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Arts Calendar / August 28 / Exhibitions
House of Impressions. Classic and Contemporary Media Art
KorzhevThe Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts presents the first project of its newly established Department of Film and Media Arts. The exhibition «House of Impressions. Classic and Contemporary Media Art» in the Museum Quarter of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts represents a collection of 19 artworks of outstanding video and media artists of the 20th and 21st century. The project is dedicated to the collision of the past and the present, the innovative processes, which occurred in the 20th century and were related to the “liberation” of artistic tools and media. The Museum invites visitors not only to the space of the old Manor, but also into the space of installations created by taking into account the genio loci. Today’s art strives to go beyond not only the picture frame, but beyond the space of the screen. Amongst all the features of the works in “House of Impressions – Classic and Contemporary Media Art,” this is one of the most important ones. Moreover, in the 21st century a museum does not need to be absolutely quiet – our sight, hearing and movement through the museum display are the means of our perception; from the retina of the eye to a tactile sensation – such is the process of immersion in the image.
Pushkin State Musem of Fine Arts. Prince Golitsyn Family Estate 
Ivan Aivazovsky. For the 200th Anniversary
The Tretyakov Gallery is preparing a large-scale monographic exhibition of Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900), one of the best-known and most popular painters in Russia. His art includes the themes that touched many generations of artists: the attempts to depict infinite, limitless spaces, the desire to capture the ever-changing nature in a given moment of time. From the large number of works created by Aivazovsky (based on his own estimate, approximately 6000), the exhibition presents about 100 paintings and 50 graphic works. The curators’ selection will allow the viewers to see the best examples of Aivazovsky paintings: seascapes, battle scenes, graphics works. The exhibition will display simultaneously four most significant paintings of the artist: “The Rainbow” (1873), “The Black Sea” (1881, both from Tretyakov Gallery), “The Ninth Wave” (1850), “The Wave” (1889, both from State Russian Museum). For the first time, the art lovers will see the large format painting “On the shores of the Caucasus” (1885, Tretyakov Gallery) that has never been on show before. The documentary section will introduce Aivazovsky as a patron of arts, the first honorary citizen of Theodosia. The exhibition will also include models of ships, compasses, globes, telescopes. Participants: the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the National Art Gallery named after Ivan Aivazovsky (Theodosia), regional Russian museums, private collections. Until 20.11.16
Tretyakov Gallery at Krymsky Val 
Leon Bakst. In Honor of the 150th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birth
BakstBakst was a Russian theatrical designer, painter, portraitist, book illustrator, interior designer, and fashion designer during the 1910s. He published numerous articles on contemporary design and dance, he was also interested in photography and cinema, and wrote a novel based on his biography. Being fond of the art of Ancient Greece and Orient, Bakst merged classical motives with the eccentricity of Art Nouveau in his art. This first retrospective exhibition of the artist to be shown in Russia will include more than 200 paintings, drawings, theatrical costumes and archive photos of Leon Bakst from Russian and Western state and private collections, gathered together by an international group of curators.
Pushkin Fine Arts Museum 
Leon Steinmetz. The Spell of Antiquity
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is pleased to present the exhibition, “Leon Steinmetz. The Spell of Antiquity.” Leon Steinmetz, a contemporary American artist of Russian origin, is known for his free, unrestrained drawing style and his elegant, refined colors. His works, ranging from abstract to figurative, are at the same time witty and deeply thoughtful. Steinmetz’s first international recognition came when, as a very young artist, he was awarded first prize at the biennale in Latina, Italy for a series of paintings inspired by Ovid’s “Metamorphosis.” This success was followed by multiple exhibitions. Steinmetz's work is represented in the permanent collections of the world’s major museums: the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the British Museum in London, the Dresden Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Albertina in Vienna, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art among them, as well as in private collections around the world. In addition, works by Leon Steinmetz are widely represented in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts collection.
Pushkin Fine Arts Museum 
Preserving the Fruits of Enormous Labor
PushkinRussian and Western European Art from the Ilya Silberstein Collection. The exhibition is dedicated to the 110th anniversary of Ilya Silberstein’s birth (1905–1988). Ilya Silberstein was a prominent researcher, art collector and public figure who initiated the creation of the Museum of Private Collections (today known as Private Collections Department) of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition will show paintings, prints and drawings created by masters of leading European schools: Luca Cambiaso, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Bosschaert, Leonaert Bramer, Jan van Bijlert, Bartholomaus Spranger, Anthelme François Lagrenée; works by Russian painters of the 18th – 20th century: Alexander Ivanov, Karl Bryullov, Vladimir Borovikovsky, Alexey Bogolyubov, Ilya Repin, Ivan Shishkin, Valentin Serov, Mikhail Vrubel. The exhibition will also feature an unusually extensive selection of artworks created by Western European artists for Russian collectors and art lovers – Pietro Gonzago, Giacomo Quarenghi, Jean-François Thomas de Tomon, academic drawings, Decembrists’ portraits by Nikolay Bestuzhev, works by the “Mir Iskusstva” group.
Pushkin State Musem of Fine Arts. Private Collections 
Rashid Johnson. Within Our Gates
JohnsonFor the third commission in Garage Atrium, New York-based artist Rashid Johnson will produce an installation using a towering grid structure to house a unique, living ecosystem in the Museum that visitors can enter and explore. Constructed as a maze-like environment for all the senses, Within Our Gates integrates tropical plants such as palms, dracaenas, ficus, and ferns, with sculptural elements, moving image, sound, and everyday objects to immerse the viewer in the artist’s poetic manifestation of a world where fictions and facts, histories and speculations converge. His first project in Russia, this is also the largest work the artist has ever made. Describing his new work as “a brain,” the artist has drawn on both “high” and popular culture for his source material. Rashid Johnson (b. 1977) is based in New York. He was born in Chicago to an African History professor and a CB radio enthusiast who owned a small electronics and radio communication company: “I grew up between my father’s laboratory and my mother’s library,” Johnson has remarked. These contrasting views on the world have been an influence ever since.
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art  
The Modern Art: 1960–2000. Restart
Modern ArtThe Modern Art: 1960–2000. Restart is a part of the project “The Tretyakov Gallery opens its store”. One of the most important functions of a museum is to find and include into its collection the best and most important key works of the modern art. The new version of the permanent exhibition of the modern art demonstrates the diversity of artistic trends in the art of the second half of the XX century. The exhibition has the purpose to overcome the viewers’ misunderstandings and mistrust towards contemporary art, to acquaint them with the most interesting works, to create an adequate idea of the vast cultural period, forming the art space around us.
Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val 
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