Aztec autumn

Sun, stones and a little bit of October sadness

Passing the gallery

Leading headings: Dilara Muradova

A photo: Boris Bendikov

Magazine: N10 (66) 2002

Sun, stones and a little bit of October sadness - совсем чуть-чуть. Мы вновь мечтаем о странах, которых нет на карте, экзотических ландшафтах и экспрессии чувств. Осень ацтеков вступает в свои права. В моде - обжигающие цвета, книги из "Личной библиотеки Борхеса" и образы Теночтитлана This trend has nothing to do with fashion in India or the Middle East, Latin America or Africa. Its signs - massive gold jewelry, bright feathers, contrasting colors and sunburned stones - are “readable” only in a certain environment and well-thought out combinations, and individually they can serve as ciphers of any other culture: Asian, African and even European. The Aztecs are also a journey, only this time to a country that has long become a half-memory half-legend. Perhaps that is why the accuracy of the presentation does not matter here. The main thing is the mood, something close to the atmosphere of the books of Dino Buzzati and Pedro Paramo - a feeling of timelessness and unaccountable sadness, an immense plain or road that has no end. The Aztec "speech" is metaphorical. Ancient temples of Tenochtitlan are seen in the rough surface of stones, and the contrast of romanticism - cruelty is shifted to the language of flowers. The only feature that is kept intact is the color palette that combined cochineal red and blood asin, blue color and shades of immature apples are the favorite colors of the Aztecs, which, as we know, were not equal in the world ...

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