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Arts Calendar / December 26 / Exhibitions
Arsen Revazov. Invisible Light
Invisible Light, a major exhibition of works by contemporary photographer Arsen Revazov, most of which have never before been shown in Russia, will be open in the West Wing of the New Tretyakov. The exhibition will display approximately one hundred of Arsen Revazov’s works from various years. The first area will show the red/slash/beautiful series. Anton Nossik (1966-2017), who was a journalist, well-known public figure, popular blogger and one of the “fathers of Runet”, ventured into a contemporary art project only once in order to curate this exhibition for his old friend Arsen Revazov. In 2017 the red/slash/beautiful show was on view in Venice during the 57th Biennale of contemporary art. These infrared photographs printed with red light and then deformed by the artist reflect the artist’s deeply personal understanding of the infinite concept of Russia - from the interior of a dacha to a complex trilinear panorama of a big city seen from on high. “The idea itself of conveying an image of this beautiful and contorted country by means of infrared light, printing in red and changing the flat sheet of paper into a depiction with volume and filled with literary allusions originated during one of the conversations Anton and I had. And I was very happy when he agreed to curate the exhibition that was held in his favourite city, in Venice,” Revazov recounts.
New Tretyakov Gallery 
Geometrics
Geometric abstraction is a form of abstract art based on the creation of an artistic image by combining various geometric shapes, coloured planes, straight and broken lines. In the national art of the mid-1950s, the resort to abstract art was widespread in the “unofficial” environment. Artists of the then young generation were getting acquainted with the language of geometric abstraction from the followers of Russian avant-garde artists or were discovering different art by visiting the storerooms of the Tretyakov Gallery and reading magazines brought from the West. The Moscow school of geometric abstraction is diverse in its manifestations; each of the masters contributed his own peculiarities to its development: Vladimir Andreenkov, Ruben Apresyan, Tatyana Badanina, Alexey Kamensky, Alyona Kirtsova, Vladimir Nemukhin, Eduard Steinberg, Aleksandr Yulikov, Valery Yurlov. The exhibition will feature the works of eight authors who worked in various forms of visual art – in painting, drawing, sculpture, objects and media.
Tretyakov Gallery at Krymsky Val 
Harry Benson: The Beatles and More
The Lumière Brothers Photography Centre presents Russia's first exhibition of photojournalist Harry Benson. He captures US presidents, from Dwight Eisenhower to Barack Obama and Donald Trump. But the Beatles pictures made Benson really world-famous. Photos of the legendary Liverpool Four will be the exhibition's highlight. Benson worked with the band from 1964 till 1966, their most productive and successful period. Harry Benson followed them, shooting concerts in France, their first trip to the United States and a performance during extremely popular Ed Sullivan's show, the Netherlands and Denmark tour, work on the first film about the band 'The Beatles. Eight Days a Week'. The exhibition will display legendary pictures, including photos of the band members with 22-year-old Muhammad Ali and 'Pillow Fight' included in the TOP 100 Most Influential Images of All Time by Time magazine. After the first trip with the Beatles to the United States in 1964, Benson decided to stay there forever. Later he translated the whole era of American history into his photographs. He captured both the most important events (the murder of Robert Kennedy, civil rights marches) and outstanding personalities — politicians, musicians and athletes. The exhibition at the Photography Centre will display pictures taken by Harry Benson between the 1960s and the 1990s: the famous 'The Clintons Kiss', the dance of the Reagan couple, Arnold Schwarzenegger jumping out of the water. Benson's photos reflect Benson's nature, they are dynamic, emotional, full of smiles and humour.
Lumiere Gallery 
Impressionism and Spanish Art
For the first time of this scale in Russia will there be an exhibit of Spanish art from the 19th-20th centuries. The exhibit will show works by 18 Spanish artists who worked side by side with French impressionists, and took part in the first exhibits showing the new trends of European art in the 1880s. The exhibit will present works by Joaquín Sorolla, Ramon Casas, Darío de Regoyos, Marian Pidelaserra, Ignasi Mallol, Santiago Rusiñol, Ricard Canals, Ignacio Zuloaga, Joaquim Mir, and Pere Ysern. The exhibit is comprised of 57 picturesque paintings, sculptures, and graphics from thirteen museums in Spain, as well as private collections, and supplemented by two paintings from the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. Impressionism is undoubtedly the most popular and beloved style period of the second half of the 19th century. Born on French soil, Impressionism influenced art all around the world. But, perhaps the greatest influence it had was on Spanish artists. They preferred a bright, colorful palette, so that they could share with everyone the beauty of southern nature - the beautiful shade of sweeping trees, the white speckled reflection of the sun, and flowing waters. Spanish Impressionism is influenced by classical styles. One feels the link to traditional art reminiscent of 17th century Velasquez or 18th century Goya. 13 Spanish museums participated in this project, including the National Museum of Art of Catalonia, Museum of Montserrat, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and Carmen-Thyssen Bornemisza Collection, among others.
Museum of Russian Impressionism 
Ivan Pokhitonov
The exhibition is dedicated to the 170th birth anniversary of Ivan Pavlovich Pokhitonov (1850–1923), one of the most original Russian landscape painters of the second half of the 19th – the first decades of the 20th century. His work organically combines the heartfelt and poetic view of the world, typical of Russian mood landscape, and strict exactingness to the painting quality of his works adopted from the artists of the Barbizon school. Pokhitonov developed an original artistic style that allowed him, with a very small size of paintings, to express all the characteristics of his native nature of Little Russia, the picturesque richness of French, Italian and Belgian landscapes. The exhibition provides an opportunity to fathom the particularities of Pokhitonov’s skills, to feel the beauty, freshness and poetic charm of his miniature painting. The exposition consists of around 100 works.
Tretyakov Art Gallery 
Matisse
The Gallery of European and American Art of the XIX – XX Centuries with the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. hold the largest exhibition of work by Henri Matisse, the head of the Fauves group and one of the key figures of the world art of the twentieth century. The basis of the collection, presented at the exhibition, consists of numerous paintings from the 1890s-1910s by the artist who “painted happiness.” In the early twentieth century, most of the paintings were collected and donated to the city by the customer and patron of the painter, an ardent admirer of the new French art, textile magnate Sergei Ivanovich Schukin, who collected a collection of world-class masterpieces. Henri Matisse - painter, graphic artist, sculptor, illustrator, decorator. At the end of the twentieth century, among the diversity of genres and concepts (classics, avant-garde, impressionism, academism, salon painting), he formulated his own creative concept of “emotions through simple means” and sought to create works of art that are understandable and accessible to anyone. The author declared: “I just want a tired person, looking at my painting, to taste rest and rest. Art should not bother and embarrass.” Visitors to the exhibition will be able to fully enjoy the luxury of rest among the bright, joyful and energetic canvases of the French painter.
Pushkin Fine Arts Museum 
Miles Aldridge. The Taste of Color
The Lumiere Brothers Photography Center presents the first Russian exhibition of British fashion photographer Miles Aldridge, which will feature more than forty of the photographer’s most recognizable works. “The King of Color” Miles Aldridge is a favorite photographer and cover artist for magazines such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, GQ, Vanity Fair, Numéro, The New York Times and The New Yorker. On the one hand, his works fit perfectly into the aesthetics of glossy magazines, because in terms of their visual characteristics they correspond to society’s ideas of beauty. On the other hand, they criticize the ideals of the modern world and the system of which they are a part. Aldridge always frames a woman: beautiful, sexy, strong. Moreover, she often finds herself in situations or places that emphasize the roles assigned to her by society: wife, mother, housewife, lover. The ideal femme fatale appears before the viewer as an object of consumption, part of the world of consumerism.
Lumiere Gallery 
Peter the Great. Collector, Scholar, Artist.
The epoch of Peter the Great is usually associated with colossal reforms and bright victories. The Tsar is much less known as the patron of arts and science and the founder of the first national public museum. His activities gave the country both brand new perception of the world and its place there. Collections of Peter the Great, both scientific and artistic, revealed new horizons for the Russian society, changed attitude towards current context, stimulated the interest of discoverers, statesmen, philanthropists as well as beauty connoisseurs. The aim of the exhibition is to demonstrate the significance and the revolutionary character of Peter the Great’s reforms concerning patronage of arts and science. It is the international exhibition project—the museums of Germany, Holland and the UK give on loan unique pieces from their collections. Apart from that many Russian museums, archives and libraries are actively involved in this project. The display includes about 200 pieces, viz memorial objects, unique archival documents, regalia, magnificent samples of ceremonial arms and armour, outstanding works of jewellery, paintings, sculptures, glyptics, medals and coins, scientific instruments that belonged to Peter the Great, objects from his ‘Chinese’ and ‘Siberia’ collections, as well as rare books and drawings with the records of historical, art and science collections of Peter the Great, which laid the foundation for the first public museum in Russia—Kunstkamera.
Moscow Kremlin Museums 
Polychronicity
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the Triumph Gallery present a multipart project "Polychronicity. Practice of studies in the temporal modes of contemporaneity" with the participation of Russian and foreign artists and art theorists.. The Polychronicity project focuses on discarded territories, forgotten past and reconsideration of its dramas. For instance, Alexis Deestoop in his Kairos film (2012) explores the infrastructure within the landscape of the Australian arid zone that has developed as the result of colonial expansion. Femke Herregraven’s video Terabytes Pushing Terrabites (2017) deals with land exploitation by corporate giants, while Alexandra Navratil’s Silbersee (2015) narrates the story of a lake in Eastern Germany that, due to the development of chemical industry, became the most polluted place in the country. In his Heroes film (2018), Köken Ergun illustrates the process of loci memoriae, memorial sites, turning into the battlefield of shadows of the Past and ideological phantoms of the Present. Dima Filippov’s project It’s Just a Footstep Away From Your Side (2019) revolves around post-soviet landscape, the collapse of prior social structures and the traces they have left. At the same time, other works by the participating artists speculate on possible turns humankind might take in future and new forms of interacting with reality. Thus, art theorist and architect Liam Young, in collaboration with his SCI-Arc students, makes a project exploring the image of the city of Tomorrow, where the linear historical process disintegrates and multiplicates, thus bringing together archaic realities, the present and futurologic hypotheses.
Moscow Museum of Modern Art  
Robostation
Robostation is the only in Moscow exhibition of robots and engineering technologies, dedicated to inspire kids to become engineers and celebrate the achievements in robotics. Situated at VDNkH - the biggest and one of the most popular public spaces of the capital city of Russia - exhibition invites kids and grown ups to learn everything about the future. Interact and communicate with robots from all over the world! Robostation offers multiple edutainment activities, scientific shows and workshops. It features even a Robocafé and a Robomarket. Here, robots dance and sing, recite poems and demonstrate their own inside. What’s more, the boxer robot fights and the dog robot wags its tail! Come and learn more about robotics!
VDNkH 
Russian Wedding
The official wedding lists of the tsars Mikhail Fedorovich and Alexei Mikhailovich, the wedding icon of Tsarina Evdokia Fedorovna Lopukhina and other items tell about the formation of the Russian wedding tradition and the magnificent royal wedding. Among the rare and especially valuable exhibits at the exhibition are wooden high reliefs depicting a peasant wedding. They were made by an unknown sculptor of the late 18th - early 19th centuries and presented to the exhibition by the Tver Regional Art Gallery. An authentic weaving mill of the beginning of the 19th century, spinning combs, painted spinning wheels and sewing machines of the 18th – 19th centuries from different regions of Russia tell about the important role of the dowry for the bride and the techniques of its preparation, including embroidery and preparation of the “tailor” - part of the traditional homespun dowry or factory textiles. At the exhibition you can see a wide variety of girls' hats, which have great symbolic meaning. In different regions, they played the role of wedding. After the wedding, they performed the ancient rite of "winding up": the young wife was combed with a braid and changed her headdress to a new one that completely covered her hair. A change in hairstyle and headgear testified to a final change in status.
State Historical Museum 
Thomas Gainsborough
The Pushkin Museum opens an exhibition of Thomas Gainsborough, the famous English painter of the XVIII century. His works are brought together from the National Gallery of London, the Royal Academy of Arts, as well as the artist's House Museum in Sudbury. Gainsborough became famous for his portrait and amazing pearl color. Among the artist's models were both English queens and courtesans. Although he dreamed of painting landscapes all his life, he became the first English painter to combine landscape and portrait genres in order to convey his state of mind through the features of the landscape. Gaining the artistic experience of his great predecessors, Gainsborough, who never left the borders of his country, managed to form his own style, which formed the basis for the further development of the British school. Gainsborough’s creative heritage is unique not only because of its artistic qualities, but also by the relatively small number of paintings preserved in European collections. An unprecedented exhibition in the Pushkin Museum will collect paintings, created in different periods, the artist's original graphics and exclusive archival materials. Among the unique exhibits from Britain are landscapes on glass, which are almost never issued at foreign exhibitions.
Pushkin Fine Arts Museum 
Time of Fun and Games
State Historical Museum presents an exhibition telling about holidays, entertainments and mass celebrations in Russia in the 17th – in the beginning of 20th centuries. The exposition, which is based on folk and city costumes, posters and placards, the collection of carnival sleighs and objects of applied and decorative arts, allows to form a view of ​​various Russian amusements and games on the ground of objects which have never been exhibited before. About 400 exhibits tell about entertainments - booths, knuckle fighting and downhill sledging, as well as about new ones that appeared with a change of the course of the empire - fireworks, promenades, circuses, cinema. Located in the exposition the “Archeology of amusement” will allow to see artifacts of the Stone, Bronze age, the time of ancient settlements on the Black sea and the Middle Ages, which give evidence of amusements in antiquity.
State Historical Museum 
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