Overview

• The red 2001 version of Garden Spade from a private collection was installed Friday morning on the Bolotnaya Embankment.
• The sculpture is being shown in Russia for the first time, according to GES-2.
• Urs Fischer’s Big Clay No. 4 was dismantled in July and has been reinstalled in a park near Novatek’s office on Leninsky Prospekt.
• Rosizo director Ivan Lykoshin criticized the new installation as “uncontrolled chaos” and urged oversight by an expert body for public-space projects.
• GES-2 described the change as a curated dialogue in the urban environment by artists known for monumental renditions of everyday objects.