Day 3: Saturday 6th of July

After the morning visit to some soviet social housing and the constructivist neighborhood of Narvskaya, built by Gegello and Simonov in 1925, we have walked around the enormous square of Kirov, which is surrounded by official buildings of constructivist style. The scale of the public spaces in this city is impressive. The magnificence of the palaces contrasts with the human emptiness of those over-scaled piazzas.

But out of any imperial conception lays the Red Triangle Factory, whose post-apocalyptical spaces remain as the silent witnesses of a glorious industrial past. Cathedrals built for the sake of proletarians, and nowadays astonishing urban degraded spaces painted by time and covered by its wonderful patina. Authenticity in pure state. Time and Memory.

Walking through the labyrinth of the industrial complex, we have arrived to the studio of the artist Alexander Dashevskiy, whose architectonical and fragmented paintings really absorbed the near context of its surrounding. Infinite perspectives, patchwork of grey-colored little windows, broken glass and red old brick.
That is the hidden image of Saint Petersburg, its underground soul, its forgotten scenography.