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| | Arts Calendar / July 25 / Exhibitions |
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 The landscape objects festival "Archstoyanie-2014" is an unique art-event in Nikola-Lenivets Park - the park of original natural and cultural environment projects for live and creativity. The theme of the project 2014 is "Here and Now" in architecture which will be open in acoustic and performing art practices of international and Russian artists, through music and dance, light and visual effects and other forms of art. The "Archstoyanie" participants will combine past with present, the thoroughness with ephemeral. The curator of the international program of "Archstoyanie-2014" Richard Castelli tells that the nature of "Archstoyanie" which is both an architectural event and festival is a good base to observe a transient component of the architecture." Richard Castelli is the founder and director of Epidemic and is the curator of several exhibitions among others in Berlin, Shanghai, Roma, Istanbul. He is also the producer of different artists: Jean Michel Bruyere, Du Zhenjun, Dumb Type, Granular Synthesis, Kurt Hentschlager, Ulf Langheinrich, Robert Lepage, and Saburo Teshigawara. As filmmaker, he directed several short and medium size films broadcast on many international TV channels and got several awards including Golden Award of Rio de Janeiro Music Film Festival (Brazil) and 1st prize of Estavar Festival (Spain). "The field is design" group will place their new belvedere in the landscape park Versailles as part of the festival, and this object will finish a system of high-rise belvederes together with "Rotunda" by Alexander Brodskiy (2009) and "Arc" by Boris Bernaskoni (2012). The artists from Germany, France, Japan and Russia such as Mark Formanek, Sachiko Abe and Alexander Wiseman will open the theme in their interactive installations. Mark Formanek is best known for his artwork "Standard Time", a performance lasting exactly 24 hours and recorded on film. "However, this film is much more than just the recording of an action, the recording of something that has taken place in the past; it is also a clock. A clock for use right now and in the future which, as each day goes by, extends further into the past, but is still up-to-date and punctual." Japanese artist Sachiko Abe's works encompasses performance, drawing, film and sculptural installations using cut papers accumulated over the last eight years. Her practice explores duration, repetition and constraints. Sachiko Abe has featured in numerous international exhibitions and residency projects presenting; Cut Papers, a body of work first shown publicly at including PS1 in New York in March 2004 following her residency there. Since then she has shown most recently at Knstnernes Haus, Oslo, Norway, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Kyoto Art Centre, Kyoto, and Baltic Gateshead. In her performance series titled Cut Papers she discovers the calming effects of shredding paper. She says, "the act of cutting is a constant exercise through which I organize and structure my random thoughts." It is through the repetitive, time-consuming process that the artist finds a peaceful state of mind. She goes on to say, "The rhythm of the scissors, the fineness and the length of the paper strip correspond to the process of my thinking, and its effect to the body. While essentially personal, Cut Papers is a necessary practice for me to formulate my relationship to the external world." There were built 101 art-objects which have became a part of Nikola-Lenivets Park's landscape or moved to other areas and took part more then 150 authors since the first "Archstoyanie" festival. More info
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| Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond Style |
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 Rare costumes, atmospheric sets, iconic gadgets, props, original photographs and concept drawings will thrill audiences in this summer blockbuster exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the James Bond franchise from 11 June 2014 to 7 September 2014. Celebrating the craft behind the world's most iconic movie brand, Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond Style takes visitors on an immersive journey through a dozen themed rooms and environments, from 1962's Dr No to 2012's Skyfall. Featuring over 500 unforgettable objects: Roger Moore's white tuxedo from Octopussy and the spacesuit from Moonraker; Scaramanga's Golden Gun from The Man With The Golden Gun, Jaws' fearsome teeth which first appeared in The Spy Who Loved Me; gadgets from Q Branch including the attache case given to Bond in From Russia With Love; Omega Seamaster watches from Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and The World Is Not Enough (1999) with built-in special features; and the 1964 silver Aston Martin DB5 from GoldenEye which famously returned to the screen in Skyfall. Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond Style is the result of collaboration between the Barbican Centre, London, and the Bond production company, EON Productions. It is a unique exhibition, guest-curated by fashion historian Bronwyn Cosgrave and Oscar®-winning costume designer Lindy Hemming and is designed by Ab Rogers who all had unprecedented access to EON's production archive. EON Productions Limited and Danjaq LLC are wholly owned and controlled by the Broccoli/Wilson family. Danjaq is the US based company that co-owns, with MGM, the copyright in the existing James Bond films and controls the right to produce future James Bond films as well as all worldwide merchandising. EON Productions, an affiliate of Danjaq, is the UK based production company which makes the James Bond films. The 007 franchise is the longest running in film history with twenty-two films produced since 1962. Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli succeeded Albert R "Cubby" Broccoli and have produced some of the most successful Bond films ever including Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and Skyfall. A world-class arts and learning organisation, the Barbican pushes the boundaries of all major art forms including dance, film, music, theatre and visual arts. Its creative learning programme further underpins everything it does. Over 1.5 million people pass through the Barbican’s doors annually, hundreds of artists and performers are featured, and more than 300 staff work onsite. The architecturally renowned centre opened in 1982 and comprises the Barbican Hall, the Barbican Theatre, the Pit, Cinemas One, Two and Three, Barbican Art Gallery, a second gallery The Curve, foyers and public spaces, a library, Lakeside Terrace, a glasshouse conservatory, conference facilities and three restaurants. The City of London Corporation is the founder and principal funder of the Barbican Centre.
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 Multimedia Art museum and Moscow House of Photography, International Committee of the Red Cross (Geneve / Moscow), The Polish Army Museum (Warsaw), Imperial War Museum (London), Museum of Military History (Vienna), The Royal Museum of Army and Military History (Brussels), Foundation for Preservation of the Russian Heritage (Brussels), Museum of Nicephore Niepce (Chalon-sur-Saone, France) and others present an exhibition "The War That Ended Peace" dedicated to the First World War centenary. "The War That Ended Peace" is the extensive international project which was organized by leading world museums, state archives and private collectors. The exhibition reconstructs the war 1914-1918 and shows it through the eyes of all participants, through the voices, photographs, letters and mementoes of those who were there. The title of the exhibition is the title of Margaret MacMillan's book "The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 2014" telling the history of the political, cultural, military and personal forces which shaped Europe's path to the Great War. Margaret MacMillan is one of the most recognized and respected historians in the English-speaking world, comes with much expectation. Her 2003 worldwide bestseller, Paris 1919, won many distinguished awards and was one of the handful of non-fiction books in a given year that become must-reads for everyone, from the intelligentsia to the historically minded general reader. The First World War was a turning point in world history. It claimed the lives of over 22 million people across the globe and had an impact on the lives of everyone. To the First World War centenary a lot of European museums will develope a vibrant programme of cultural projects and events to help people everywhere understand the First World War and its impact on society and individuals today. In Moscow Multimedia Art museum the display will start from the Viennese Museum of Military History's collection photographies, which argue about formal beginning of the war. The important accents of the exhibition space will be 13 screens in the museum halls: a news-reel illustrating the most significant events of every year of the war will show at the six of screens; the frames titled "Water", "Death", "Air", "Trenches", "Attack" and others at the seven of the screens. The exhibition's objects also includes photographies by amateurs who took part in the First World War, stereophotographies and stereoscopic projections, creating a three-dimensional image, and avtohromy presenting the war in color, collections of photographies from Red Cross archive, "Le Miroir" magazine and Russian editions, caricatures, color and black-and-white lithographies, posters by Kazimir Malevich, Aristarkh Lentulov, Vladimir Mayakovsky.
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