Gorodka

Gorodka unusual art village

Gorodka is part of the itinerary of the singular art (published by the Palais du factor Cheval)

"If there was a tourism Lépine competition, it should be awarded to Peter Shasmoukine, artist multicarte, founder of a village imagined of all rooms near Sarlat. Needless to look for Gorodka on a map, it does not exist, geographically speaking. However, the area of 2 hectares on which it is installed is nothing of an optical illusion: eight art galleries, luminous pathways, more than 500 works to contemplate, workshops, artists in residence and atypical accommodation have taken place. Armed with his two arms, Pierre Shasmoukine did everything himself. The case will have taken him forty years. At this point, we can say that nothing is alien to him.

It is a great touch-to-everything, inenarrable and probably unmanageable, but that WINS to be known. In turn, painter, poet, sculptor, animator "transsocial", sometimes farmer, sometimes "anarchitect", and why not both at the same time, he created in 1978 the first NGO on what was not yet called sustainable development. In 84, opening to the public of the first gallery to the public in rural space, prelude to a whole series of events, plastic Follies, Luminescent Giant sculptures. In the vicinity we have not finished questioning "....  Reporter Denise Cabelli.