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He says that the work has been made by an artist in Dnipro from a real gas pipe and expresses the idea of blowing up the Nord Stream gas pipeline. According to Serhii Didkovskyi, Oleh Ataiants hit the target in his artistic plan, because the USSR, and later Russia, constantly used energy resources as a weapon.
Didkovskyi says that the USSR/Russia started three wars – in Afghanistan (1979), Georgia (2008), Ukraine (in 2014 and 2022) – at the peak of the increase in energy prices. One of the reasons for the collapse of the Soviet system was the decrease in world prices for oil and gas. That is, their economy and policy are fully dependent on energy resources. Their htonic hatred depends on the availability of money, and money is energy resources. Here Ataiants in his artistic expression hit the target.
He notes that after the sculpture of Ataiants is shown in Kyiv, it will be taken to the exhibition in the USA and sold there at auction, and the sculptor plans to transfer the proceeds to the needs of Ukraine.
According to the co-organizer of the exhibition Daria Shikhenko, it was very important for the author to incorporate the Ukrainian context in his work. Her comment was published by the YouTube channel Kyiv Novyny.
