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| | Arts Calendar / September 28 / Exhibitions |
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| 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art: Foreigners Everywhere |
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 An exhibition of contemporary art works from the Pomeranz collection. The title borrowed from a neon work of the duo Claire Fontaine is a replication, which reminds us that art is above all a reference to otherness, an image of the other in terms of openness to the world. Otherness is understood as the entity that consequently assumes the existence of an alternative viewpoint. In the spaces of the exhibition, we are presented with a story that tells us about the east and the west, their historical upheavals and about the contemporary understood as an adequacy to the present. The collaboration of the Jewish Museum and the Tolerance Center with a major international collector gets a special meaning in this context. Thus, it turns out that the choices prevailing are rich in information about his personality, his history and his personal points of interest. Eduard Pomeranz offers us a perspective on the world and provides a response to the need for a better understanding. All this forms a set that is bound to cause considerable surprise since it has been collected over a short time and is being displayed as a coherent whole with works of great quality and enlightened attitudes. The exhibition will feature the works of Adel Abdessemed, Marina Abramovic, Ulay, Saadane Afif, Francis Alys, John Armleder, Yael Bartana, Joseph Beuys, Ulla Von Brandenburg, Mircea Cantor, Paul Chan, Claire Fontaine, Jimmie Durham, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Valie Export, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Stano Filko, Lizzie Fitch & Ryan Trecartin, Ceal Floyer, Latoya among others. "It was a challenging and attractive idea for Mr. Pomerants to be in this place …He found it to be a perfect opportunity for him and his collection," said Ami Barak, the Israeli curator of the exhibit. Pomerants first began collecting artwork in Austria, realizing that World War II had left a vacuum in an art market long dominated by Jewish collectors. Pomerants decided to fill this vacuum, collecting pieces from Eastern Europe that focused on alienation and otherness. "Pomerants is convinced that art is about a reference to otherness," said Barak. "Eddie likes to tell stories, and this is something the collection reflects very well." In keeping with this penchant for storytelling, the exhibit is divided into six chapters representing different narrative threads, as well as a preamble that both introduces and sums up the exhibit as a whole. The different chapters, focusing on themes such as "Communism Never Happened", "The World of Typeface", "The Last Performance" and "How to Set a Good Corner" focus not only on different themes but also progress chronologically, showing the development of Pomerantz's collection and his changing preferences over time.
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| Tiziano Vecelli (Titian): From Museums of Italy |
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 Pushkin's National Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow will host the exhibition of Titian's paintings: it will offer 14 canvas of the famous Italian Renaissance artist. First, the exhibition was shown in Rome from March 5th to June 16th at the exhibition halls of Quirinal Palace. Particularly, the visitors will be able to see Titian's works from the Prado Museum in Madrid ("Self-portrait", "Charles V with a Dog", and "The Burial of Christ") and from The National Gallery of London ("Allegory of Prudence"), "Danaë" and the "Shower of Gold" from the National Museum in Capodimonte in Naples, "Flora" from the Uffizi Gallery, "The Concert and La Bella" from Palazzo Pitti, the "Gozzi Altarpiece" from Ancona, the "Flaying of Marsyas" from Kromeriz. These and many more works of the great Venetian painter Titian (Pieve di Cadore, circa 1485 - Venice, 1576) are to go on display at the Pushkin's Fine Arts Museum in an exhibition designed to stand as the ideal conclusion to the sweeping overview of Venetian painting and the debate on the crucial role that it played in the renewal of culture in Italy and in Europe, promoted by the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome in an analysis of the work of the leading players in the modern revolution in painting, from Antonello da Messina to Giovanni Bellini, Lorenzo Lotto and Tintoretto, of which Titian is the last and loftiest witness in his role as the European artist par excellence. Visitors to the exhibition will be able to retrace the salient moments of this great Italian painter's uncontainable rise, from his early days in the workshops of Giovanni Bellini and Giorgione in Venice to the independence that he won with his large canvases for the Doges and for the D'Este and Della Rovere families, and ultimately with his imperial commissions from Charles V and his son Philip II. Titian's entire artistic career will be represented at the highest level, decade by decade, underscoring his masterly sense of colour and the development of his brushwork, which proved capable of surpassing the boundaries of painterly imagination. Thanks to the support of many leading museums both in Italy and overseas, the exhibition sets out to permit a broader audience to grasp the exceptional nature of an artist who was capable of merging "the greatness and the power of Michel Agnolo, the sweetness and the beauty of Raphael and the very colours of Nature herself", as Ludovico Dolce, a contemporary writer and fervent admirer of the master, so aptly put it.
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