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| | Arts Calendar / September 17 / Exhibitions |
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 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
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 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
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| Constantin Brancusi: Sculptures, Drawings, Photographs, Films |
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 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
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17:00 | Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse |
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 Documentary. Great Britain 2016, 93 min. Directed by Phil Grabsky. In English with Russian subtitles. Claude Monet was an avid horticulturist and arguably the most important painter of gardens in the history of art, but he was not alone. Great artists like Van Gogh, Bonnard, Sorolla, Sargent, Pissarro and Matisse all saw the garden as a powerful subject for their art. These great artists, along with many other famous names, feature in an innovative and extensive exhibition from The Royal Academy, London. From the exhibition walls to the wonder and beauty of artists’ gardens like Giverny and Seebüll, the film takes a magical and widely travelled journey to discover how different contemporaries of Monet built and cultivated modern gardens to explore expressive motifs, abstract colour, decorative design and utopian ideas. Guided by passionate curators, artists and garden enthusiasts, this remarkable collection of Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, and avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century will reveal the rise of the modern garden in popular culture and the public’s enduring fascination with gardens today. Long considered spaces for expressing colour, light and atmosphere, the garden has occupied the creative minds of some of the worlds greatest artists. As Monet said, "Apart from painting and gardening, I’m no good at anything". For lovers of art or lovers of gardens, this is an ideal film.
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| Panticapaeum and Phanagoria. The Two Capitals of the Bosporan Kingdom |
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 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
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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
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| Sveonum Monumenta Vetusta |
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 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
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13:00 | The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism |
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 Exhibition film. Great Britsain 2017, 87 min. Directed by Phil Grabsky. In English with Russian subtitles. Following the smash hit Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse from Season 3 of "Exhibition on Screen" comes a new film based on the hugely popular exhibition ‘The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement’ from the Florence Griswold Museum in Connecticut, widely considered a home of American impressionism. American impressionism took its lead from French artists like Renoir and Monet but followed its own path that over a thirty-year period reveals as much about America as a nation as it does about a much-loved artistic movement. The story of American impressionism is closely tied to a love of gardens and a desire to preserve nature in a rapidly urbanizing nation. Travelling to studios, gardens and treasured locations throughout the Eastern United States, UK and France, this mesmerising film is a feast for the eyes.
Cinema Park Metropolis |
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 Exhibition Film. Great Britain 2014, 87 min. Directed by Phil Grabsky. In English with Russian subtitles. Monet, Ceaznne, Degas, Renoir: some of the world’s most popular artists. Their works, and that of their contemporaries, fetch tens of millions of dollars around the globe. But who were they really? Why & how exactly did they paint? What lies behind their enduring appeal? To help answer these questions, this unique film secured unparalleled access to a major new exhibition focussing on the man credited with inventing Impressionism as we know it: 19th century Parisian art collector Paul Durand-Ruel. This eagerly anticipated international exhibition is possibly the most comprehensive exploration of the Impressionists in history. It was Durand-Ruel’s brave decision to exhibit the Impressionists in New York in 1886 that introduced enlightened wealthy Americans to this modern French painting. In doing so, he not only filled great American galleries with Impressionist masterworks, but kept Impressionism alive at a time when it faced complete failure. This energetic and revealing film will tell his remarkable story along with that of the Impressionists themselves. Featuring universally loved masterpieces by Monet, Degas, Cezanne, Renoir, Pissarro and many more.
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17:00 | Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure |
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 Exhibition film. Great Britain 2013, 88 min. Directed by Phil Grabsky. In English with Russian subtitles. The National Gallery, London, is offering a fresh look at one of the most startling and fascinating artists of all – Johannes Vermeer, painter of the famous Girl with a Pearl Earring. The National Gallery has chosen to focus on Vermeer’s relationship with music. It is one of the most popular themes of Dutch painting and reveals an enormous amount about the sitter and the society they lived in. New research, revealed for the first time at this exhibition, shows how his technique and materials affected his works. Tim Marlow goes beyond the exhibition to tell the entire story of Vermeer’s life – and, in doing so, shows in fabulous HD detail many other of the artist’s captivating works. For those inspired by the 2003 film, Girl with a Pearl Earring, starring Colin Firth and Scarlett Johansson, this new, cinematic exploration will take their enjoyment and fascination of Vermeer’s life and work to a new level.
Karo 7 Atrium |
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