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 Visitors will see 70 paintings and 30 graphic works, photographs and memorabilia from the Munch Museum in Oslo and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. This is the first exhibition in Russia to display the Norwegian expressionist's legacy in full. The exhibits includes the famous painting ‘The Scream’, whose version is displayed at the Munch Museum. The exhibition has a separate section “Munch and Dostoevsky” about the influence of Fyodor Dostoevsky on Munch's worldview and visual thinking.
Tretyakov Art Gallery  |
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| Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and the School of London |
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 In cooperation with the Tate (London), the Pushkin State Museum presents the exhibition “Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and the School of London.” For the first time, the Russian public will have the chance to get acquainted with a unique and very important chapter in the history of modern British art and explore the legacy of artists who used figurative painting to express their deeply personal, sensual and intense life experience. The exposition includes 80 paintings and graphical artworks by many outstanding artists including Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, R. B. Kitaj, Leon Kossoff, Lucian Freud, Michael Andrews, David Bomberg, William Coldstream, Paula Rego, and Euan Uglow. Until 19.05.19.
Pushkin Fine Arts Museum |
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| Jean-Daniel Lorieux's French Holiday |
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 The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography presents an exhibition of photographs by Jean-Daniel Lorieux —one of the most famous French photographers, a legend of fashion photography, and a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Lorieux ranks alongside such huge names in photography as Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdain. His works are exhibited around the world, including Paris, Hong Kong, and Los Angeles. Jean-Daniel Lorieux studied art at Art et Metiers ParisTech in France. In 1960, he was sent to the front to serve as a photographer during the Algerian war. On his return to Paris two years later, he continued to work in photography, and took an internship at the famous Parisian Studio Harcourt. While there, he adopted the technique of working with light and shadow. Studio Harcourt has gained worldwide recognition for its black and white studio portraits with harsh, contrasting lights that create a very dramatic effect. Until 23.06.19.
Lumiere Gallery |
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| Rasheed Araeen. A Retrospective |
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 This spring, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art presents the first solo exhibition in Russia of Rasheed Araeen (b. 1935, Karachi, Pakistan), presenting six decades of work by the seminal practitioner who has had a profound influence on generations of artists, writers, and thinkers around the world. Known for his strident critique of the ideological and political assumptions of Western modernism, Araeen trained as an engineer in Karachi, before moving to London in 1964 in pursuit of an artistic career. There, he first became known as a pioneering sculptor and installation artist in the (then) emerging field of minimalism, receiving the prestigious John Moores Prize for sculpture in 1969. Until 26.05.19
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art |
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| Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso |
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 An exhibition of works by two outstanding surrealist artists - Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso - features more than 250 works: sculpture, ceramics, graphics. Among the exhibits are famous paintings on cubist and Dalinian scenes, ceramic sculptures by Pablo Picasso, which reflect his creative quest, as well as the little-known, but no less surprising graphics of Salvador Dali. For example, the exhibition presents illustrations of Salvador Dali to the medieval novel “Gargantua and Pantagruel”. Getting acquainted with the works of two outstanding surrealists of the 20th century, visitors will be able to understand: what did the two geniuses think about women, great creators, contemporaries, and their native country? The exhibition will provide an opportunity to compare the world view of artists and look at their surroundings through their eyes. For the first time in world practice, the works of two of the greatest Spanish artists are found on the same exhibition site in Moscow.
Red October Gallery |
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 The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, with the support of the French Instituteat the French Embassy, presents an exhibition titled «Surpassing Art», dedicated to the May 1968 events in Paris. It encompasses a broader period from the 1950s to the 1960s and brings to the fore the connection between politics and art. Along with posters, magazines and publications from 1968, such as the legendary ROBO and «Opus International», the exhibition features interactive installations by Julio Le Parcand Yvaral, as well as pieces by artists whose work has never been shown in Russia such as Gérard Fromanger, Isidore Isou, Gil Wolman, and Daniel Buren. The title of the exhibition «Surpassing Art» refers to one of Guy Debord’s five slogans shown as five paintings, where text takes the place of image, at an exhibition held in 1963 in Denmark. Five years later, graffiti with these slogans appeared on the streets of Paris.
Moscow Museum of Modern Art |
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