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| | Arts Calendar / April 4 / Exhibitions |
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| 2017 Pirelli Calendar by Peter Lindbergh and More... |
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 Back in 1964, the Pirelli Calendar was just a bit of eye-candy, kindly provided by the Italian tyre maker to be hung on the walls of car mechanic garages far and wide. Forty-four editions later, and the trade calendar has become a kind of cultural barometer through which societal perceptions of beauty are reflected, examined and contested. The 2017 Pirelli Calendar is a major “statement” against our Photoshop-obsessed culture and a “cry against the terror of perfection”. Hollywood actresses Helen Mirren, Kate Winslet, Uma Thurman, Nicole Kidman, Jessica Chastain, Penelope Cruz, Lupita Nyong’o, Charlotte Rampling, Rooney Mara, Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Lea Seydoux, Robin Wright and Zhang Ziyi star in a series of honest black and white portraits shot by photographer Peter Lindbergh. Following on from Annie Leibovitz’s 2016 calendar, which ditched nude supermodels in favour of “strong but natural” women who have “achieved something”, the new edition also does away with face and body retouching. “The goal of the calendar is to show the real woman,” Lindbergh told The Huffington Post UK. “Not to show the stretched and manipulated, emptied women you see in the magazines today.” Lindbergh called the 2017 calendar a “statement” due to the lack of retouching, and revealed he deliberately chose to shoot actresses who had starred in high fashion and beauty advertisements. “You know these women retouched,” he told HuffPost UK. “It’s more powerful when you see these women how they normally are.” Until 14.05.17
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| Alexander Pavlov. Superheroes: New Chronicle |
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 The photo exhibition Superheroes: New Chronicle, part of the Fashion and Style in Photography 2017 biennale, will help museum goers to contemplate the existence of reality and fantasy. While playing, children enter a rather simple imaginary world that clearly demarcates good and evil and their mutual struggle. Positive characters invented by them embody collective features of heroes from modern animated cartoons and stories. Children play at home, on city streets and outside the city; and they often don’t notice that their fantasies become a reality. Every person has his or her own reality and surrounding universe. The creators of the project want to know whether reality exists. If the answer is indeed “Yes,” then they want to find out what the boundary is between reality and the imaginary world? Exhibition photos narrating this issue resemble a comic-book format.
Multimedia Art Museum |
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| Artist's Model in the Camera Objective |
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 The Artist’s Model through Camera Lens exhibition will be held as part of the 10th Moscow International Biennale “Fashion and Style in Photography 2017” at the State Tretyakov Gallery. Museum goers will be able to view the original photographs of the elegantly dressed models who posed for Ilya Repin, Ivan Kramskoy, Mikhail Nesterov, Valentin Serov, Konstantin Korovin, and Viktor Borisov-Musatov. Those pictures feature people who were sitters for famous paintings of Russian artists. Some shots registered the very moment of modeling, others were made to record outdoor impressions as auxiliary material for later work on canvases. The photographs were made in the second half of the 19th and the early 20th century. The same room will feature both photographs and paintings. The organisers believe that the display will help visitors to better understand how the artistic image took shape. They will be able to gauge the talent and comprehend how photographers and painters saw their models. Until 28.05.17
Tretyakov Gallery at Lavrushinsky Lane |
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| Igor Mukhin: Alternative culture of 80s |
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 "It would seem that we [...] can feel free to forget this incoherent epos, with its endless details that never quite stack together," wrote the music critic Felix Sandalov of Mukhin’s photographs. "Yet we are compelled to return to the tapes of their songs, the reels of photographs, seeking the vague outline of we know not what, straining our eyes and listening intently in the search for our own identity." Temporal distance nonetheless changes the optics. Many luminaries of that epoch are no longer with us and many have changed with the changing times. Rock music of the 1980s is already subject to museification, while its leaders have acquired the monumental features of legendary heroes. Today the opposing elements of those years seem very close to us, yet equally distant. The wind of change so anticipated in the 1980s has risen in the air and intermingled the fragments of a passing era, the expectations and hopes for something better. But the memories, dreams and forebodings re-evoked when we look at these photos still remain. As part of the 10th Moscow International Biennale "Fashion and Style in Photography 2017", MAMM showcases an exhibition by the outstanding contemporary photographer Igor Mukhin. Many of his images have now become iconic. While continuing to work on new projects, Mukhin is a teacher at the A. Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia, where he instructs a remarkable new generation of photographers who also feature in the Biennale. Mukhin’s exhibition returns us to the onset of his creative career for one of the central themes in the Biennale, "The Wind of Time". Until 09.04.17
Multimedia Art Museum |
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| Irina Korina. The Tail Wags the Comet |
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 Irina Korina has produced a three-story architectural intervention for Garage Atrium space that physically and ideologically transports audiences into different surroundings. Opened in conjunction with the first Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art, the Atrium Commission explores the contradictions, humor, and pathos of national and cultural identity. In describing the concept of The Tail Wags the Comet—the largest work the artist has made to date—Korina says: “It is about the frustration of longing for something you will never see or achieve and the notion of a desired future that is met with nothing but mundane reality.” Irina Korina (b. 1977, Moscow) graduated in stage design from the Russian Academy of Theater Arts (GITIS) in 2000. She also attended a course in New Artistic Strategies at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow (2000), as well as at the Valand Academy of Fine Arts in Gothenburg (2000) and the Academy of Arts in Vienna (2005). Until 06.08.17. Read more
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art |
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| Michel Sima: Genius in the Studio and Behind the Paris Art Scene |
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 As part of the Tenth Moscow International Biennale "Fashion and Style in Photography 2017", MAMM presents an exhibition by renowned French photographer and sculptor Michel Sima (real name Michał Smajewski) — ‘Genius in the Studio’ from the Kuno Fischer Collection, Galerie Fischer, Switzerland. Photography was more a hobby than a profession for Sima, who regarded himself primarily as a sculptor. Yet it was photography that brought him international recognition. In the course of 10 years he portrayed artist friends such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Francis Picabia, Ossip Zadkine, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Cocteau, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, André Derain, Le Corbusier, Marc Chagall, Joan Miró, and many others. He was also indebted to this friendship with artists for his assumed name. The idea for his pseudonym was an anagram first suggested by Paul Éluard: SIMA is AMIS (friends) spelt backwards. The artist and his oeuvre was the theme that most fascinated Michel Sima as photographer. In all his images Sima pictured artists at work in their studios. But this was not purely a record of various stages of the artistic process. His amicable relations with the subjects and the trust that prevailed in every location enabled him to produce unique images that show subtle nuances of each character’s personality, and to convey an unrepeatable creative aura. Each artist posing among his works in the congenial surroundings of his own studio apparently reveals his identity to the viewer. Jean Cocteau wrote in his preface to Michel Sima’s "21 Visages d’Artistes", the photo album dedicated to the legendary École de Paris and published in 1959: "My dear Sima, you had the commendable idea of capturing the faces of artists as if in flight — the excited faces of artists in combat with the monsters they themselves engendered, the riders of the Apocalypse that drive us into a labyrinth where we are seized by the wild, ambiguous desire to at least see the Minotaur, if not actually encounter it". "What he reveals is something you will find nowhere else: brotherly unity, a striking, remarkable mutual affinity between photographer and model" (Michel Sima’s close friend Jean-Luc Meysonnier). Until 09.05.17
Multimedia Art Museum |
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| Philippe Chancel. Rebels’ Paris 1982 |
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 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 |
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| The Masterpieces of Byzantine |
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 The Masterpieces of Byzantine art of XII-XV centuries from Greece. Byzantine civilization is one of the most exciting and unique in world history. Byzantine art gave the impetus for the development of ancient Russian culture. In recent years, major foreign museums such as the Metropolitan and the Louvre, hosted large-scale exhibitions of Byzantine art with great success. This year, the Hermitage introduces the Byzantine culture to the viewers. The exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery will be the first to present the renowned masterpieces of Byzantine art to Moscow public. For the exhibition in the Tretyakov Gallery, the major Greek museums such as the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens, the Benaki Museum, the Byzantine Museum in Thessaloniki, as well as church museums, present their treasures: icons, applied art works and manuscripts, among them the "Raising of Lazarus", "Virgin and Child" and "John the Baptist Angel of the desert" and a censer depicting martyrs Theodore and Demetrius, embroidered cover on the Blessed Sacrament, and two Code - Gospel XIII and the beginning of the XIV century. The exhibition will be held in the framework of cross Year Russia - Greece earlier in Athens presented a unique exhibition of Russian icons of XV-XIX century. Russia has already hosted a number of exhibitions of Greek meetings - in particular, in the Historical Museum show "Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece", and in the Hermitage "Byzantium through the centuries." Until 09.04.17
Tretyakov Gallery at Lavrushinsky Lane |
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 This is a large-scale culture history exhibition project dedicated to one period of Russian national history which is traditionally labelled by scholars as the “Thaw.” The mission of this exhibition is to show not only the achievements of that period, but also its challenges and conflicts. The display includes works of painters, sculptors, and movie directors who were witnesses and agents of decisive transformations in the most important spheres of the lives of the Soviet people. Their opinions are controversial, which makes the exhibition all the more versatile. The exhibition area is designed around a few thematic sections, such as “Talking with Father,” “The Best City on Earth,” “International Relations,” “The New Ways of Life,” “Exploration,” “Atom — Space,” “Towards the Communism!” A variety of artifacts will be integrated into the expo space, such as painted and graphic works, sculptures, household items, samples of designs, video projections with footage from feature films and documentaries. Participants: the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the Institute of the Russian Realistic Art, Russia’s museum and private collections. Until 11.06.17
Tretyakov Gallery at Krymsky Val |
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| Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art |
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 Presenting works made by more than 60 artists from across the country, Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art captures the zeitgeist of some of the most active and influential creative figures of the past five years, offering insight into the diversity of social tendencies that constitute the underexplored Russian art scene. A curatorial team of six members of Garage Program Department traveled through the country's eight federal districts, visiting more than 40 cities and towns, crossing eleven time zones, in climates that range from the subtropical to subarctic. Working with Garage’s regional network of specialists in each local context, the Triennial curators met with over 200 artists, ranging from 19 to 69 years of age. From this research, they identified seven vectors — Master Figure, Personal Mythologies, Fidelity to Place, Common Language, Art in Action, Street Morphology, and Local Histories of Art—through which the current art life of the country can be broadly understood. Until 14.05.17. Read more
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| Ugo Rondinone. your age and my age and the age of the rainbow |
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 The artist’s first project in Russia consists of two interconnected pieces: an installation in front of the Museum, and an object on its rooftop. In Garage Square, visitors find a one-hundred-meter-long fence supporting thousands of images of rainbows painted on wood panels by kids with various disabilities from all over the country. Garage Rooftop also hosts a ten-meter-long rainbow that spells out OUR MAGIC HOUR. This message celebrates the inauguration of the first Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art, which is taking place simultaneously inside the Museum. Fifteen hundred panels of different sizes, from 40 x 30 cm to 125 x 80 cm, are displayed on the front and back of the fence. Rondinone has realized a number of communal works, but this is his largest and longest rainbow fence to date. Unlike the previous ones, it is the first to be exhibited outside a museum, accessible to park visitors. Until 21.05.17. Read more
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art |
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| Yasumasa Morimura. The History of the Self-Portrait |
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 The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts presents a solo exhibition of the contemporary Japanese artist Yasumasa Morimura. The show is dedicated to the history of self-portrait in the world art. The display will present over 80 pieces from the collection of The National Museum of Art (Osaka), Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo), The National Museum of Modern Art (Kyoto), and from the collection of the artist. The exhibition consist of several sections: the first one entitled “When I Didn’t Know Anything about Art History” includes photographs from the artist’s personal archive, two early pieces of 1985 – “Portrait. Van Gogh” and “Portrait. Camille Roulin”, and a large-scale multi-figured composition “A Sympósion on Self-Portraits” representing many characters of his transformations. The second section called “Self-Portraits through Art History” displays works created in 2016: portraits of Leonardo da Vinci, Dürer, van Eyck, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Courbet, Böcklin, Ensor, van Gogh, Rousseau, Magritte, and Dalí. Along with the artistic interpretation of the characters, the titles given by the artist are a fundamental part of the creative idea. The section “An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo” is entirely dedicated to the Mexican artist. Another room will be exploring “Las Meninas” – a painting by Diego Velasquez, renowned Spanish artist of the 17th century. In the “The 20th Century – An Age of Self-Portraits” section the viewers will see original interpretations of works by Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, and Cindy Sherman. Yasumasa Morimura was born in Osaka (Japan) in 1951. He entered the international art scene in the early 1980s. In his first photographic works, he transformed himself into personalities of contemporary pop culture and artists of various periods. Morimura acts as both model and concept creator. During his career, he has invented over 300 different characters. Today, Yasumasa Morimura is considered the most well-known Japanese artist working with the appropriation genre. Until 09.04.17
Pushkin State Musem of Fine Arts. European and American Art |
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