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| | Arts Calendar / March 27 / Exhibitions |
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| "Flea Market" Art Project |
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Flea market is so amazingly unpredictable. A lacy serviette may nestle an old copper key from a secret door, a silver candlestick may be close to a mechanical piggy bank and on a carved sideboard you may find a coloured glass bottle. Variety is flea market's major feature tempting again and again. On March 25-28 "Flea Market" Art-Project invites you for the 16th time to visit this unique exhibition. Stands arranged in imitation of an open-air bazaar are to be filled with interior and household items, vintage jewellery, toys, furniture, paintings, decorative and applied arts from Europe's flea markets, Asian markets, bazaars, Russian province. Prices are reasonable, barging is welcomed and atmosphere is favourable for free and easy talks. Open: on weekdays from 12:00 until 21:00 and on weekends from 11:00 until 21:00.
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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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| Jean-Marc Bustamante (France) |
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Jean-Marc Bustamante was born in Toulouse, France in 1952 to a South American father and an English mother. In the late 1970s, after a period of assisting photographer William Klein, Bustamante changed the perception of photography in French art with his monumental "Tableaux", a series of photos of the Barcelona region that blurred the boundary between painting and photography. After his four year collaboration with sculptor Bernard Bazile (1983-87), Bustamante continued extending his practice to media other than photography. His work is the perfect synthesis where past experiences merge, embodying different artistic languages that melt in a new and personal visual language. In Moscow Bustamante presents a full-fledged retrospective that thoroughly shows how his art evolved from the very beginning in the 1970s till his recent paintings on plexiglas. This exhibition is a kind of "total installation" with the artist being both an author and a curator; and it covers different aspects of Jean-Marc's talent. Chronological order and blending of diverse motifs, names, colours and materials make the audience feel and recreate those links connecting photography, sculpture and painting. Ten European collections and museums take part in the exhibition, including S.M.A.K. museum (Belgium), Sain Etienne Museum (France) and Municipal Fund of Paris Contemporary Art.
Ekaterina Cultural Fund |
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| Martiros Saryan: Retrospective (Armenia) |
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Martiros Saryan was a great Armenian artist mastering bright colourful palette, a member of many artistic unions: "Blue Rose", Union of Russian Artists", World of Art". Martiros was mainly a landscape painter though his retrospective features portraits as well. Tretyakov Gallery unveils Martiros Saryan's Retrospective compiled from the entire gallery's collection of his works: paintings, watercolours, drawings and theatre sketches created by the artist since 1906.
Tretyakov Gallery at Krymsky Val |
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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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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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| Stanley Greene: Black Passport (USA) |
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"Black Passport" is the biography of the life of war photographer Stanley Greene. It shows Greene’s war images alternated with private images. The viewer makes acquaintance with Stanley’s friends, his wife (later ex-wife), his female friends and his colleagues. Just as Greene himself, the viewer experiences being tossed to and from between the safe western life and the horrors of wars elsewhere. The basis of "Black Passport" is, in addition to the photography, a long monologue by Greene. Teun van der Heijden put this monologue together from rough material that was the result of eight extended interviews, and is presented as a film script, in 26 short scenes. The scenes do not form a sequential story, but are a kaleidoscope of Greene’s key experiences. Read more
Meglinskaya Gallery |
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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.
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