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Arsenal is one of the biggest constructions of the Nizhni Novgorod Kremlin: it is 200 meters in length, its area is 5,000 sq. meters. The depot built in 1843 was a background element of the cathedral square "attached" to the Kremlin wall and included arched supports of the XVI century in its suits. Arsenal was handed down from the Military Department to the Nizhni Novgorod branch of National Centre for Contemporary Arts in 2003, March. The reconstructed Arsenal will become an area for contemporary arts. It means that it will combine various functions, which are necessary for art making and its polymorphous representation. Therefore several functional zones are to be created: industrial, combining studios, workshops, stores and other quarters; living, where artists in residence will dwell and work; administrative, including a few offices; exhibition zone, a gallery; and public and in formative zone combining a media library, a bar, an auditorium and so on. Such classification is provisional because the Arsenal will be an integral object, transparent either for artists or for viewers. The integrity and the transparence of all its functions will give it a possibility to become a veritable "forum" and "laboratory" of contemporary art. |
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