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| | Arts Calendar / June 10 / Exhibitions |
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| Hein Gorny: New Objectivity and Industry |
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 Multimedia Art Museum presents Hein Gorny: New Objectivity and Industry. Products and Image Design 1920s-1930s in Germany. Hein Gorny was a much sought-after industrial and commercial photographer in Germany. Gorny intentionally employs dynamic structures but maintains the legibility of the image as a primary focus. Ultimately, standardized forms of representation were intended to underline their objectivity and to enable the viewer to quickly grasp the depicted products in terms of purpose and quality. In his timeless image design Gorny brought together the objectivity and drive for progress, with which these firms confronted the demands of the era. He integrated the formal vocabulary and experimental spirit of New Photography into everyday practice and thus became a master of this applied style.
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| From Elizabeth to Victoria. English portrait |
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 From Elizabeth to Victoria. English portrait from the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. We do not always know what the important personalities of English history and culture looked like, even it their names are familiar to us from the school curriculum. The exhibition will fill this gap. It will include portraits of famous people of English history and culture: Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria, Oliver Cromwell, Horatio Nelson, Isaac Newton, James Cook, William Shakespeare, Robert Burns, George G. Byron, Walter Scott, Jerome K. Jerome. This exhibition will be the first experience in collaboration of the Tretyakov Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Tretyakov Gallery at Lavrushinsky Lane |
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 This will be the most comprehensive monographic exhibition of Geliy Mikhailovich Korzhev (1925–2012), the last famous Russian realist painter of the 20th century. Getting to know the artist’s works is like a complicated and sometimes painful conversation, which is difficult but necessary for the modern audience. The works by Korzhev are filled with drama and human empathy. The subjects and characters in his paintings reach a maximum of meaningful and emotional concentration. The exhibition provides an opportunity to see the art of the painter ranking among the titans of the second half of the last century’s Russian painting. The exhibition will feature works from the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, ROSIZO, the Institute of Russian realistic art, Russian and foreign private collections. More info
Tretyakov Gallery at Krymsky Val |
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| House of Impressions. Classic and Contemporary Media Art |
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 The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts presents the first project of its newly established Department of Film and Media Arts. The exhibition «House of Impressions. Classic and Contemporary Media Art» in the Museum Quarter of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts represents a collection of 19 artworks of outstanding video and media artists of the 20th and 21st century. The project is dedicated to the collision of the past and the present, the innovative processes, which occurred in the 20th century and were related to the “liberation” of artistic tools and media. The Museum invites visitors not only to the space of the old Manor, but also into the space of installations created by taking into account the genio loci. Today’s art strives to go beyond not only the picture frame, but beyond the space of the screen. Amongst all the features of the works in “House of Impressions – Classic and Contemporary Media Art,” this is one of the most important ones. Moreover, in the 21st century a museum does not need to be absolutely quiet – our sight, hearing and movement through the museum display are the means of our perception; from the retina of the eye to a tactile sensation – such is the process of immersion in the image.
Pushkin State Musem of Fine Arts. Prince Golitsyn Family Estate |
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| Leon Bakst. In Honor of the 150th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birth |
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 Bakst was a Russian theatrical designer, painter, portraitist, book illustrator, interior designer, and fashion designer during the 1910s. He published numerous articles on contemporary design and dance, he was also interested in photography and cinema, and wrote a novel based on his biography. Being fond of the art of Ancient Greece and Orient, Bakst merged classical motives with the eccentricity of Art Nouveau in his art. This first retrospective exhibition of the artist to be shown in Russia will include more than 200 paintings, drawings, theatrical costumes and archive photos of Leon Bakst from Russian and Western state and private collections, gathered together by an international group of curators.
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| Mauro Restiffe. Post-Soviet Russia 1995/2015 |
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 Brazilian artist Mauro Restiffe will present two series of black-and-white photographs taken in Russia first in the 1990s (during his extended stay in the country) and then 20 years later in 2015. The arresting visual essay portrays the cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg, revealing the idiosyncratic and timeless qualities of two very different periods in post-Soviet Russia. Continuing his long-term investigations into the interplay between architectural spaces and urban environments through analog photography, Restiffe’s attention focuses on various interiors, buildings, and city scenes, capturing the two cities still in the process of evolution. Although they are constantly changing, in a way the two cities can also be seen as time capsules. Mauro Restiffe was born in 1970 in São José do Rio Pardo, Brazil. He lives and works in São Paulo. Restiffe has received grants from the Ministry of Culture, Brasília, and has been awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award, New York (2001) and the Conrado Wessel Award for photography, São Paulo (2013).
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art |
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| Moscow Metro. Subterranean Monument |
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 One of the most grandiose projects of the Land of the Soviets, the Moscow Metro opened 80 years ago, in 1935, and has become a unique architectural and engineering structure, a functional and popular mode of transport, and an example of decorative and applied art of world significance. This exhibition project by the Museum of Architecture presents a history of the Moscow Metro’s creation in structural plans, historical photographs and archive materials. We focus on the first four stages of Metro construction, launched between 1935 and 1954. The display begins with works by renowned architects Ivan Fomin, Alexei Dushkin, Dmitry Chechulin, Alexei Schusev and Vladimir Gelfreikh. Stations from various periods are shown here, all recognised as superior examples by contemporaries: Krasniye Vorota,Kropotkinskaya, Komsomolskaya, Taganskaya, Elektrozavodskaya, etc. Many Metro stations and pavilions were erected as the result of architectural competitions, although winning projects were often altered in the modification process. Particularly valuable in historical terms are original versions of Moscow Metro station plans and decoration designs that noticeably differ from their present-day appearance. Unique station projects entered in competitions but never implemented are exhibited here for the first time.
Schusev State Museum of Architecture |
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 Perhaps the most famous masterpiece of one of the founders of impressionism, written in 1863, and only once they left the walls of the musée d'Orsay in Paris, will appear at the exhibition surrounded by three works from the collection of the Pushkin Museum. Painting "Queen (king's Wife)" Paul Gauguin (1895), paintings, "the lady at the toilet" Giulio Pippi, called Romano (beginning 1520-?), and sculpture of the Aphrodite of Cnidus by Praxiteles (Roman copy from the original of CA. 350 BC). Starting point for the emergence of "Olympia" was the desire of Edouard Manet to rethink and shaped plastic "formula" "Venus of Urbino" by Titian in the spirit of its era, that is, to write a modern Venus. "It is our duty, - claimed Manet, - to be removed from our era all it has to offer, not forgetting that it was opened and found to us."
Pushkin Fine Arts Museum |
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| Preserving the Fruits of Enormous Labor |
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 Russian and Western European Art from the Ilya Silberstein Collection. The exhibition is dedicated to the 110th anniversary of Ilya Silberstein’s birth (1905–1988). Ilya Silberstein was a prominent researcher, art collector and public figure who initiated the creation of the Museum of Private Collections (today known as Private Collections Department) of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition will show paintings, prints and drawings created by masters of leading European schools: Luca Cambiaso, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Bosschaert, Leonaert Bramer, Jan van Bijlert, Bartholomaus Spranger, Anthelme François Lagrenée; works by Russian painters of the 18th – 20th century: Alexander Ivanov, Karl Bryullov, Vladimir Borovikovsky, Alexey Bogolyubov, Ilya Repin, Ivan Shishkin, Valentin Serov, Mikhail Vrubel. The exhibition will also feature an unusually extensive selection of artworks created by Western European artists for Russian collectors and art lovers – Pietro Gonzago, Giacomo Quarenghi, Jean-François Thomas de Tomon, academic drawings, Decembrists’ portraits by Nikolay Bestuzhev, works by the “Mir Iskusstva” group.
Pushkin State Musem of Fine Arts. Private Collections |
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| Rashid Johnson. Within Our Gates |
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 For the third commission in Garage Atrium, New York-based artist Rashid Johnson will produce an installation using a towering grid structure to house a unique, living ecosystem in the Museum that visitors can enter and explore. Constructed as a maze-like environment for all the senses, Within Our Gates integrates tropical plants such as palms, dracaenas, ficus, and ferns, with sculptural elements, moving image, sound, and everyday objects to immerse the viewer in the artist’s poetic manifestation of a world where fictions and facts, histories and speculations converge. His first project in Russia, this is also the largest work the artist has ever made. Describing his new work as “a brain,” the artist has drawn on both “high” and popular culture for his source material. Rashid Johnson (b. 1977) is based in New York. He was born in Chicago to an African History professor and a CB radio enthusiast who owned a small electronics and radio communication company: “I grew up between my father’s laboratory and my mother’s library,” Johnson has remarked. These contrasting views on the world have been an influence ever since.
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art |
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| Sergei Gerasimov. Watercolor, charcoal, sanguine |
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 Sergei Gerasimov's watercolor, charcoal and sanguine works is a part of the project “The Tretyakov Gallery opens its store”. Sergei Vasilievich Gerasimov (1885-1964) is one of the most recognizable artists of the socialist realism. He was known throughout the Russian art world to be a liberal thinker whose paintings showed the influences of Impressionism and other modern movements. His paintings became a touchstone for the Soviet art in the first half of the 20th century. However, his graphic works are hardly known to the general audience. The exhibition includes 80 works, most of which have not been exhibited since 1985.
Tretyakov Gallery at Krymsky Val |
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| Steve Fitch: Western Landmarks |
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 Multimedia Art Museum collaboretion with Robert Koch Gallery. Fitch, well-known for his anthropological studies of the American West, the exhibition features selections from his acclaimed 1970s series Diesels & Dinosaurs, augmented by color photographs from Western Landmarks, photographed in the 80s and 90s. After graduating with a degree in anthropology from UC Berkeley, Fitch began taking road trips to photograph what he refers to as “the vernacular of the journey,” capturing the spirit of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and celebrating the cultural landscape of the two-lane highway. Acting as a visual anthropologist who uses photography to collect material, Fitch photographed pre-franchise neon motel signs, big rig trucks, truck-stop waitresses, and quirky roadside attractions like snake pits and dinosaur parks, re-creating his childhood experience of road trips in the family Buick. Though he wasn’t aware of it at the time, Fitch was drawn to particular aspects of Americana on the verge of extinction, like mom-and-pop motels and drive-in theaters, anachronisms in today’s culture of air travel and multilane interstates.
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| The Modern Art: 1960–2000. Restart |
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 The Modern Art: 1960–2000. Restart is a part of the project “The Tretyakov Gallery opens its store”. One of the most important functions of a museum is to find and include into its collection the best and most important key works of the modern art. The new version of the permanent exhibition of the modern art demonstrates the diversity of artistic trends in the art of the second half of the XX century. The exhibition has the purpose to overcome the viewers’ misunderstandings and mistrust towards contemporary art, to acquaint them with the most interesting works, to create an adequate idea of the vast cultural period, forming the art space around us.
Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val |
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 To celebrate the first anniversary of Garage’s move into its permanent home, Urs Fischer has developed Small Axe, an exhibition that responds to the building and its surroundings with spirited lightness and humor. Creating a series of installations that play with scale and sensory perception, the Swiss-born artist invites audiences to experience the Museum from a new perspective. Occupying the Central Gallery, the installation includes more than thirty bronze hand-painted sculptures produced especially for the show. Small in scale, each captures a transient moment—from a wilted tulip in a vase to a rat playing a grand piano—populating the gallery with flights of fantasy in physical forms that provide an antidote to the austerity and grandeur of the Soviet Modernist architecture. Further asserting the desire to introduce fluidity and immediacy into the Museum, larger works include a life-size candle sculpture that captures an affectionate moment between a seated couple, which will be lit each day and gradually melt over the course of the exhibition, and a 9-meter-long gestural line that visitors can walk under and around, which is a greatly magnified sculptural version of a hand-drawn doodle. Small Axe also extends to Garage Square, where Fischer will stage the largest collaborative outdoor project he has ever made, which is called YES. The piece involves inviting people from all walks of life to create a landscape of clay sculptures that will metamorphose over the course of the show. The open process through which the work comes together—contrasted with the contained process of creation in the studio—echoes the importance of communal activity and unregulated synergetic forces within society.
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art |
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| Vasiliy Kandinskiy. Counterpoint: Composition VI - Composition VII |
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 For the 150th anniversary of the artist. In 2016, the entire world of art celebrates the anniversary of Vasiliy Kandinsky (1866-1944), one of the leaders of abstract art. The exhibition set up by the Tretyakov Gallery and the State Hermitage will be a highlight of the year. Last time, these works were shown together in 1989. The dialogue of the two most famous 1913’s works by Kandinskiy will kindle the interest to the artist’s work in the new generation of art lovers. The communication with Kandinsky’s masterpieces will enable the viewers to perceive the emotional and sensual world of his works and enjoy the “effect of presence” to the utmost. As an important addition, the exhibition will feature a multimedia project “The Path to Abstraction”, which will show the process of formation of non-figurative painting on the example of a painting by Kandinskiy.
Tretyakov Gallery at Krymsky Val |
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| Viktor Pivovarov. The Snail’s Trail |
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 Garage Museum of Contemporary Art presents The Snail’s Trail by Viktor Pivovarov, in celebration of the artist’s forthcoming 80th birthday. Revealing the mesmerizing interior worlds which Pivoravov creates in his work as a painter, book designer, illustrator, theoretician, creator of conceptual albums, memoirist, and writer, the exhibition includes works from the mid-1970s through to recent paintings. The exhibition is the first in which Pivovarov has collaborated with an architect to create an immersive environment, taking audiences on a journey through his highly personalized graphic style. Viktor Pivovarov was born in Moscow in 1937. He graduated from the Kalinin Moscow College of Art and Industry in 1957 and the Moscow Polygraphic Institute in 1962. Since 1982, he has lived and worked in Prague.
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art |
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