The Russian architect and designer, one of the founders of the Nikola-Lenivets art park Vasily Shchetinin suffered a stroke and fell into a coma in the American city of Salt Lake City. This is reported on the site to raise funds Go Fund Me. It is noted that Shchetinin was heading to the Burning Man art festival to present there the kinetic sculpture "Makhalych" - a 40-meter hovering man with wings. "Vasya flew to the US and lost consciousness at the airport. He was urgently hospitalized in the city hospital of Salt Lake City, Utah. Doctors diagnosed a "stroke". The condition is extremely difficult, Vasya is in a coma, "the message says.. Friends of Shchetinin launched a campaign to raise funds to pay for "very expensive treatment". According to them, the artist did not have travel insurance. Vasily Shchetinin - author of the idea and concept of a creative village for artists in the village of Nikola-Lenivets in the Kaluga region. In 2006, on the basis of the art park, the Festival of Landscape Objects "Arkhstoyanie" was organized for the first time. The event is held annually. Burning Man - an eight-day festival that starts every year on the last Monday in August in the desert of Black Rock, Nevada. On its territory are set various works of modern art, and at the close of sculpture, as a rule, are burned by their creators. On September 4, it was reported that one of the visitors of the event jumped into the burning wooden sculpture of a man. Rescuers took out a man and took him to a hospital by helicopter, where he died.

Original article: A Russian artist who went to the Burning Man Festival fell into a coma in the USA.