Monument to Victor Zoi
The monument to Viktor Zoi is a sculpture created by Alexei Blagowestnow of the Soviet rock musician, poet and actor Viktor Robertovich Zoi . In July 2009, it was installed in Saint Petersburg on Nevsky Prospect next to the Aurora movie theater. In October 2015, she was transferred to the city of Okulovka , Novgorod Oblast.
construction
Alexei Blagovestnow created the monument in 2002 as a thesis at the Moscow Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture . The artist used a scene from the film “Nadel” as a template, in which Zoi is sitting in a bar with rolled up sleeves and wearing glasses. The work on the sculpture took half a year.
description
The sculpture depicts the barefooted Viktor Robertowitsch Zoi with rolled up sleeves and sunglasses. He is sitting on a motorcycle of the Tys Jawa with a broken headlight. The height of the monument is 1.89 m, the length 2.74 m and the width 1.40 m. The weight is about half a ton.
Zoi was portrayed by the artist with a motorcycle, although he preferred to drive a car. The sculptor cited the reason that the motorcycle was “a mighty force” that symbolically lifts the driver out of the crowd. Without a motorcycle, his figure would be too big and would dominate the viewer. According to Blagowestnow, Zoy's bare feet are due to the fact that bare feet are seen as an expression of the artist's multiple vulnerabilities. You can step on his foot, so that it hurts not only physically, but also mentally in a figurative sense.
history
On July 21, 2009, the monument was unveiled in Saint Petersburg on Nevsky Prospect next to the Aurora movie theater and then moved to the building of the movie theater, where it was only installed on August 15 for the presentation of the film The Last Hero by Alexei Uchitel. Subsequently, there was no space for the monument in Moscow. Initially, it was planned to erect it on the Old Arbat next to the Viktor Zoi wall. Since the residents did not want to tolerate a large crowd in front of the house, the Commission for Monumental Art decided against this location.
In Saint Petersburg, the erection of the monument was not coordinated with the city government, so on July 22nd the employees of the movie theater asked the sculptor Alexei Blagovestnow to remove it.
The memorial is to be set up in other cities in Russia for the time being and ultimately get a place in the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . On October 17, 2015, the sculpture was placed in a square next to the train station in the city of Okulovka, Novgorod Oblast. Victor Zoi is said to have driven through here and stayed in the city hall of residence.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Сегодня в городе Окуловка состоялось торжественное мероприятие, посвящённое открытию памятника | Сайт города Окуловка. Retrieved February 28, 2019 (Russian).