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| | Arts Calendar / April 2 / Exhibitions |
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| Alexander Deineka: Build, Construc and Don't Whimper |
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The famous Russian painter Alexander Deineka's large exposition features the evolution of the creative works by the great artist and sculptor, one of the major style-forming figures of the Russian 20 century art. The exhibition reveals Deineka's unique talent featured in mosaics and other monumental works, paintings, sketches, bronze, stone and ceramic sculptors. The exhibition includes about 150 items from the collections of Tretyakov Gallery, Russian Museum, Kursk Deineka Gallery, State Historical Museum, Perm Art Gallery and other private collections. Read more
Tretyakov Gallery at Krymsky Val  |
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| Andy Warhol: Works on Paper 1955-1985 (USA) Collage |
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Depending on your point of view, Andy Warhol is the greatest American artist of the second half of the 20th century or a corrupter of art who destroyed painting and took us down the slippery slope of postmodernism. He is either a cultural transformer or a purveyor of campy kitsch. Descriptions of his personality range from “legendary sweetness” to “cold as a meat locker,” na?f peasant to cynical sophisticate, fine artist to con artist. In the first part of his career he was an iconoclast, in the second, the artist as businessman. Jean Cocteau’s definition of himself, Warhol is “the lie that tells the truth.” His paintings have the paradoxical quality of being both sexy and icily mechanical, and this ambivalence is at the core of his art.
K35 Art Gallery |
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From March 10 to June 27 Moscow welcomes the VIIIth International Photography Month "Photobiennale-2010" featuring exhibitions on three major themes: "Vive la France!", "Retrospectives", and "Perspectives". Lots of 'must-visit' large retrospectives of Magnum Agency photographers (Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martine Franck, Elliot Erwitt) takes place at the Central Exhibition Center "Manezh" as a part of "The Year of France in Russia" as well as Sarah Moon's film about one of the most "photographic" publishers ever Robert Delpire. Altogether "Photobiennale-2010" features more than 20 showrooms, galleries and other venues in Moscow including Manezh, Novy Manezh, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, State Museum of Modern Art of the Russian Academy of Arts, Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery, Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Ekaterina Cultural Fund, Na Solyanke Gallery, Project_Fabrika to name a few. Read more
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| Photobiennale-2010: Elliott Erwitt (France/USA) |
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With a touch of humour and an eye for the humane, Elliott Erwitt's black and white photographs reveal the most basic and candid human emotions. He developed his vision during the post-war rise of documentary photojournalism, and has captured many of life's most poignant ironies through an amusing vernacular. Born in Paris and raised in California and New York, Erwitt has pursued a photographic career in journalism, fashion, and print advertisement. His personal work has been published in countless monographs, and he has been a member of the prestigious Magnum agency since 1953. His photographs are collected and exhibited in museums around the world including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.; the Art Institute of Chicago; and Kunsthaus, Zurich. Read more
Manege |
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| Photobiennale-2010: Francoise Huguier (France) |
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Francoise Huguier is one of the great reportage photographers, winning the World Press Photo Prize in 1993. "Kommunalka" (Communal Apartment) is a series of photographs that were taken while renting a room in a communal apartment in Saint Petersburg. Francoise says: "My very first days in these communal apartments in St Petersburg were absolutely perplexing, and I realised it would take me several stays and an inside contact to get to the bottom of these weird, closed-off environments. Over several years I photographed the place and the daily life of the residents – and especially of Natasha, who set the rhythm of my visits. Implicitly, and without my realising it, she became the main strand in my narrative and in my desire to be there and stay there. She embodies the quintessence of these communal worlds and the magnetism of a city that has been gnawing at me for so many years." Read more
Schusev State Museum of Architecture |
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| Photobiennale-2010: Henri Cartier-Bresson (France) |
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Henri Cartier-Bresson, a founding father of photojournalism and one of the great photographers of all time, put down his Leica professionally in 1975 after a 45-year career behind the camera. Henri Cartier-Bresson was a shy Frenchman who elevated "snap shooting" to the level of a refined and disciplined art. His sharp-shooter’s ability to catch "the decisive moment," his precise eye for design, his self-effacing methods of work, and his literate comments about the theory and practice of photography made him a legendary figure among contemporary photojournalists. His pictures and picture essays were published in most of the world’s major magazines during three decades, and Cartier-Bresson prints hang in the leading art museums of the United States and Europe. "In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject," he wrote in ‘The Decisive Moment’. "The little human detail can become a leitmotif." Most of his photography is a collection of such little, human details; concerned images with universal meaning and suggestion. Read more
Manege |
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| Photobiennale-2010: Martine Franck (Belgium/France) |
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Martine Franck has been taking photographs since the mid-1960s and has accumulated one of the most remarkable bodies of work in the history of the medium. She joined the VU photographic agency in 1970, married Henri Cartier-Bresson the next year, and in 1972 helped establish the Viva agency in Paris. She then began her long-term project of photographing the elderly, the results of which first appeared as a book "Le Temps de Viellir" in 1980. Three years later she became a full member of the Magnum agency, and since then she has worked around the world making memorable images of everything from Tibetan tulkus, to Robert Wilson’s work for the Comedie-Francaise, to the tiny community of Tory Island, Donegal, Ireland. In addition, she is a close friend of Ariane Mnouchkine, founder of the Theatre du Soleil, and has photographed the company throughout her career. Read more
Manege |
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| Photobiennale-2010: Paolo Roversi (Italy) |
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Paolo Roversi is known internationally for his romantic, intense, and ethereal fashion images and portraits, photographs that quiver on the edge of their own seemingly fragile existence. A typical Roversi picture appears as if captured in the process of becoming - it develops on the page before our very eyes or, depending on perspective, it might simply vanish into the ether. Since 1980 Roversi has worked primarily with 8-by-10 inch Polaroids, and rarely on location. "Studio" is a milestone in his burgeoning bibliography. In images that represent nearly two decades of work, the collection offers a self-portrait of the artist and a window into the place where he creates his art. These photographs are a mix of both the published and the highly personal, but all have the intimacy engendered by that place where Roversi feels most at home. Read more
Manege |
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| Photobiennale-2010: Peter Lindbergh (Germany) |
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Since the 1980s, Peter Lindbergh has been one of the most-discussed interpreters of fashion internationally. he photographs in black-and-white using a pictorial language that takes its lead from early German cinema and from the free dance of the 1920s. In 1978, a much-admired fashion feature in Stern magazine marked the starting point of his international career as a fashion photographer. Peter moved to Paris the same year. Initially he worked work for Vogue, first the Italian version, then the English, French and German and American ones, later for Marie-Claire, New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Allure and Rolling Stone. In 1992, he signed a four-year contract with the American Harper's Bazaar in New York. At the same time he handled campaigns for Giorgio Armani, Jil Sander, Prada, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein. Portraits of Catherine Deneuve, Mick Jagger, Charlotte Rampling, Nastassja Kinski, Tina Turner, John Travolta, Madonna, Sharon Stone, John Malkovich and many others. Read more
Manege |
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| Photobiennale-2010: Pierre Boulat (France) |
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Mr. Boulat began his career at the Paris magazine Samedi Soir in 1945, photographing everything from the singer Edith Piaf to life in Palestine. His photograph of a tornado over Paris was published in Life in 1953; with an orange filter, it looked like a nuclear nightmare. This photo began his 23-year relationship with the magazine. Among the personalities he photographed for Life were Aristotle Onassis, Arthur Rubinstein, Karen Blixen, Federico Fellini, Truman Capote and Duke Ellington. Mr. Boulat became an independent photographer in 1973. Among Boulat's well-known subjects: the first French tourists in the Soviet Union in 1955; a study of the U.S. Military Academy; and the filming of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Read more
Zurab Gallery |
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| Photobiennale-2010: Rena Effendi (Azerbaijan) |
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Award-winning documentary photographer Rena Effendi's exhibition and book launch of her celebrated "Pipe Dreams" project, a compilation of more than six years work. Effendi's book "Pipe Dreams: A chronicle of lives along the pipeline" depicts her journey through Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, following the 1,700 km Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline - and documenting changes of life in these countries, each affected in their own way by the oil industry. The central character of this story - the Pipeline - is never physically present in her images but is depicted through portraits of people who have been impacted by its presence - resulting in impoverished interiors, and decimated landscapes. Rena Effendi reveals a reality very far from the glossy pictures of the oil conglomerates corporate calendars. She contrasts the images of the new Baku, with its luxurious apartments and increasingly wealthy inhabitants with the stories of people who live right next to the pipeline but struggle daily with poverty. Read more
Gallery.Photographer.ru |
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| Photobiennale-2010: Valery Shchekoldin |
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"When I shot this series of photographs about our beloved visual agitprop and the primitive political disinformation that foolishly persisted even if nobody took it seriously, I understood that you have to see the humour there. I thought up a new tendency called 'Sots-Cretinism' (analogous with Sots-Realism, or Socialist Realism) and set out to reveal the absurdity of the system. When I had enough photographs for this series I pasted them in an album and envisaged publishing a book entitled 'The Art of Degeneration'. But the Soviet regime was still in full swing: Brezhnev had only just died, Andropov was still alive - there was no thaw in sight and on the contrary, the system seemed set to tighten screws. So I viewed the book with a touch of humour too, and meanwhile went on collecting material. Now that period has become history, but history does have a strange habit of repeating itself. Everyone has their own pastime." Read more
Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery |
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Pushkin Fine Arts Museum unveils the exhibition "Picasso. Moscow. Collection of Musee National Picasso (National Picasso Museum), Paris". The National Picasso Museum possesses a unique collection of works by the great artist: paintings, graphics, sculptures, objects recreating the atmosphere of the master's creative laboratory and giving a strong feeling of Picasso still being there. Picasso Museum being temporarily closed for reconstruction formed a travelling exhibition to go on display in several countries. With the centerpieces travelling all the routes, the exposition in general has a number of features depending on the country of display. Moscow exhibition includes 240 items plus incidental material: 88 paintings, 30 sculptures, 6 ceramic items, 61 drawings, 4 engravings, 39 original photographs, 12 illustrated books. In a special audio-video section documentaries about Picasso are to be demonstrated including Henri-Georges Clouzot's "Le Mystere Picasso" (The Mystery of Picasso) depicting the creative process of the great master. Read more
Pushkin Fine Arts Museum |
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Special project by Francisco Infante and Nonna Gorunova. "Snow Meridian" is a project-installation of the artefacts on the snow. The project includes 162 works of different years including the first-time exhibited series "Alpine Snow".
Tretyakov Gallery at Krymsky Val |
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| Vasily Vereshchagin: 1812 |
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Vasily Vereshchagin belonged to the Russia democratic artistic school of the late 19th century. In 1887, he started working on a series of pictures dedicated to the Russian-French war of 1812. The task for challenging - Vereshchagin intended to create 20 pictures covering "simplicity and truth" of the history and his intention was received in different ways by the public and critics. In 1895 the State Historical Museum exhibited 10 pictures from this series. They got a warm welcome from the audience but officials capable of arranging the purchase showed restraint. In 1990, the series was completed. This grandiose picturesque chronicle consisting of 20 pictures covers war events from the Battle of Borodino to Napoleon's flight from Russia. The series also features two portraits of the French emperor. Vereshchagin wrote historical comments to his pictures that were published as special editions to the exhibitions.
Historical Museum |
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