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Arts Calendar / October 4 / 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  
Cai Guo-Qiang: October
the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts will present leading international contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s first solo exhibition in Russia: Cai Guo-Qiang: October. A reflection on the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the ambitious body of work originally created for the exhibition will transform the main exhibition areas of the museum. Artworks include large-scale outdoor and indoor installations, gunpowder paintings, a multi-media video installation, and small-scale sculptures and sketches. Upon entering the courtyard, visitors are greeted by a grandiose outdoor installation on the central staircase leading to the entrance of the museum, titled Autumn. A man-made mountain composed of birch trees and hundreds of baby cradles donated by Moscow residents, towers over the visitors and offers an astounding visual impression. For some, it will evoke a famous scene from Battleship Potemkin (1925) by Sergei Eisenstein. For the first time in the museum’s history, a massive installation will be incorporated with the architecture of the second-floor White Hall. Cai Guo-Qiang was born in 1957 in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China. From 1981 to 1985, he studied stage design at the Shanghai Theater Academy. His artistic expression spans multiple mediums including painting, installation, video, and performance. While living in Japan from 1986 to 1995, he explored the properties of gunpowder in his drawings, an inquiry that eventually led to his experimentation with explosives on a massive scale and to the development of his signature explosion events. Drawing upon Eastern philosophy and contemporary social issues as a conceptual basis, these projects and events aim to establish an exchange between viewers and the larger universe around them, utilizing a site-specific approach to culture and history. Until 12.11.17
Pushkin Fine Arts Museum 
Constantin Brancusi: Sculptures, Drawings, Photographs, Films
Within the framework of the parallel program of the 7th Moscow International Biennial of Modern Art, the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, will be showing for the first time in Russian an exhibition of works by Constantin Brancusi, one of the most influential and renowned sculptors of the 20th century. The exhibition at MAMM is a first attempt to show the Brancusi phenomenon in in its full breadth. The exhibition reflects all aspects of this great artist’s work: sculptures, drawings, photographs and films. Ezra Pound, a close friend of the artist’s, noted that Brancusi’s works possess a cumulative effect, allowing him to create an entire world of forms that must be viewed as a whole as it creates a system and an entire vision. Constantin Brancusi’s studio, which he bequeathed to France on the condition that the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris / the Pompidou Center would preserve it in its original form, was a multimedia space, to use the contemporary terminology. Brancusi was an innovator and an experimenter. In his work he used varied materials, combining wood, stone, bronze and marble in a revolutionary manner. His studio was a veritable ‘alchemist’s laboratory’ in which, using the available media, he searched for the means by which he could best convey his perception of the world. Although undoubtedly fascinated by the very latest media of the day, Brancusi always remained true to himself and his artistic intuition, not recklessly giving in to the photography boom or the general excitement surrounding the new capabilities that cinematography opened up. Constantin Brancusi’s films and photographs are a kind of message to contemporaries and descendants that, first and foremost, informs them of how the artist himself envisaged his sculptures. Until 12.11.17
Multimedia Art Museum 
Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Scrapbook, Photographs 1932-1946
The Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, is continuing its introduction to the work of the great French photographer, one of the founders of the humanist school in photography and the co-founder of the legendary Magnum photography agency, Henri Cartier-Bresson. In 2000, within the framework of the Third Photo-Biennial 2000 Moscow International Month of Photography in Moscow, at the Moscow House of Photography, an exhibition titled ‘Henri Cartier-Bresson. USSR: 1950—1970’ was held with enormous success. Now MAMM is presenting a new exhibition titled ‘Photograph Album by Henri Cartier-Bresson. 1932-1946’, which details the early period in the photographer’s work. Henri Cartier-Bresson was born in 1908 in the town of Chanteloup-en-Brie, not far from Paris. From early childhood he had a great interest in painting and dreamt of becoming an artist. In 1927, Cartier-Bresson enrolled at the renowned private school of the sculptor and cubist artist André Lhote. Paying his dues to his teacher, Henri Cartier-Bresson later recalled that Lhote had infected him with «the virus of geometry» and taught him ‘to photograph without a camera.’ He had to interrupt his studies for service in the army, but Cartier-Bresson didn’t return to Lhote’s studio, deciding that he should independently find his own path in painting. "Photograph Album by Henri Cartier-Bresson" recounts his formation as a photographer, his periods of success and failure, his searches, his doubts, his passion for cinematography and years in captivity during the war. This is a look into the past, a summing up, a necessary pause that would be followed by a powerful leap forward — the formation of Magnum Photos, the most famous photo agency in the world, affiliation with which became synonymous with artistic recognition for many generations of photographers. Until 10.12.17
Multimedia Art Museum 
Mario Giacomelli: Poetry of Landscape
The Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, presents a personal exhibition by the leading Italian photographer Mario Giacomelli (1925–2000), ‘The Poetics of Landscape.’ MAMM first showed the works of Giacomelli within the framework of the Seventh Photo-Biennial International Month of Photography 2009 in Moscow. Mario Giacomelli is one of the few Italian photographers to have received international recognition as early as the 1960s. His works can be found in the collections of the world’s largest museums, including the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Mario Giacomelli was born in Senigallia, on the Adriatic coast of Italy, in 1925. He lost his father early, and at the age of thirteen began working at a printing works. In his spare time, he wrote poetry, painted and took photographs using a camera that he himself assembled. In 1952, he joined the Miza photography group organized by Giuseppe Cavalli, who moved to Senigallia in the post-war years and worked on the active promotion of art in photography in Italy. In 1955, Giacomelli won at the prestigious Castelfranco Veneto National Competition. The most famous specialized Italian magazines, such as Ferrania and Rivista Fotografica Italiana, began to publish his works. In 1957, Giacomelli created a series of shots on the inhabitants of a municipal old people’s home, ‘Verra la morte e avra i tuoi occhi’ (‘Death will come and she will have your eyes’), which was praised by critics and became a notable event in the world of photography. Mario Giacomelli’s way of life was in no way changed by success and fame. Until the very end he remained faithful to Senigallia. He lived side by side with the subjects of his photographic series, unhurriedly telling their stories whilst at the same time telling his own. "Every image is my portrait, it’s as if I’m photographing myself", he admitted. "Photography allows you to leave testimony to the fact that you lived on this Earth, it’s like a notebook". Until 22.10.17
Multimedia Art 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 
Takashi Murakami. Under the Radiation Falls
The exhibition at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art is the first major survey of Takashi Murakami's work in Russia and spans several periods of the artist’s career from the mid-1990s to now. Presenting his work in the broader context of Japanese culture for the first time, the exhibition pays homage to Murakami’s long-term project to creatively unite and question Eastern and Western traditions. Consisting of five sections that each explore a particular phenomenon in Japanese culture which has been formally or semantically examined by Murakami, the show reveals the artist’s inquiries into the nuanced facets of Japanese culture and public consciousness, blurring the line between high and low culture while merging various media into one continuous flow of images. The exhibition at Garage includes more than eighty paintings, drawings (including prints), and films by Murakami from the collections of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; and private collections. The exhibition also includes traditional Japanese engravings and paintings from the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, various artifacts from Murakami's studio, and photographs and examples of manga from Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Until 04.02.18
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art  
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