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Arts Calendar / November 5 / Exhibitions
Cai Guo-Qiang: October
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
Pushkin Fine Arts Museum 
Chaim Soutine. Retrospective
A joint project curated by the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts and the Musée de l'Orangerie, this is the first exhibition of the most prominent representative of the School of Paris to ever take place in Russia. Over 60 art works from Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, private collections from Russia and European countries will be put on display. Inspired by classic painting in the European tradition, exemplified by the works of Rembrandt, Chardin and Courbet, Soutine developed an individual style more concerned with shape, color, and texture over representation, which served as a bridge between more traditional approaches and the developing form of Abstract Expressionism. Only after his death his vivid colors and passionate handling of paint gained him recognition as one of the foremost Expressionist painters. Until 21.01.18 Read more
Pushkin Fine Arts Museum 
Constantin Brancusi: Sculptures, Drawings, Photographs, Films
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
Multimedia Art Museum 
Gustav Klimt. Egon Schiele. Drawings from the Albertina Museum (Vienna)
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts opens the exhibition of drawings by the most outstanding representatives of Austrian art of the early 20th century, Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) and Egon Schiele (1890–1918) in October. The exhibition is part of the Russia-Austria Tourism Year 2017, announced in Vienna on January 12th 2017. At the first large-scale exhibition of artworks by Klimt and Schiele more than 100 sheets from the collection of the Albertina Museum (Vienna) will be displayed – 47 drawings by Gustav Klimt and 49 drawings by Egon Schiele. These artworks originated during different creative periods and show different kinds of drawings: studies of the figures related to the paintings, portraits, single studies of female nude figures, etc. With the traditional graphic technics – black chalk, pencil, watercolours, gouache – the artists were solving new esthetic problems occurring at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. The artworks by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele entered the Albertina collection during the lifetime of the artists. Nowadays, a century later, the number of drawings has increased to 170 drawings by Klimt and to 140 by Schiele, in addition to about 40 works that are in long-term storage at the museum. Until 14.01.18 Read more
Public Museum of Moscow Metro 
Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Scrapbook, Photographs 1932-1946
The Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, is continuing its introduction to the work of the great French photographer, one of the founders of the humanist school in photography and the co-founder of the legendary Magnum photography agency, Henri Cartier-Bresson. In 2000, within the framework of the Third Photo-Biennial 2000 Moscow International Month of Photography in Moscow, at the Moscow House of Photography, an exhibition titled ‘Henri Cartier-Bresson. USSR: 1950—1970’ was held with enormous success. Now MAMM is presenting a new exhibition titled ‘Photograph Album by Henri Cartier-Bresson. 1932-1946’, which details the early period in the photographer’s work. Henri Cartier-Bresson was born in 1908 in the town of Chanteloup-en-Brie, not far from Paris. From early childhood he had a great interest in painting and dreamt of becoming an artist. In 1927, Cartier-Bresson enrolled at the renowned private school of the sculptor and cubist artist André Lhote. Paying his dues to his teacher, Henri Cartier-Bresson later recalled that Lhote had infected him with «the virus of geometry» and taught him ‘to photograph without a camera.’ He had to interrupt his studies for service in the army, but Cartier-Bresson didn’t return to Lhote’s studio, deciding that he should independently find his own path in painting. "Photograph Album by Henri Cartier-Bresson" recounts his formation as a photographer, his periods of success and failure, his searches, his doubts, his passion for cinematography and years in captivity during the war. This is a look into the past, a summing up, a necessary pause that would be followed by a powerful leap forward — the formation of Magnum Photos, the most famous photo agency in the world, affiliation with which became synonymous with artistic recognition for many generations of photographers. Until 10.12.17
Multimedia Art Museum 
Philippe Chancel. Rebels’ Paris 1982
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
Moscow Museum of Modern Art  
Sean Scully: Facing East
The Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow and the Kewenig Galerie, Berlin present ‘Facing East’, an exhibition by luminary of contemporary art Sean Scully, the celebrated artist and pedagogue. For the first time this large-scale display gives Russian audiences an opportunity to trace the artist’s creative development from the late 1960s to the present day. Sean Scully was born in Ireland and received a brilliant art education in the UK. He has worked in New York since 1975, and since the early 2000s his life and artistic output have been inextricably linked to New York and Berlin. In 1989 and 1993 Sean Scully was nominated for the Turner Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in the field of contemporary art. He was granted the honorary degree Doctor of Literature from the University of Newcastle in 2010, and in 2013 became a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. According to the legendary critic and culturologist Arthur Danto, the name of Sean Scully "belongs on the shortest of the short list of major painters of our time". The exhibition is comprised of paintings, watercolours, pastels and compositions in mixed media. As visitors follow the exhibits from single figures painted in 1967 to the strict musical "Landlines" created half later, they bear witness to the formation of Sean Scully’s characteristic and recognisable visual language. Sean Scully’s exhibition "Facing East" is showing at the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow until early December, when it transfers to the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. Until 01.02.18
Multimedia Art Museum 
Takashi Murakami. Under the Radiation Falls
The exhibition at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art is the first major survey of Takashi Murakami's work in Russia and spans several periods of the artist’s career from the mid-1990s to now. Presenting his work in the broader context of Japanese culture for the first time, the exhibition pays homage to Murakami’s long-term project to creatively unite and question Eastern and Western traditions. Consisting of five sections that each explore a particular phenomenon in Japanese culture which has been formally or semantically examined by Murakami, the show reveals the artist’s inquiries into the nuanced facets of Japanese culture and public consciousness, blurring the line between high and low culture while merging various media into one continuous flow of images. The exhibition at Garage includes more than eighty paintings, drawings (including prints), and films by Murakami from the collections of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; and private collections. The exhibition also includes traditional Japanese engravings and paintings from the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, various artifacts from Murakami's studio, and photographs and examples of manga from Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Until 04.02.18
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art  
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