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| | Arts Calendar / May 14 / 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
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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| Giorgio de Chirico. Metaphysical Insights Exhibition |
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 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 |
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| Giorgio Morandi: 1890 – 1964 Exhibition |
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 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 |
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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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| Mark Neville: London – Pittsburgh |
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 Mark Neville began his career as an artist and sculptor, using the camera primarily to record his installations. His first documentary photo project came in 2004, when he spent a year photographing local residents in Port Glasgow, a Scottish town now beset by the industrial downturn, where his subjects included neighbours, patrons of bars and clubs, and members of diverse urban groups from football teams to Christian communities. His ‘Port Glasgow’ photo album was based on these images. Calling on boys from the local football club, Neville then distributed the books to every household in town: his aim to reach every individual featured in the project, especially those unlikely to purchase a photo album with high production costs from a shop. There was a huge response to the book: some accepted the artist’s view, but many felt he had exaggerated and deliberately shown the town and its inhabitants in a negative light. After ‘Port Glasgow’ Neville decided to continue his focus on documentary photography and for him this became an instrument of social criticism. In Pittsburgh Neville worked in two areas that were diametrically opposed in social terms — respectable Sewickley and working class Braddock, the latter having developed around the steel giant before languishing in the 1980s, when American industry hit crisis point. In London Boujis, the nightclub frequented by Prince Harry, represents one extreme, the subcultures generated by abject poverty the other. Neville shows modern-day contrasts by applying the visual style of cult photographers active in the 1970s and 1980s, those who photographed the USA and UK in times of recession. It soon becomes clear that little has changed in the intervening years. Until 14.05.17
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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| Russia and Izvestia: 100 Years |
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 This year the legendary national newspaper Izvestia celebrates its centenary. Izvestia is the mirror of an epoch, reflecting the most important, vivid and significant events in our political, economic, international and cultural life. The project ‘Russia and Izvestia: 100 Years Together’ is a unique chronicle of the country. The newspaper has changed with the country. And like the country, it has experienced difficult times and periods of prosperity. Since its inception on 13 March 1917 the Izvestia newspaper has reported on the socio-political course of the era. One of the first editors of the newspaper, Menshevik Fyodor Dan opened the 2nd All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies on 7 November 1917, at the very moment when storming of the Winter Palace began. The first decrees of Soviet power, ‘On Peace’ and ‘On Land’ were published in the pages of Izvestia. The exhibition presents unique documents from the archive of the special department that remained ‘classified’: confidential correspondence with Stalin and the Party Central Committee, with heads of the People’s Commissariats and ministries or special correspondents of the newspaper abroad, as well as artefacts such as Nikolai Bukharin’s typewriter, the 1940 editorial identity card of outstanding photographer Mikhail Prekhner who worked at Izvestia until his death in August 1941, and other items. Naturally the most important part of this exhibition is the photographs. Since its inception Izvestia has been famous for having one of the strongest photographic departments in the country. Photo correspondents from the newspaper created a unique chronicle of the war years and the work of Dmitri Baltermants, Samari Gurari, Georgi Zelma, Georgi Samsonov and Pavel Troshkin are now known and recognised worldwide. Regular Izvestia photojournalists Konstantin Kuznetsov, Anatoly Skurikhin, Nikolai Petrov, Sergei Smirnov, Alexander Steshanov and Viktor Akhlomov are among those who inscribed the most important pages in the country’s photo chronicle. The exposition includes both original issues of Izvestia, including the years 1917 to 1918, and reprints of different issues of the newspaper from the 100 years of its existence, as well as typographical stereotypes with the first documents produced by the Soviet government, the Decree on Peace and the Decree on Land. Until 14.05.17
Multimedia Art Museum |
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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
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art |
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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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 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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