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Time-out in the Meantime project concept
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Project Head: artist K.A. Petrova
Project authors: artist A.Yu. Manina, designer M.S. Dmitireva
Creative team: N.N. Gromov, N.I. Fedorova, G.V. Sokolova, teachers of the Construction Industry and Municipal Services College: V.V. Anpilogova, I.A. Toshchakova, V.S. Shapiro, students M. Kazakevitch, E. Chubarova
Within the framework of the Bilateral UK-Russia Year of Culture, we dedicated our project to the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the English Football Association (1863). Together with Scotland the England national football team is the oldest football team in the world and is an active competitor of the World Cups and European championships.
As the England national football team won a gold medal of the World Cup only once – in 1966, and further on its achievements were less successful, the name of the proposed project Time-out in the Meantime makes well-wishing hints at possible future victories.
The project name has double semantic meaning: the traditional English break during a tough working day is associated with a time-out during a football match. This double meaning dictated the spatial solution for the composition consisting of a round table and two chairs resembling chairs by famous designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the pioneer of the Art Nouveau style in Scotland. The furniture is set on a round ground with its black and white graphic pattern echoing the stitchwork of a leather football ball.
Bushes tipped as balls are located on the lawn of the ground emphasizing the composition theme. Speckles of red roses in these styled football “balls” stem from the fact that except for three lions the emblem of the England national football team features the images of these flowers, which are of historic importance for the country. One of the balls is decorated with the emblem of the England national football team, thus reminding once again that the composition is devoted to its jubilee. A stone figure of a lion, one the UK symbols, is installed in conventional football goalposts as a reminder that the players of the team fight for win as lions.
The background of the whole composition is provided by the topiary working of trees and bushes typical for the modern garden and park design of England.
The composition background includes a segment of a green fence with two intercrossing crosses made in a topiary way and echoing the linear composition of the UK national flag.