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LIVES OF PERFECT CREATURES
Project by The Museum of Jurassic Technology (USA)
One of the rooms in the Museum of Jurassic Technology is dedicated to famed dogs who participated in the Soviet program of space exploration. Oil portraits of five space canines were created by a contemporary American artist M.A. Peers who also mad the dioramas for the museum. The name for the project “Lives of Perfect Creatures” was inspired by the quotation from Kostantin Tsiolkovsky, “All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures.” Laika was the first earth-born creature to make an orbit flight on November 3, 1957 (just 30 days after the first sputnik had been launched into the orbit). The flight success and Laika’s tragic life commanded the attention of the entire world. Portraits exhibition presented by the Museum of Jurassic Technology in the Space Museum accompanied by the damped beats of Laika’s heart which collides with the radio signals from the first Sputnik. However, if the sound of Sputnik was heard by the entire world, Laika’s heartbeat was recorded by special devices before she met her tragic death in flight. Monuments were erected to commemorate Laika and Zvezdochka, while Belka and Strelka became popular cartoon characters. Five space dogs with their life stories and space missions are brought together in the Space Museum in a single “cabin” dashing through starry sky towards eternal fame with a model of the first Soviet Sputnik in the background.
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2012 • [февраль]
Санкт-Петербург,
Петропавловская крепость,
Невская куртина,
левая сторона
(ППК)
[карта]
Телефоны:
(812) 233-0040,
(812) 233-0553,
Факс:
(812) 233-0040
e-mail:
office@proarte.ru
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