Garden in St. Petersburg
Annotation
In 2014 upon the recomendation of the Foundation of parks and gardens of France and its vice-president Ms. Marie-Sol de la Tuor d''''''''Auvergne for the participation in the festival "Imperial Gardens of Russia" the landscape project of the Chateau Amboise (France) is presented.
Concept of Project "Ephemeral Garden in St. Petersburg" or "Loire Landscape at Neva Banks"
The Author of the conception of the project is Mr. Jean-Louis Sureau, director of the Chateau Royal d`Amboise.
A person strolling along the street comes across a garden - a confined space, where he or she would want to find his or her place. He or she wants this place to be comfortable for him or her, so that having hidden there, he or she could enjoy life and appreciate moments of serenity.
In an English garden celebrated this year, as opposed to a French one, there is no need to impress the visitor with total control over the nature - quite the reverse, what is important is the joint desire of the concept author and the gardener to imitate it, bringing to perfection.
In this sense a garden must be an open window full of light. It invites you to get closer, to capture the surrounding natural environment with your look, from the near to the far perspective. It is a very small space, rather like a "pocket" garden, but it is a part of a more spacious ensemble, which, in its turn, is a part of a larger landscape.
A memory of such garden within the St. Petersburg Festival has the colours of various but yet barely sensible nuances of greens so inherent in Russian spring.
If a land plot, where the composition is placed, is inclined – this is a piece of luck for the creator, and this curve must be emphasised. Two bouquets of smooth lines hide a rectangle with uneven contour reminding us of the hill above the Loire River, where the Chateau Royal d''''''''Amboise is located.
Intervention of the artist underlined graphics of the entire composition, thanks to a row of "green strokes" laid one after another, with a rhythm set by counter lines crossing them. The picture has been set, and our visitor is free to fill it with mythical or more ordinary figures, to imagine his or her favourite characters taking a walk here at any time of the year, which will make the entire picture more authentic - and it will seem for a while that this instantaneous image refers to a longer life period.
A gardener is a producer. He or she acts as if in a theatre – invisible for the spectators, to give free play to fancy. And our spectator must appreciate the joy of this creative contemplation! He or she brings to mind images of his or her nearest and dearest, imagines them next to the Greatest, and being carried away by his or her dream, may notice among the people strolling in our garden, for instance, Alexander Pushkin having a small talk with Leonardo da Vinci*. He or she smiles at the thought that the topic of their conversation was Amboise, if not St. Petersburg, where the memory of these great people is so strong that it seems it will challenge the time itself.
Our ephemeral garden is as an open balcony with a History view...