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| Inna Zaitseva: Wheeling Heart |
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 MAMM presents "Wheeling Heart", a project by the young Moscow photographer Inna Zaytseva. The aim of this project is to draw public attention to the problems of people with disabilities, and ultimately to change our attitudes towards those obliged to use a wheelchair. This exhibition is about the love of life, on which everything depends. The impetus for the project came from the photographer’s own personal experience: it took one and a half years for Inna Zaytseva to get permission for a ramp to be installed at the entrance to the Moscow apartment block where her wheelchair-bound mother lives. Due to the situation with her own family, the author of this project was confronted by the psychological difficulties of a loved one faced with an unexpected about-turn in their living conditions. We are often told to feel sympathy and compassion for others. That contributes to our sense of confusion and awkwardness when we encounter a wheelchair user. Although often these are successful and confident individuals who can inspire us by their example, by their attitude to life, their inner strength and self-belief. "Those who took part in our project are active, charismatic, amazing people who practise various types of sport, dancing and horse-riding, who organise theatrical and social projects, and much more," says Inna Zaytseva. "Twenty-one people have already become involved in the project, and every day we find new participants with new aspirations and concepts they are eager to implement. Our heroes travel, they live a busy life, so it doesn’t matter in what city we hold the photo shoot... we can organise a project anywhere in the world." Her project is an exchange of ideas about a serious social issue, conducted without undertones of mentoring. It is often said that we should appreciate what we have, but at times people fail to see how things that are so natural for us can be inaccessible to others. Without dialogue our stereotypes create barriers and prevent understanding. "Wheeling Heart" offers that dialogue. It is a source of inspiration for all those who love life. Until 04.06.17
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| Artist's Model in the Camera Objective |
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 The Artist’s Model through Camera Lens exhibition will be held as part of the 10th Moscow International Biennale “Fashion and Style in Photography 2017” at the State Tretyakov Gallery. Museum goers will be able to view the original photographs of the elegantly dressed models who posed for Ilya Repin, Ivan Kramskoy, Mikhail Nesterov, Valentin Serov, Konstantin Korovin, and Viktor Borisov-Musatov. Those pictures feature people who were sitters for famous paintings of Russian artists. Some shots registered the very moment of modeling, others were made to record outdoor impressions as auxiliary material for later work on canvases. The photographs were made in the second half of the 19th and the early 20th century. The same room will feature both photographs and paintings. The organisers believe that the display will help visitors to better understand how the artistic image took shape. They will be able to gauge the talent and comprehend how photographers and painters saw their models. Until 28.05.17
Tretyakov Gallery at Lavrushinsky Lane |
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| Giorgio de Chirico. Metaphysical Insights Exhibition |
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 The Tretyakov Gallery presents Russia’s first major exhibition of paintings by the Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico, one of the leading 20th century masters and founder of the Metaphysical Art movement. The Treatyakov Gallery project reveals all sides of Giorgio de Chirico’s creativity – classical metaphysical, post-metaphysical, interpretation of antique and mythological plots, turning to old masters’ works, and many more. The painter’s creation has been presented comprehensively giving visitors a chance to contemplate his impact on European and Russian painters. On display will be paintings, etchings, sculptures and theatre costumes the master designed for Sergei Dyagilev’s private ballet performance of The Ball, 1929. The exhibition will feature a unique publication on Giorgio de Chirico’s creativity, which will be complemented by the exhibition’s curator Tatyana Goryacheva’s article about the painter’s influence on Russian art and articles by Italian experts. Until 23.07.17
Tretyakov Gallery at Krymsky Val |
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| Giorgio Morandi: 1890 – 1964 Exhibition |
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 The Pushkin Museum will present a large collection of works by one of the most outstanding Italian masters of the early 20th century Italian art, Giorgio Morandi. The exhibition aims at showing the scale of the artist’s creativity. The exposition includes about 70 paintings and water colours, 20 etchings and several original plates from world famous museums and collections. The works describe all stages of the master’s creative evolution – from metaphysical avant-garde and traditional Italian pieces to the latest ones, characterised by austerity and a depth of image. Giorgio Morandi was an Italian painter and printmaker who specialized in still life. His paintings are noted for their tonal subtlety in depicting apparently simple subjects, which were limited mainly to vases, bottles, bowls, flowers and landscapes. Until 10.09.17
Pushkin State Musem of Fine Arts. European and American Art |
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| Irina Korina. The Tail Wags the Comet |
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 Irina Korina has produced a three-story architectural intervention for Garage Atrium space that physically and ideologically transports audiences into different surroundings. Opened in conjunction with the first Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art, the Atrium Commission explores the contradictions, humor, and pathos of national and cultural identity. In describing the concept of The Tail Wags the Comet—the largest work the artist has made to date—Korina says: “It is about the frustration of longing for something you will never see or achieve and the notion of a desired future that is met with nothing but mundane reality.” Irina Korina (b. 1977, Moscow) graduated in stage design from the Russian Academy of Theater Arts (GITIS) in 2000. She also attended a course in New Artistic Strategies at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow (2000), as well as at the Valand Academy of Fine Arts in Gothenburg (2000) and the Academy of Arts in Vienna (2005). Until 06.08.17. Read more
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art |
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| Philippe Chancel. Rebels’ Paris 1982 |
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 Over the past twenty years Philippe Chancel’s photography has explored the complex, shifting and fertile territory where art, documentaries and journalism meet. His is a constantly evolving project, focusing on the status of images when they are confronted with what constitutes “images” in the contemporary world. Born in 1959, Philippe Chancel now works and lives in Paris. He was introduced to photography at a very young age, took an economics degree at the University of Paris (Nanterre) followed by a post-graduate diploma in journalism in Paris. Philippe Chancel’s work has been widely exhibited and published in France and abroad in a number of prestigious publications. These include "Regards d’artistes" – portraits of contemporary artists, "Souvenirs" – a series of portraits of great capital cities (Paris, London, New York, Tokyo, Brussels) glimpsed through shop windows - produced in collaboration with Valérie Weill, and, lastly, his North Korean project, which brought him international recognition. Philippe Chancel is currently working on a new long-term project entitled « Datazone » that aims to explore the many-faceted aftermaths within the documentary field, revealing some of the world’s most singular lands which are recurrently in the news or, conversely, hardly ever picked up by the media radar. This visionary quest has already taken him from Port au Prince to Kabul via Fukushima, Niger's delta, Pyongyang or Astana. His work is included in many permanent public collections as well as private collections. Untill 26.11.17
Moscow Museum of Modern Art |
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 This is a large-scale culture history exhibition project dedicated to one period of Russian national history which is traditionally labelled by scholars as the “Thaw.” The mission of this exhibition is to show not only the achievements of that period, but also its challenges and conflicts. The display includes works of painters, sculptors, and movie directors who were witnesses and agents of decisive transformations in the most important spheres of the lives of the Soviet people. Their opinions are controversial, which makes the exhibition all the more versatile. The exhibition area is designed around a few thematic sections, such as “Talking with Father,” “The Best City on Earth,” “International Relations,” “The New Ways of Life,” “Exploration,” “Atom — Space,” “Towards the Communism!” A variety of artifacts will be integrated into the expo space, such as painted and graphic works, sculptures, household items, samples of designs, video projections with footage from feature films and documentaries. Participants: the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the Institute of the Russian Realistic Art, Russia’s museum and private collections. Until 11.06.17
Tretyakov Gallery at Krymsky Val |
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| Ugo Rondinone. your age and my age and the age of the rainbow |
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 The artist’s first project in Russia consists of two interconnected pieces: an installation in front of the Museum, and an object on its rooftop. In Garage Square, visitors find a one-hundred-meter-long fence supporting thousands of images of rainbows painted on wood panels by kids with various disabilities from all over the country. Garage Rooftop also hosts a ten-meter-long rainbow that spells out OUR MAGIC HOUR. This message celebrates the inauguration of the first Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art, which is taking place simultaneously inside the Museum. Fifteen hundred panels of different sizes, from 40 x 30 cm to 125 x 80 cm, are displayed on the front and back of the fence. Rondinone has realized a number of communal works, but this is his largest and longest rainbow fence to date. Unlike the previous ones, it is the first to be exhibited outside a museum, accessible to park visitors. Until 21.05.17. Read more
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art |
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 This exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery will be one of the greatest displays ever of the Russian painter’s works over a period of 30 years. The exposition will include two periods of the painter’s creative life – Russian and French. There will be lots of portraits, the painter’s favourite genre, and landscapes. The exhibition will include sketches of murals of the Kazansky Railway Station in Moscow and a series of paintings revealing the behind-the-scene world of the Mariinsky Theatre. Works dating back to the Paris period have never been showcased in Russia before. Decorative panels of the Brouwer Villa, which for a long time was considered lost in World War II, will also be on display in Moscow for the first time. The exhibition will also feature the best works from Russian and Belarusian museum collections as well as private collections from Moscow, St Petersburg, Paris and London. Until 30.07.17
Tretyakov Gallery at Lavrushinsky Lane |
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