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| | Arts Calendar / July 30 / Exhibitions |
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100 Years of Performance, curated by Klaus Biesenbach, PS1 Chief Curatorial Advisor and MoMA Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art, and RoseLee Goldberg, Director and Curator of Performa, will trace the development of performance art over the past century with a wealth of assembled archival documents, photography, film, and audio materials, culminating in a performance festival starting from the Futurist Manifesto in 1909 until the present day. The exhibition features works by Yayoi Kusama, Yoko "Ono’s Cut Piece" (1965); Francis Alys’ "When Faith Moves Mountains" (2002); Matthew Barney’s "Drawing Restraint" (2005).
Centre for Contemporary Culture "Garage"  |
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| AES+F: The Feast of Trimalchio |
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 The world premiere of "The Feast of Trimalchio", the new series by AES+F - a luxurious exhibition will include a monumental 9-channel video installation and a series of large-scale digital ‘paintings’. "The Feast of Trimalchio" is an interpretation of the best-preserved part of the witty but melancholy fiction "Satyricon" by Gaius Petronius Arbiter, the great Roman poet of Nero’s reign. This captivating exhibition will envelop visitors in a temporary hotel paradise, where they can enjoy the excesses of wealth, luxury and gluttony. The artists have created their beautiful visual feast with the glamour of a advertising campaign for a luxury brand. The people who inhabit this tropical and exotic hotel are either ‘masters’ or ‘servants’. AES+F is a collective of four Russian artists, Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich, Evgeny Svyatsky and Vladimir Fridkes, who work with photography, video, sculpture and mixed media. The group is known for its masterful manipulation of the fashion and advertising idiom which, when combined with a deep appreciation of the history of art, produces slick yet complex and challenging narratives.
Centre for Contemporary Culture "Garage" |
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| Alexander Exter: Retrospective |
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Alexandra Exter is strongly associated with such principle Russian art trend as cubofuturism – a completely "Russian" version of futurism fulfilled in numerous abstract compositions, still lives and urban landscapes. It was Exter who enthusiastically popularized new ideas in Russian painting and for many years exposed Russian audience to the latest achievements of Paris avant-garde. Being a regular long-term Paris guest and a friend of such prominent artists as Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Guillaume Apollinaire and other influential figures of that epoch, Exter promoted their creative works in Russia. And she went even further than promoting – with her own paintings she demonstrated how Russian artists could adapt Paris innovations to their own works. Alexandra Exter is also part and parcel of Russian theatre triumphs: the Moscow Chamber Theatre plays she decorated went down in history as true masterpieces marked with fascinating beauty of costumes and scenery. Moscow Museum of Modern Art's project is the first Alexandra Exter's retrospective covering creative inventions by this leading exponent of Russian avant-garde. The exposition features easel paintings, graphics, costume and scenery sketches as well as unique never-exhibited manuscript books. Read more
Moscow Museum of Modern Art |
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Tretyakov Gallery welcomes "All the World's a Stage" exhibition covering the famous Russian avant-garde artists Mikhail Larionov's collection of printed graphics. Mikhail Larionov and his wife left Russia in 1915, joint the then touring in Europe Dyagilev ballet troupe as a costume and scenery designers and stayed in Paris. The exhibition features about 300 works – just a tiny part of Larionov's vast collection of some 10,000 items. M.Larionov had quite an eclectic taste in collecting: he collected Jacques Callot and Kitagawa Utamaro's works, magazine lithographs and xylographs of the late 19th century, theatre posters (circus posters, cinema posters, etc) of the late 18th-early 20th centuries, oleographs, heliogravures, illustrations from the hand-to-hand textbooks, to name a few.
Tretyakov Art Gallery |
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| Annette Messager: Fictions, Temptations, Manipulations (France) |
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Among the generation of women-painters, who made the contemporary art history by reaching an equal footing with their male colleagues, Annette Messager is an icon. Before the 1970s women could join the artistic world only as partners, muses and models. Annette revolutionized this artistic world though now she says: “We must stop speaking about “female” or “male” art. Only art by itself is worthy of discussion.” Annette was awarded with the Grand Prize of the Venice Biennale 2005 - the Golden Lion - for her installation “Casino”. This exhibition features objects, created by Annette Messager in the 1970s, at the very beginning of her artistic career. These installations, which consist of numerous photographs, as well as objects and paintings, have been collected as series illustrating the stereotypes world characteristic of 20-century women. This project also includes monumental and theatrical works of the 1980s and 1990s, as well as various mechanical installations. In addition to these works, Messange is to make a new installation especially for the Moscow exhibition.
Ekaterina Cultural Fund |
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| Carsten Holler: Giant Triple Mushrooms (Germany) |
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 Carsten Holler's five Giant Triple Mushrooms are 3-dimensional collages of enlarged replicas of mushrooms occurring wild in Eurasia, they vary in size from 1 meter to 2.6 meters. Half of their composition is created from a fly-agaric mushroom, (Amanita muscaria), which is poisonous and psychoactive, the other half is composed of two randomly chosen mushrooms. The six month installation will mark the beginning of a twice-yearly series of contemporary works to be exhibited within our Entrance Space. Carsten Holler has realized several works with the fly-agaric mushroom, including the Mushroom Suitcase series and the Upside Down Mushroom Room (2000), which was shown in 2005 at MOCA in Los Angeles. Carsten's works have been shown internationally over the last two decades, including solo exhibitions at Fondazione Prada, Milan (2000), the ICA Boston (2003), Musee d'Art Contemporain, Marseille (2004), MASS MoCA, (2006), and Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2008). In 2006, he conceived the giant slide instalation Test Site at the Turbine Hall in London’s Tate Modern, and represented Sweden at the 51st Biennale di Venezia.
Centre for Contemporary Culture "Garage" |
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| Five Rings under the Kremlin Stars |
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Federal Archives presents the exhibition "Five Rings under the Kremlin Stars" timed to the 30th anniversary of the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980. The exhibition features lots of formerly classified documents, directives and orders showing all behind-the-scenes activities during the Olympic Games. Besides the exhibition features lots of souvenir-like items: sport suits of the Soviet national team, the menu of the Olympic village cafe, medals, invitations, tickets, badges, and of course, Misha the bear, Olympic mascot of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow.
Federal Archives Showroom |
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| Francesco Vezzoli (Italy) |
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The exhibition will document Francesco Vezzoli's highly visual performance which took references from "Le Bal" (1935), the only one of the Ballet Russes ever to be designed by Balanchine in collaboration with the Italian artist, the surrealist Giorgio de Chirico. Vezzoli collaborated to conceive every detail of the interior space, the piano-art work by Damien Hirst and the costumes by Miuccia Prada to create a ‘living, breathing artwork’. The work included an elaborate combination different genres of video, petit-point embroidery, photography and live performance.
Centre for Contemporary Culture "Garage" |
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Pushkin Fine Arts Museum presents 60 masterpieces of European painting from the collections of the the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. Among the pictures are works by Raphael, Giorgione, Tiziano, Veronese, Tintoretto, Durer, Velazquez, Ribera, El Greco, Goya, Claude Lorrain, Murillo, Jordaens, Rubens, Ruysdael, Rembrandt, Jan Bruegel, Greuze, Fouche and other outstanding artists.
Pushkin Fine Arts Museum |
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| Mark Rothko: Into an Unknown World |
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Center for Contemporary Culture "Garage" welcomes the first personal exhibition of one of the world's best artists Mark Rothko. The exhibition features the largest collection of the artist's works culled from the private collections. "Into an Unknown World" presents more than 12 Rothko's paintings covering 20 years of his creative career (1949-1969), including the world-wide famous picture "No 12" (1954) as well as sketches of such famous Rothko's projects as frescos for the Seagram Building (New-York) and St. Thomas University chapel (Houston). Besides one of the latest Rothko's works in grey and black colours made in 1969 will be demonstrated. Mark Rothko immigrated from Russia to USA in 1913. In 1921-1931 he studied painting at Yale University. In 1969, he was conferred the Doctor of Fine Arts (D.F.A.) degree (Yale University). Mark Rothko's works are exhibited at numerous museums and are found in many private collections around the world. The major Rothko's retrospectives took place in 1983 at the National Gallery of Arts (Washington) and three years earlier at Whitney Museum of American Art (New-York), Museum of Modern Art (Paris), Tate Gallery (London), Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art (Japan) and three other Japanese museums.
Centre for Contemporary Culture "Garage" |
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| Masterpieces of the 20th Century |
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The Moscow Museum of Modern Art opens its doors to the exhibition, Masterpieces of the 20th Century, from the Collection of the Valencia Institute of Modern Art, IVAM - the first museum of modern art in Spain. The exhibition is composed of an extensive and select set of works from the Valencian Institute of IVAM and has the objective of bringing to the public the best pieces in their collection. The show is composed of a selection of the avant-garde of the first decades of the 20th century and of all art tendencies of the postwar period. It is set up so that a visitor who may not necessarily be a specialist, may recreate, through many of its most outstanding protagonists, the adventure of art in the twentieth century. The exhibition opens with Julio Gonzalez’s oeuvre together with the works by Torres Garcia, a Uruguayan artist of the early 20th century and continues with kinetic sculptures by Alexander Calder, installations by Kurt Schwitters and Man Ray, abstract works by Frantisek Kupka and works by classic Surrealist and Dadaist masters Joan Miro, Marcel Duchamp, Andr? Masson and Jean Arp. There are works by European masters such as Antoni Tapies, Antonio Saura, Karel Appel, Ad Reinhardt, Pierre Soulages, and works by celebrated American artists, such as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Richard Serra. Works by American Pop-art artists, such as Richard Hamilton, James Rosenquist and European representatives of this approach, such as Eduardo Arroyo, Equipo Cronica group and others will also be exhibited.
Moscow Museum of Modern Art |
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| Moscow Biennale for Young Art |
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"Qui vive?" Moscow Biennale for Young Art is one of the largest and ambitious projects, realized on the Moscow art scene in the field of contemporary art at present. The Biennale unites artistic initiatives of the whole Russia, the countries of near and far abroad. Leading art centers of Moscow in collaboration with regional and international partners take part in its preparation and realization. The key criteria for participant selection are not only age, but also in many cases phase. The matter concerns the spirit, the pathos of the young art, creative passion, bold experiments in search of new vision and method. We say "Stop!" to the young authors, asking them to stop their Brownian motion for a minute and to reflect upon where it is going, asking them to articulate their creative and conceptual positions. To stop and to formulate who, strictly speaking, and where is moving.
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| Pompeii. Mysteries of Buried City |
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Naples National Archaeological Museum presents a vast collection of the first common-era century antiquities illustrating different life aspects of Pompeii citizens. Among the items are frescos, jewellery, sculptures, toilet-ware, furniture items, and tableware made of plaster, precious stones and metals, bronze, marble, gypsum and other materials. Altogether the exhibition features 115 items found at excavations in Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae, Boscoreale destroyed on August 24, 79 CE by Vesuvius eruption.
Historical 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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| Soviet Photography Art of 1960-170s |
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 The "Soviet Photography Art of 1960-170s" exhibition features more than 350 photographs by 70 photographers basically by Moscow photographers formerly employed by some leading information agencies: Itar Tass, APN, RIA Novosti; but geography was not the point to be guided by in selection of the artists. Only an extremely high level of professionalism and quality of works were taken into account. High standards set by the leaders, vast experience, prestigious exhibitions including the international ones stimulated them to be better then just good in taking pictures, to be the best of the best. The 1960s in USSR were the time of hope, general feeling of freedom, experiments and innovations. A human being with his/her personal feelings, emotions and worries was for the first time paid attention to by the photographers. They strove for real reportage, refusing from staging, theatrics, false optimism featured in the photographs of that period.
Lumiere Gallery |
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| Synaxis: Collection of Greek Icon Painting |
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"Synaxis: Collection of Greek Icon Painting on Wood and Paper: 1450-2000" is a unique retrospective of the Orthodox art of the XV-XX centuries resulted from the long-term collaboration of Pushkin Fine Arts Museum with other museums and private collectors of Greece. The word of Greek origin "synaxis" featured in the title can be translated as a meeting of believers aimed at spiritual improvement by singing psalms and reading the Holy Writ. The exhibition features icons from Emilios Velimezis' collection host by the Benakis Museum in Athens and "Alexander S. Onassis" Public Fund; contours (the so-called "prorisi" - outlined icons), sketches and other works of icon painting by the famous Greek artists from 1450 to the present time from the collections of Christos and Emilios Margaritis and Alexandros Makris; three rare icons from the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum funds and the XV-century icon "Pantocrator" (the only Cretan icon from Georgios Kostakis' collection). Altogether the exhibition features 130 works.
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| Treasures of Ottoman Sultans |
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Collection of selected items of the Ottoman Sultans. More than one hundred items include stamps and personal belongings, items of palace ceremonials and household items: parade headpieces, swords, gowns covered with precious stone, old Koran manuscripts, miniatures and manuscripts, vessels and jewelry. All the items are culled from Topkapı Palace. The exhibition is located in the Patriarch's Palace, Kremlin.
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