Tag: Tima Radya
Ekaterinburg-based artist Tima Radya’s installations have always stood out — from his fiery wall pieces referencing literature, to his “YOU WERE FUCKED” billboard installed after the “re-election” of Putin, to his sculpture pyramid of riot shields installed with a crew dressed as police agents. It’s no wonder that a few art objects that he is currently offering on his website for donations are […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Ekaterinburg-based urban intervention and street artist Tima Radya talks about Figure #2: Game — a giant, dynamic sculpture welded from steel, lifted by cranes and exploding with two billion ruble bills. (Translated from Russian.) I wanted to show the project […]
“I’m a little tired,” Tima Radya tells me, smiling. The soft-spoken street artist was up until 3am the night before CutLog New York’s inaugural press opening last night. He was stacking, climbing, stacking his recreation of Stability Figure 1 — a giant pyramid of cards. The cards are riot shields. This is the anonymous Yekaterinburg street artist’s […]
