daniil grakovich, fifth-year student of the belarusian state academy of arts, department of sculptureof numerous. american exhibitions, submitted a work to the competition in nomination sculpture, what the author wanted to tell the viewer with his work, we’ll find out right now. daniel, good afternoon, good. your work meridian is made in the style of conceptualism. the essence of this style is that the idea is more important than form and artistic expression. tell me, what is the idea of your work? the idea is to show what we are. part of the universe, part of the cosmos, at the same time a grain of the world, closed in parallels and meridians, you have a work, a portrait of a contemporary, tell us how you see your contemporary, well, this is work, this is what a collective image, so i wanted to show a contemporary, it’s like a person who is surrounded by calm , he describes something with words, and talks about something, but as a sculptor, he must show volume and shape, and how to do it, if not with your hands? young and purposeful authors, they are open to everything new with gre