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Arts Calendar / September 3 / Exhibitions
Bone Music
Bone Music is an exhibition examining a unique episode in postwar Soviet history. From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, inventive Soviet music lovers made illegal copies of banned music on used X-ray film. Their recordings were not limited to Western jazz and rock-n-roll, but also featured Russian émigré music, as well as popular prison and gypsy songs. Putting their freedom at risk, Soviet bootleggers brought some of the hits of the era to a broader Soviet audience and added an exciting chapter to the history of samizdat. Their craft died out in the mid-1960s with the introduction of reel-to-reel recorders, but left a legacy of sonically and visually unique artifacts. The exhibition at Garage presents research by the X-Ray Audio project (London). Along with the original recordings on x-ray film, visitors will hear the stories of people who made, distributed and played them. The installation produced for the Moscow exhibition features ephemera of the period immersing the audience in an atmosphere where underground technology, forbidden culture, recycling, Cold War politics, and human ingenuity intersect. It reveals the unintentional beauty of the rare “bone music” disks and accentuates the accidental aesthetics of these artifacts of clandestine production, born out of necessity. Until 05.10.17
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art  
Giorgio Morandi: 1890 – 1964 Exhibition
The Pushkin Museum will present a large collection of works by one of the most outstanding Italian masters of the early 20th century Italian art, Giorgio Morandi. The exhibition aims at showing the scale of the artist’s creativity. The exposition includes about 70 paintings and water colours, 20 etchings and several original plates from world famous museums and collections. The works describe all stages of the master’s creative evolution – from metaphysical avant-garde and traditional Italian pieces to the latest ones, characterised by austerity and a depth of image. Giorgio Morandi was an Italian painter and printmaker who specialized in still life. His paintings are noted for their tonal subtlety in depicting apparently simple subjects, which were limited mainly to vases, bottles, bowls, flowers and landscapes. Until 10.09.17
Pushkin State Musem of Fine Arts. European and American Art  
Nick Brandt: Inherit the Dust
The Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow presents ‘Inherit the Dust’, a new project by the celebrated British photographer Nick Brandt. Nick Brandt was born and raised in London. After studying painting and cinematography at St. Martin’s School of Art he made a successful career as a director of music videos. In the early 90s he moved to the USA, where he worked with Michael Jackson and Moby. Nick Brandt first visited Tanzania in 1995, while filming a clip for Jackson’s ‘Earth Song’, which is dedicated to protection of the environment. That trip radically changed Brandt’s life: he fell in love with the natural world of Africa and decided to devote himself to photography. "Few photographers have ever considered the photography of wild animals as an art form," explains Nick Brandt. "The emphasis has generally been on capturing the drama of wild animals in action, on capturing that dramatic single moment, as opposed to simply animals in the state of being... My aim is for the images to go beyond the animal documentary genre and reach the arena of fine art photography. To achieve this I eschew action shots and, most importantly, the use of a telephoto lens. Instead I move in close, often taking photos from a few feet away." The first series of photographs created by Nick Brandt in East Africa in 2000 attracted public attention to his work and to the important issues he raises. Solo exhibitions of Brandt’s images in London, New York, Los Angeles, Sydney, Melbourne and San Francisco from 2004 to 2006 have been highly acclaimed. Until 03.09.17
Multimedia Art Museum 
Panticapaeum and Phanagoria. The Two Capitals of the Bosporan Kingdom
2017 marks the 90th anniversary of archaeological activities of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in the Eastern Crimea and the Taman Peninsula. The exhibition “Panticapaeum and Phanagoria. The Two Capitals of the Bosporan Kingdom” is organized to celebrate this milestone year. Pushkin State Museum archaeologists started their research at the site of the ancient settlement of Phanagoria in 1927. In 1936 a permanent Phanagorian archaeological expedition was established jointly with the State Historical Museum, and in 1945 the Pushkin State Museum founded a Bosporan (Panticapaeum) expedition. Currently the Pushkin Museum field team works in Panticapaeum (led by V.P. Tolstikov, the Head of the Department of Ancient Art and Archeology) and the field team of Archeology Institute of RAS works in Phanagoria (led by V.D. Kuznetsov, Dr. hist., Director of the State Historical Archaeological Museum Reserve “Phanagoria”). In the exhibition you will discover the history and culture of Panticapaeum and Phanagoria, the two most important cities of the Bosporan Kingdom in the territory of present-day Russian Federation. In the few recent years the Pushkin Museum experts provided the evidence that Panticapaeum was founded in the end of 7th century B.C., and other nations of Lesser Asia besides Greek colonists, specifically Phrygians and Lydians, took part in formation of the ancient city. Until 17.09.17
Pushkin Fine Arts Museum 
Philippe Chancel. Rebels’ Paris 1982
Over the past twenty years Philippe Chancel’s photography has explored the complex, shifting and fertile territory where art, documentaries and journalism meet. His is a constantly evolving project, focusing on the status of images when they are confronted with what constitutes “images” in the contemporary world. Born in 1959, Philippe Chancel now works and lives in Paris. He was introduced to photography at a very young age, took an economics degree at the University of Paris (Nanterre) followed by a post-graduate diploma in journalism in Paris. Philippe Chancel’s work has been widely exhibited and published in France and abroad in a number of prestigious publications. These include "Regards d’artistes" – portraits of contemporary artists, "Souvenirs" – a series of portraits of great capital cities (Paris, London, New York, Tokyo, Brussels) glimpsed through shop windows - produced in collaboration with Valérie Weill, and, lastly, his North Korean project, which brought him international recognition. Philippe Chancel is currently working on a new long-term project entitled « Datazone » that aims to explore the many-faceted aftermaths within the documentary field, revealing some of the world’s most singular lands which are recurrently in the news or, conversely, hardly ever picked up by the media radar. This visionary quest has already taken him from Port au Prince to Kabul via Fukushima, Niger's delta, Pyongyang or Astana. His work is included in many permanent public collections as well as private collections. Untill 26.11.17
Moscow Museum of Modern Art  
Sveonum Monumenta Vetusta
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts presents the exhibition dedicated to one of the best and the oldest parts of the numismatic collection of the Pushkin State Museum – the Swedish numismatic collection – as well as to its famous owners and contributors. Elias Brenner (1647–1717) was a Swedish miniature painter, scholar, founder of Scandinavian numismatics, and one of the earliest experts in the medieval coin history. He is the author of the first treatise on the history of a country framed in the narrative of coins and medals. He wrote his main work “Thesaurus Nummorum Sveo-Gothicorum” about his own collection of coins to encyclopedize Swedish numismatic artifacts and to explore the history of Sweden through the prism of coins and medals. Pavel Grigorievich Demidov (1738–1821) was a member of a famous noble family of industrialists. He was a scientist, benefactor, founder of the Demidov’s College in Yaroslavl. The State Yaroslavl University now bears his name. Thanks to Pavel Demidov the large part of Brenner’s numismatic collection was retained and replenished. In 1803–1806, Pavel Demidov donated his collection to the Coin Cabinet of the Moscow University, which later was moved to the reopened Alexander III Museum of Fine Arts (nowadays, the Pushkin State Museum), and now it constitutes the core of the Museum’s numismatic collection. In the Coin Cabinet of the Moscow University, they did not seem to take good care of the collection, as the items got mixed up and lost their attributions, moreover, few thousands new items were added to the collection during the 19th century. The exhibition is unique because it is based on a fundamental research effort on studying the history and attribution of the coins and medals from the collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. The curator of the exhibition managed to track down the history of the famous Brenner’s collection and glean the valuable information about its owners. The research team of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts spent ten years studying the Museum’s numismatic collection and identified 453 items from Pavel Demidov’s collection, in which 175 coins and 54 medals originated from the collection of Elias Brenner. Until 22.10.17
Pushkin Fine Arts Museum 
Unifying Energy of the Atom. Russia and France
On the 25th Anniversary of Rosenergoatom Concern. Rosenergoatom, one of the largest electric power companies in the world, celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2017, and for twenty-three of those years the concern has been in close cooperation with French giant Électricité de France (EDF) in literally all aspects of nuclear power unit operations: from personnel work to the organisation of efficacious purchases, from engineering and utilisation support to nuclear risks and insurance, ensuring the safe use of atomic energy in the 21st century. As part of the celebrations for Rosenergoatom’s 25th jubilee the idea arose of creating a grandiose photo project able to reflect the scale of activity demonstrated by these leaders in the sphere of energy production. Twenty-five French and five Russian photographers were invited to participate in the project "Unifying Energy of the Atom. Russia and France".The French part of the exhibition presents a series of photo reportages about the work of the largest and most modern French nuclear power plants, and also about the people who daily monitor vitally important systems at these power plants, who carry out planned repairs or modernisation of equipment and train the company personnel. Until 10.09.17
Multimedia Art Museum 
Vladimir Bogdanov: Retrospective
Within the framework of the "Classics of Russian Photography" program, MAMM presents the first large-scale retrospective of the outstanding contemporary photographer Vladimir Bogdanov. The exposition includes more than 100 photos from the collection of the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, created by Bogdanov in the 1960-1990s. Vladimir Bogdanov was born in 1937. The beginning of his creative activity coincided with the Khrushchev "thaw". For the first time in a long period, artists, writers, poets, photographers have the opportunity to move away from the canons of socialist realism in order to tell the stories of the most ordinary people. Humanism replaces officialdom and pathos. Photography becomes a mass passion. In the mid-1950s, many photo clubs were opened one after the other at clubs and cultural centers. In 1955, while still a student at the Textile Institute, Vladimir Bogdanov entered one of the first associations of amateur photographers at the Vyborg Palace of Culture - the Leningrad photo club VDK. His favorite hobby became his profession. A few years later his photos begin to publish the newspapers "Smena" and "Leningradskaya Pravda". Later - already in Moscow - Bogdanov began to cooperate with "Komsomolskaya Pravda", "Soviet Russia" and "Literaturnaya Gazeta", in which he worked for more than twenty years. Until 10.09.17
Multimedia Art Museum 
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