Too Far, Too Close

Half conceptual statement, half performance art, Russian artist Igor Ponosov's work for Nuart casts itself aside from the more traditional model of mural festivals. Ponosov's art becomes a thing of impermanence, ethereal to its very core, sailing back and forth across the harbour in Stavanger, leaving the viewer to stumble upon it by chance. An eye test for the landlubbers, "Too Far, Too Close" is a hand-painted, functioning sailboat sail that symbolises the distance and disconnect between the public and the majority of the artwork mural programs often produce.