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| English Posters of the late XIX-early XX Century |
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The exhibited posters reflect forming and flourishing of commercial advertising when professional artists got involved in the process to create true masterpieces of the genre. The exhibition shows how commercial art in UK evolved as well as exposes the audience to the London transport poster collection, political propaganda of the early XX century and advertising campaigns of Shell and British Petroleum. "English Posters of the late XIX-early XX Century" features unique items that are believed to be legends in the world of design – lithographs by the Beggarstaff brothers (English pioneers of the illustrated poster) as well as Dudley Hardy, John Hassle and their colleagues - the entire caricaturist team – members of the London sketch-club; book and magazine posters by the artist Aubrey Vincent Beardsley; works by the first recognized "Queen Designer" Tom Purvis.
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| Handmade Painted Temple Ceilings |
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Know-how of the Russian North temple architecture: painted wooden "nebesa" (Russian for "heaven") – a kind of false ceilings used (or still being used) to preserve warmth in temples that are so easily chilled. The central piece of the exhibition is a recently restored "heaven" from Nikolskaya chapel in Ust-Pocha village. The exhibition also features icons and church utensils, Yuri Palmin and Nikolay Kulebyakin's series of architectural and landscape photographs and a documentary "Kenozero: Heaven Chapels and Earth Keepers".
All-Russian Grabar Artistic Restoration Center |
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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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| Leonard Gianadda: Moscow. 1957 (Switzerland) |
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Museum of Private Collections unveils a photo exhibition "Moscow. 1957" by the journalist, art supporter and artist Leonard Gianadda. The exhibition features a unique collection of the reportage shootings made during the VI International Festival of Youth and Students by the then 22 year-old Leonard who had come to Moscow as an Illistre reporter and a member of the official Swiss delegation. Step by step, photo by photo "Moscow. 1957" reveals official, masterfully "staged" moments of the festival and the other side of the "Soviet idyll". Festival extravaganza stands side by side with the everyday scenes and images of the ordinary Muscovites of that period.
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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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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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"The Best of Russia 2009" is a public all-Russian annual project organized by WinZavod with the support of Russia's Ministry of Culture. "The Best of Russia" aims to cover life of the whole county showing it with the eyes of people living in it. The competition lasted from May 15 to October 15. Both professionals and amateurs from all Russia's regions took part in the project. More than 25,000 photographs were sent. The authoritative jury featuring representatives of Russia's Ministry of Culture, editors-in-chief of the Moscow leading magazines and famous professional photographs chose the best of the best. More than 300 works compile the exhibition "The Best of Russia 2009" displayed at WinZavod (White and Red Hall).
WinZavod |
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"Nashchokin House" hosts a sensational exhibition "The Nude. XX Century" featuring painting, graphics, sculpture – altogether more than 100 works by 100 artists of the XX century. Some works were culled from the storerooms of museums, some – from private collection. The exhibition presents nude works by representatives of nearly all painting trends to emerge in XX century. The centerpiece of the exposition is Petr Konchalovsky's "Bathing of Red Horse Cavalry" created in 1928 for the 10th anniversary of Red Army - it has never been exhibited to the public before.
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| XXVIII Russian Antique Salon |
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About 200 Russian galleries and private collections are taking part in the 28th Russian Antique Salon to open on February 27 at the Central House of Artists. The 28th Russian Antique Salon features works by Russian and foreign painters, graphic artists, miniature painters, craftsmen. Along with traditional collectable items – Russian paintings of the 19th century, old bronze, porcelain – the salon presents new trends – glyptics (carving on stones), old frames and cloths, designer bijouterie of the 20th century.
Central House of Artists |
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