On the blue

"Modabar" in Kiev Andrey Zadorozhny

Passing the gallery

A photo: Evgeny Luchin

Text: Yuri Zhuzhin

Idea: Andrey Zadorozhny

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According to the assurances of Kiev, "Modabar" is indeed the most fashionable place in the city. Once a ship moored at st. Novokreshchatitskaya, pier N6, where Modabar is now located, was a floating military laboratory. It tested equipment for diesel submarines. The huge womb of the former laboratory contained several tiers: a stage podium, a dance floor and the pride of the establishment - the longest bar in Europe. In "Modabar" professional sound, stage light, a lot of neon and "soaring" glass podium, on which fashion shows and musicians perform. In the corners there are huge cylindrical cells-glasses for dancers, the walls are hung with banners with photos of Ukrainian models. Despite the trendy surroundings and the "acid" neon light, the music here is listened to by another. In the room where the mirror ball is spinning under the ceiling, and the bartenders organize professional nightly shows, it is fashionable to dance to the hits of the past century. It is unlikely that visitors who came to join a non-stop party or watch it from above, from the second tier, are seriously inclined to indulge in nostalgia. Rather, they like funny and unexpected contrast of seemingly incompatible styles. We can only congratulate the authors of the concept of the bar-laboratory with a successful conversion and take a word for the witnesses and participants of the Kiev fashion parties on the water. It must be really boring.

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