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| | Arts Calendar / May 21 / Exhibitions |
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 Flea Market is an amazingly unpredictable project. Visiting Flea Market is more adventures than shopping, more excitable than sport and more informative than excursions. It is here where national peculiarities become so vividly apparent. This is not a supermarket with goods being strictly classified and labeled. Flea Market is a rare opportunity to see and purchase vintage items of different times and purposes: antique furniture, kitchen ware, books, etc. Flea Market is where you search and find, even though you don't know what exactly it will be. Flea Market as its organizers speak is an art project where the way of life adjoins with art. The spring exhibition will please you something interesting and non-standard as in last years: vintage items, antiques, designer items and souvenirs, showing of original and almost museum collections. The special project of the 37th exhibition is "The old kitchen pots" including a degustation of different dishes, workshops by famous and talented Russian chefs and experts of Italian and French cuisine, lectures by writers, historians and reserchers of the cookery in past and future, owners of Russian and international awards (for example Gourmand Cookbook Awards). The "Antique Kitchen" will finish with a great tea-drinking. Flea Market will be full of surprises and unexpected finds. Here you can buy a gift for somebody or meet with friends or supplement your collection. Flea Market is a good opportunity to return to a childhood, to find something that was forgotten or gone. Prices are reasonable, bargaining is welcomed and the atmosphere is friendly and cozy.
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| Herb Ritts: in Piena Luce - in Full Light |
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9th Moscow International Biennale "Fashion and Style in Photography" presents an exhibition of Herb Ritts, the American photographer, director and producer. The exhibition includes more then 100 his works and among of them are famous photos of Madonna, Richard Gear, Michael Jackson and others which will be presented by Herb Ritts Foundation in Los Angeles and it will be the first time its will be shown in Russia. Herb Ritts began his photographic career in the late 70's and gained a reputation as a master of art and commercial photography. In addition to producing portraits and editorial fashion for Vogue, Vanity Fair, Interview and Rolling Stone, Ritts also created successful advertising campaigns for Calvin Klein, Chanel, Donna Karan, Gap, Gianfranco Ferré, Gianni Versace, Giorgio Armani, Levi's, Pirelli, Polo Ralph Lauren, Valentino among others. Since 1988 he directed numerous influential and award winning music videos and commercials. His fine art photography has been the subject of exhibitions worldwide, with works residing in many significant public and private collections. In his life and work, Herb Ritts was drawn to clean lines and strong forms. This graphic simplicity allowed his images to be read and felt instantaneously. They often challenged conventional notions of gender or race. Social history and fantasy were both captured and created by his memorable photographs of noted individuals in film, fashion, music, politics and society. Ritts was committed to HIV/AIDS related causes, and contributed to many charitable organizations, among them amfAR, Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, Project Angel Food, Focus on AIDS, APLA, Best Buddies and Special Olympics. He was also a charter member on the Board of Directors for The Elton John Aids Foundation. Herb Ritts passed away on December 26th, 2002.
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| Robert Capa: Retrospective |
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 In Days of Hungarian Culture the Multimedia Art Museum presents an exhibition of Robert Capa, the classic of picture stories, the founder of the legendary photo agency Magnum. Robert Capa was born as Endre Friedmann in Budapest but left Hungary at a very young age because of his political involvement in the leftist opponents of the then dictator Miklós Horthyn. He moved to Berlin where he studied at the Hochschule für Politik. He worked first as a photo lab technician and then as a photography assistant for a German photo agency (Dephot). Capa made his entrance as a professional photographer in 1932 when the Zeitung published his report of a meeting of Leon Trotsky in Copenhagen. Despite his disgust for everything associated with war, he was best known for the inimitable way he covered conflicts like the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II, the Arab-Israeli War of 1948 and the First Indo-China War. He worked as a photographer for magazines such as Vu, Life, Regards, Le Soir and the Weekly Illustrated, and after WW II in 1947 founded the press photo agency Magnum Photos together with Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour, George Rodger and William Vandivert. Not only his presence in major war zones but also his friendships with artists such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck yielded images that to this day are inscribed in the collective memory. Robert Capa died on May 25, 1954 in Indo-China following an accident with a landmine. The exhibition "Robert Capa: Retrospective 1932–-1954" draws on the full range of Robert Capa's work to reveal the scope and richness of his photography while reaffirming his greatness as a war photographer. The exposition includes 120 Capa's works which the Hungarian National Museum bought from the International Center of photography in New York in 2008.
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