The marriage of two idiosyncratic voices unites Evgeny Gorbunov aka Inturist and artist and filmmaker Vanya-Ivan Kazukov in a striking collision of three disciplines: image, spoken word, and music. Their first encounter came when Gorbunov composed and mixed the sound for Kazukov’s film ‘Le Galimatias’, a work built from a myriad of photographs and a meditation on language as a barrier in a new country. ‘L’Art du Paysage’ is a live recording from an event at Floreal Belleville, where the duo pushed their collaboration to its logical extreme in a one-off improvisational performance.
The project unfolded through a raw yet precise process: photographs printed on photo paper were handed to Gorbunov, who responded with improvised music and Russian lyrics, while Kazukov translated the words into his patchy French. The result is a charged interplay of image, voice, and sound, where meaning fractures and recombines, giving improvisation the structure and impact of a fully realised pop composition. Both artists were born in Russia and recently emigrated to Europe. Kazukov’s landscapes capture everyday reality warped by absurd coincidence, while his deliberately flawed French ‘translations’ of Evgeny’s improvised songs teeter between nonsense phrases, recycled lines from past works, and prewritten phrases, turning language, misunderstanding, and even fear into a performative instrument. ‘L’Art du Paysage’ sketches a kind of image of their everyday life in a new linguistic territory: a disabled collision of freeform music and concrete poetry where stitched-together meanings spark new ones and free improvisation hardens into a pop-ready work.
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