At the Created in Moscow booth in 2022, JART Gallery presents the artist Nastya Miro with the Site 112 project dedicated to the Energiya reusable space transport system — Buran. "Buran" is a space shuttle capable of delivering to orbit and returning to Earth loads weighing up to 30 tons. The Buran spaceplane made its only flight on November 15, 1988 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in automatic mode and without a crew on board, flying around the Earth twice.
In 2002, the Buran spaceplane died under the rubble of the collapsed roof of the MIK hangar at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Nastya’s paintings show parts of the Burya spacecraft, which is the second flight copy of the Soviet space shuttle. The Burya was supposed to fly into orbit in 1991, but this never happened —the USSR ceased to exist, the program was closed, and the spaceship remained on the Earth, ready for 90% in the abandoned MZK hangar at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

The steppe surrounding Baikonur is sad and inhospitable. Dangerous. As in the novel by the Strugatsky brothers, "Roadside Picnic" is filled with artifacts. And as in the that same novel, he reveals his secrets only to the most persistent stalkers. Nastya turned out to be steadfast and had the opportunity to collect a lot of material for the project dedicated to Buran. The stand presents works, which depict other "artifacts" of the cosmodrome, filling the steppe on the path of the artist to the MZK hangar. The artifacts that Nastya stumbled upon (sometimes literally) in the steppe is one of the side projects of the artist. Most of the work of the project was done in the tempera technique on wood.

"Why wood and not traditional canvas? Because it was interesting to try another material in work and because its texture is damn similar to the views of the steppe. Just as marquetry masters choose the type of wood for the background of their mosaics, I found ovankol (African walnut) to so that it would become the basis for my work. So there was a scorpion that stung me on the leg, followed by his brothers and sisters who met on the path and, of course, the sad remains of the era of achievements. Shards of hope…" — Nastya Miro

We are waiting for you at COSMOCOW 2022 from 15 to 17 September!
The presented works can be purchased in the catalog below:

Nastya Miro (b. 1989) — was born and works in Moscow. Graduate of the Sergey Andriyaka School of Watercolors, VGIK named after S. G. Gerasimov. Miro's chosen direction is realism, in which she gives first place to technology. The artist revives the importance of tempera colorful materials, while creating modern paintings. Miro has 12 solo exhibitions. Participant of more than 20 group exhibitions in Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, Berlin, Frankfurt, Vienna, Paris, Kyiv, Moscow and other cities of Russia.