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Arts Calendar / July 4 / Exhibitions
Congo Art Works: Popular Painting
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art presents Congo Art Works: Popular Painting, a survey of Congolese art over the last fifty years, developed by the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA), Tervuren in collaboration with BOZAR, Brussels. Six years after showing Carsten Holler and Jean Pigozzi’s acclaimed overview of art from two important and wildly different cultures—JapanCongo—Garage revisits the Democratic Republic of Congo, a former Belgian colony that has become a hotbed of contemporary artistic production. This time, the angle is quite different: paintings by prominent Congolese artists are presented not as exotic objects, but as depictions of everyday reality which aim to make sense of the country’s present and its history. Congo Art Works: Popular Painting draws from the collection of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) and tells the story of art in the Mobutu Sese Seko era and beyond. The exhibition is curated by Bambi Ceuppens of RMCA and Congolese artist Sammy Baloji, who places his compatriots’ works within a dense net of colonial memories, personal documents, and hard facts. Congo Art Works: Popular Painting is, in many ways, a continuation of Baloji’s investigation of the history of his home country that has developed through research, installations, and curatorial projects since 2006. Until 13.08.17
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art  
Giorgio de Chirico. Metaphysical Insights Exhibition
The Tretyakov Gallery presents Russia’s first major exhibition of paintings by the Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico, one of the leading 20th century masters and founder of the Metaphysical Art movement. The Treatyakov Gallery project reveals all sides of Giorgio de Chirico’s creativity – classical metaphysical, post-metaphysical, interpretation of antique and mythological plots, turning to old masters’ works, and many more. The painter’s creation has been presented comprehensively giving visitors a chance to contemplate his impact on European and Russian painters. On display will be paintings, etchings, sculptures and theatre costumes the master designed for Sergei Dyagilev’s private ballet performance of The Ball, 1929. The exhibition will feature a unique publication on Giorgio de Chirico’s creativity, which will be complemented by the exhibition’s curator Tatyana Goryacheva’s article about the painter’s influence on Russian art and articles by Italian experts. Until 23.07.17
Tretyakov Gallery at Krymsky Val 
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  
Irina Korina. The Tail Wags the Comet
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  
Jeanloup Sieff: Master of High Style
As part of the 10th Moscow International Biennale of Fashion and Style in Photography 2017, MAMM presents "Master of High Style", an exhibition of images by legendary photographer Jeanloup Sieff (1933 — 2000). The Moscow House of Photography Museum introduced the Moscow public to the maestro’s work at the Photobiennale 98, whose central theme was "Fashion and Style in Photography". The exposition is comprised of 67 images dating from 1952 to 2000. On show are portraits of film stars, great directors, musicians, couturiers, artists, photographers, dancers and models: Catherine Deneuve, Mia Farrow, Charlotte Rampling, Alfred Hitchcock, François Truffaut, Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, Yves Saint Laurent, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Robert Doisneau, Carolyn Carlson, Sylvie Guillem, Twiggy and many others, as well as Jeanloup Sieff’s shoots for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, which have today become classics of world fashion photography. Jeanloup Sieff’s work features in the collections of major museums worldwide, including the Centre Pompidou and Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. In a career that lasted almost half a century Jeanloup Sieff received several prestigious photography awards such as the Prix Niépce (1959) and Grand Prix National de la Photographie (1992), and in 1981 the French state appointed him as a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres. Jeanloup Sieff believed that a photographer must have the ability to stay young, adventurous and inquisitive. He referred to his friends and colleagues Henri Cartier-Bresson and Jacques Henri Lartigue, who were active late in life, as ‘young photographers’, emphasising that state of mind is the driving force and age itself is unimportant. Until 06.08.17
Multimedia Art Museum 
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  
Renaissance Venice: Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts proudly presents a large-scale project of exceptional significance – “Renaissance Venice. Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese. From Italian and Russian collections”, exhibiting 25 outstanding works by three of the greatest painters. These works will be brought to Moscow for the first time, and some of them have never been displayed outside of Italy. During the Renaissance, Venice experienced the golden age of art and, first and foremost, painting. In the 16th century, a triad of great masters of the brush – Titian Vecellio (c. 1490–1576), Jacopo Tintoretto (1518–1594) and Paolo Veronese (1528–1588) – created their famous paintings in this city. These artists played a defining role in the formation of the European artistic culture and rendered an important influence on the development of art over the next centuries. This exhibition provides a unique opportunity to see works of these great contemporaries side by side, whose creations revolutionized the concepts of painting in many ways and laid the foundation for painting throughout Europe. Many great masters of the 17th century, including Velazquez, Rubens, Rembrandt and Poussin, learned from Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese. Until 20.08.17
Pushkin Fine Arts Museum 
Sarah Moon: From a Season to Another
As part of the Tenth Moscow International Biennale of Fashion and Style in Photography 2017, MAMM presents "From a Season to Another", an exhibition by luminary of French and world art, the photographer Sarah Moon. The Moscow House of Photography Museum first staged a retrospective exhibition by Sarah Moon for the Photobiennale 98, and ever since she has been a regular participant at festivals organised by the museum. Sarah Moon’s solo exhibitions have been acclaimed worldwide, in Paris, Arles, London, New York, Hamburg, Stockholm, Prague, Tokyo, Kyoto and Moscow, and her art films have received prestigious awards at film festivals. Sarah Moon is the author of documentary films about the great Henri Cartier-Bresson and legendary publisher Robert Delpire. Sarah Moon claims that cinema inspired her to become an artist. "If you dig very deep, then for me the pioneer of the power of the image and visual picture was Sergei Eisenstein. All his films influenced me and made a significant contribution before I discovered photography for myself..." The essence of the photographer’s work, according to Sarah Moon, is to articulate the story behind the actual shot. Moon shows equal expertise in black and white photographs, admitting that she likes the distance guaranteed by a monochrome image, and in her colour portfolio, where she devises her own unique colour palette. The "From a Season to Another" a new project created from 2010 to 2015, represents a new stage in the work of Sarah Moon, comprises an elegy on autumn and decay that demands colour and spurns distance. For the first time she uses large format and her images turn into magical pictures, where the figurative and non-figurative are balanced in a strange flickering, they are sad and light, revealing Sarah Moon’s continually developing artistic world anew. Until 09.07.17
Multimedia Art Museum 
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 
Zinaida Serebryakova
This exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery will be one of the greatest displays ever of the Russian painter’s works over a period of 30 years. The exposition will include two periods of the painter’s creative life – Russian and French. There will be lots of portraits, the painter’s favourite genre, and landscapes. The exhibition will include sketches of murals of the Kazansky Railway Station in Moscow and a series of paintings revealing the behind-the-scene world of the Mariinsky Theatre. Works dating back to the Paris period have never been showcased in Russia before. Decorative panels of the Brouwer Villa, which for a long time was considered lost in World War II, will also be on display in Moscow for the first time. The exhibition will also feature the best works from Russian and Belarusian museum collections as well as private collections from Moscow, St Petersburg, Paris and London. Until 30.07.17
Tretyakov Gallery at Lavrushinsky Lane 
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