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Documentation
* Article (May 2019) by Olga Stenko in newspaper Gazeta
Decorated house Dykanska street Yakovtsi district, city of Poltava, region Poltava, Ukraine can be seen from the street
an inventory and documentary of art environments in Europe created by non-professionals
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Documentation
* Article (May 2019) by Olga Stenko in newspaper Gazeta
Decorated house Dykanska street Yakovtsi district, city of Poltava, region Poltava, Ukraine can be seen from the street
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photo (2021) by Juho Haaviko on Google Streetview |
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photo (2021) by Marja Leena-Kounia on Google Streetview |
photo (2022) by Merja Kukkonen as on Google Streetview |
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this image (August 2022) and the next two from Facebook |
this image published in October 2018 |
this image published in April 2017 |
Quarter Likoniementie, city of Padasjoki, region Päijät-Häme, dept Southern Finland, Finland
can be seen from the road
this image and the next four (2024) courtesy of the editors of the website tipeek photos |
In this rural and wooded area François Alix in 2018 started to create his art environment Magic Hortus.
Life and works
François Alix was born in 1964 in Chinon, a commune about 40 kilometers north of Verrue.
There is virtually no information available on the internet about his early years and education.
His life story begins with the report that he had gone to live in Switzerland, where he sold antiquarian books. He returned to France in 2018, when he was 54. Earlier, in 2010, he had bought the four-hectare site in Foreil.
The smaller metal creations also include a group of 365 sculptures of women who dance, spread out across the terrain.
There are also small metal creations in specific shapes that decorate fences situated in various places in the art environment.
And then, they are also used to decorate stand alone metal elements, such as the large round wheel, shown below and a metal bridge that covers kind of a a water feature surrounded by upright yellow colored side walls
Near this bridge rises a tall rusty metal tower, its top marked by a large amount of metal strings hanging down, all together a paraphrase on a tree. Such trees also adorn the site elsewhere.
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all photos (2024) courtesy of Hannes Bürgelin |
Herberts Traumpfad
Unterdorfstraße 24
77960 Seelbach, district Ortenau, federal state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany
sculptures can be seen from the road
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all images are screenprints from the video in the documentation |
Luigi Mazzilli
Villa Fantasy
address is not made available
Corato, dept Bari, region Apulia, Italy
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pictures (2024) are screen-prints from Google Streetview |
Once retired, he returned to Portugal, settled in Bragança and in 2005, at the age of 65, he was inspired to do something creative.
Influenced by his time in France, that "something" became a replica of the Eiffel Tower, The replica was installed in the outdoor area of his house, near the bridge over the Fervença river.
That was the beginning of the creation of an art environment, which in February 2014, when he was interviewed by the regional newspaper Nordeste, had already reached a considerable size.
Santana is a quiet, meticulous worker, who has a photographic memory, which comes in handy when making replicas of large buildings, such as the Eiffel Tower, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Praça da Sé in São Paulo, the Santo Condestável in Lisbon, the Taj Mahal in India, the Sanctuary of Fátima and the Outeiro Sanctuary in Bragança,
But the site also includes small-scale creations of, for example, biblical characters such as Joseph and Mary, or a scene of three friends around a table, where the beard of one of them is provided with real hair from Santana's own hairdo.
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this image and the next two (2023) as on journal 20minut |
The name of the occupant of the house, most likely the one who added the decorations, is unknown.
As far as could be determined, there are two Ukrainian sources on the Internet that pay attention to this art environment,
Julia Inozemtseva, the journalist who wrote about the house, did not find the resident at home and neighbors were also unavailable. She had to limit herself to describing what could be seen on the outside of the house, with the picture of keyhole in the white circle as a particularly striking item.
The other source that does not name the creator is the website of Volt Agapeyev, an artist born in Ternopil, currently working in Kiev. He refers to the mural as an Inner Gingerbread House, where the mural offers extra protection from what is happening inside in the private sphere