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Salvador Dali and Media
Salvador DaliThe Moscow Museum of Modern Art together with the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation presents Salvador Dali and Media exhibition. For the first time in Russia, artworks by one of the most well-known provokers in the 20th-century art will be shown in the light of media. The exhibition partner is the Spanish jewelry design house Carrera y Carrera, which will present a special project in one of the halls at 10 Gogolevsky boulevard. The project is an imaginary result of the collaboration between Dalí and Carrera y Carrera glossy publications. Salvador Dali's artworks are traditionally divided into periods, directly related to the geopolitical situation in the world. However, the exhibition in the MMOMA will not be arranged chronologically. Viewers can choose the way they go through the exhibition themselves. The show is divided into two parts, inextricably connected with each other. The first one will demonstrate Dali at work. Covers and articles for Vogue, GQ, TV Guide, Newsweek, Town&Country, This Week magazines and many other editions will introduce the audience to Dali the illustrator and the art director, the writer and the editor. The MMOMA halls will tell about each new role of the artist. The second part is a world of images which are an integral part of the era of the Fourth Estate, where the artist worked. Giant eggs, female legs in Bryans Hosiery, lips and, of course, Dali's famous mustaches recreate the unique space of Dali's mad world. But surrealism will be interrupted by a hall of ratio, without which it is impossible to imagine the work of the genius with media. Numbers have accompanied from the very beginning of his creative work be it circulation of a publication he has contributed to, a number of covers or the author's emoluments he received from one of the largest publishing houses. Dali's oeuvre in mass media was inextricably connected with the imagery one finds in his art. His work as an illustrator was neither casual nor a temporary passion. It was one of the foundations of his total oeuvre. The artist's creative development, the beginning of his career coincided with the post-crisis period, the first five-years plan and the New Deal of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The political situation in the world defined the time of smart magazines (L'Amic de les arts, Gaseta de les Arts, the Minotaur), where Dali was an active theorist. Towards the late 1930s, the consumer society brought about glossy magazines and large-circulation newspapers. In search of scoops both of them turned to the artist, while he actively used his image, easily transforming into a pressman, an illustrator, an editor or even a publisher. Dali would reuse the same eccentric themes many times. It became especially evident in 1934 in the American Weekly, published by William Hearst. Collaboration between Dali and media was unique because of his wonderful ability to communicate with readers using clear symbols that made any Dalí campaign successful, be it advertising of Isotta or Chen Yu lipstick. In 1939, when the theory of the Surrealist object had conquered the world, Salvador Dali signed a contract with Conde Nast. In the same year flower bouquets in the place of female heads appeared in the set of the artist's most used images. The celebrated series of Bryans silk stockings ads was published a year later. Dozens of female legs pointed to the sky or to the earth, replacing the wings of Pegasus, making symmetrical arches, ambiguously sticking out from behind arm-chairs. In the first years of the Second World War, Dali filled the double page in the Click magazine No 42 with surrealist images of dreams and fashion. In just ten years Dali the artist became a living legend. The first years of the post-war decade saw the implementation of the idea of general mobilization was the loss of former market rules and the appearance of a free trade zone. It was the period when Dali became especially interested in media as a domain most open to experiments. The first issue of the Dali News magazine confirmed the idea. Monarch of the Dalies was an imitation of the popular Daily News, issued in tabloid format with four pages, eight columns and huge headlines. It was published in 1945 for Dali exhibition in New York. Close and long-term collaboration between Dali and mass media was only partially covered by the 2004 "Dali. Mass culture" exhibition, at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid. It was a part of the celebrations marking the centenary of Salvador Dali's birth. This year, the world is marking the 110th anniversary of the birth of the great Spanish artist.
Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Gogolevsky bulv 
Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition
TitanicTitanic: The Artifact Exhibition takes you on a journey back in time to experience the legend of Titanic like never before. This fascinating exhibition features real artifacts recovered from the ocean floor along with room re-creations and personal stories. Engineering, physics and social studies are all addressed as you explore the science of Titanic. On April 15, 1912, Titanic, the world's largest ship, sank after colliding with an iceberg claiming more than 1,500 lives and subsequently altering the world's confidence in modern technology. 102 years later, Imagination Station pays tribute to the tragedy which continues to resonate through Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, where more than 150 legendary artifacts conserved from the ship's debris field are showcased offering visitors a poignant look at this iconic Ship and its passengers. The exhibition has been designed with a focus on the legendary RMS Titanic's compelling human stories as best told through over 150 authentic artifacts and extensive room re-creations. Perfume from a maker who was traveling to New York to sell his samples, china etched with the logo of the elite White Star Line, even a pair of almost perfectly preserved men's dress shoes - these and many other authentic objects offer haunting, emotional connections to lives abruptly ended or forever altered. Visitors are quickly drawn back in time to 1912 upon entrance, as each receives a replica boarding pass of an actual passenger aboard Titanic. They then begin their chronological journey through Titanic's life, moving through the ship's construction, to life on board, to the ill-fated sinking and amazing artifact rescue efforts. They will marvel at the re-created First and Third class cabins, and press their palms against an iceberg while learning of countless stories of heroism and humanity. More info
Afimall City 
Walk Around Moscow
Walk Around Moscow"Walk Around Moscow" exhibition is held at the Vlakhernskoye-Kuzminki Estate from October 10th, 2014 till April 20th, 2015. The exposition includes amazing photographies of the Moscow streets making one hundred year ago and today. The historical part of the display consists a selection of reproductions which were done during 1912-1915 from Emile Gautier-Dufayer's albums. The photographies captured daily life at the streets, lanes and squares of the capital, and now they have cognitive and artistic value for viewers of our days. In the early 20th century the Archaeological Society made a decision about full-scale photographing of the city and that was carried out by E.V. Gautier-Dufaye. This remarkable work was interrupted by World War I in 1914. The collection contains about 500 photos, which are unique evidences of the Moscow history of the past century. The pictures by Emil Gautier-Dufaye are accompanied with modern photos of the same places, with the same foreshortenings and perspectives which were made by photographers of the "Moscow Time" foundation in 2005-2013. The comparison of the pictures shows that some places haven't changed a lot and others are almost unrecognizable for modern persons. The exhibition should excite an interest to the history of Moscow, its streets and buildings which are changing every year and losing their historical look. The "Moscow Time" foundation is a nonprofit organization that carries out programs and conducts events in the area of culture, science, and education. The cultural and educational activity of the foundation is directed at studying Moscow and its historical traditions, documenting changes in Moscow photographically, and acquainting the wide public in Russia and abroad with the past and modern images of Moscow and its people. The foundation organizes and conducts exhibitions, publishes printed materials, and does charity work. The goal of the "Moscow Time" project is to demonstrate historical, architectural, cultural, and sociological changes that have occurred in the last century and a half in Moscow. For this, photographs of Moscow and its people of the late 19th–early 20th century are sought in archives. These photographs are digitized and repaired. Photographs of the same city sites are then taken from the same angles as were the old photographs. The pairs of photographs thus obtained are accompanied by literary texts or commentaries.
Vlakhernskoye-Kuzminki Estate 
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