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| | Arts Calendar / July 10 / Exhibitions |
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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.
Pushkin Fine Arts Museum |
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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."
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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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| 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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