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| | Arts Calendar / February 9 / Exhibitions |
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| Alexander Benois and the World of Art Association |
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 The exhibition is part of a series of mobile exhibitions “The Artist and the Time” to be shown in the graphics halls as part of the program “The Tretyakov Gallery Opens its Storerooms”. Russian art of the turn of the XIX–XX centuries is emphasized by the increasing role of graphics seen as the most important type of art culture. The leading role in this process belongs to the masters of the World of Art Association who completed the “Graphic” Revolution. The exhibition will feature works by the prominent artists: A. N. Benois, L. S. Bakst, M. V. Dobuzhinsky, B. M. Kustodiev, E. E. Lansere, K. A. Somov, S. Yu. Sudeikin, C. V. Malyutin, M. A. Vrubel, and V. E. Borisov-Musatov. The exhibition will include about 200 works. designer Alexander Benois was one of two Russian artists - the other being Leon Bakst (1866-1924) - who created the decorative art for Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, during its early seasons (1909-12). He is noted in particular for his design for Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka (1911), which combined elements of Rococo with Russian folk art.
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| Alexander III the Peacemaker |
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 The Historical Museum opens an exhibition dedicated to the 175th anniversary of the birth of Emperor Alexander III, one of the most iconic rulers of Russia. "Alexander III was given a little over 13 years of reign. During this time he tried to lead Russia out of its disastrous political and economic situation, while at the same time setting the task of preserving and strengthening autocratic power. The Emperor in every possible way encouraged interest in the history of his own country, tried to maintain the spirit of national self-awareness, patriotic feelings and pride for his Fatherland. The purpose of our exhibition is to reveal the image of Alexander III both as a sovereign and as a person", — says Alexey Levykin, director of the Historical Museum. The archival documents displayed for the first time will reflect the complex process of solving the Empire's foreign policy problems in Europe, the Balkans and the Far East. Despite the peace policy Alexander III paid great attention to the issue of strengthening power of the Army and Navy — "the only allies of Russia". The exhibition will present samples of firearms and until recently secret evidence of the Emperor's strategic intentions regarding the Black Sea Fleet. A special place in the exposition is occupied by memorial objects, which reveal the Emperor’s personality, his world view, human qualities and family relations. Among the exhibits are school notebooks and report cards, children's weapons and a desk chair from the study in the Anichkov Palace, family photos and items from the Emperor's personal collections.
State Historical Museum |
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| Andrey Grositsky. Objectivity |
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 The Moscow Museum of Modern Art presents Objectivity, an exhibition of Andrey Grositsky. Numerous works from different collections (not only paintings, but also graphics and objects that inspired the artist) are brought together under one curatorial idea of Sergey Khachaturov: to show the art of Andrey Grositsky in different complex contexts, from a dialogue with contemporaries to a premonition of ideas inherent in the metalanguage of present day millennials. Andrey Grositsky is a contemporary Russian artist whose work is genetically related to Russian non-conformism or ’other art’. Today he is perceived as one of the leading artists who conceptualized pictorial plasticity in his works. Grositsky is commonly referred to as one of the founders of the Russian ‘pop art’. The exhibition is located on the third floor of the main building of the Museum on Petrovka 25 and includes more than 120 works. The first two rooms introduce the viewer to Grositsky’s key works, in which household items, pieces of rusty metal, keys, and locks transcend the usual format of the canvas. The most ordinary things in his paintings live in immense space and aspire to become sculptures, they look as if cramped in a closed frame. Cosmic Artisan, a large-scale installation by Vlad Ogai anchors the space. The exposition in Room 3 is concerned with the three main issues raised in a dialogue between Grositsky and his contemporaries.
Moscow Museum of Modern Art |
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| Artyom Vasilkov: Hero-locomotive |
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 An exhibition of works by industrial photographer Artyom Vasilkov "Hero-locomotive" is dedicated to the visual comprehension of the industrial aesthetics of steam locomotives as symbols of high-tech movement. The goal of the project is to convey the image of the railway industry, which is based on the inextricable link between a steam locomotive and a person. On the one hand, the exhibition includes images of unique locomotives that are of great interest not only from the point of view of their historical value, but no less aesthetically, as combinations of bizarre textures and rhythms that capture the imagination. On the other hand, an integral part of the project is the portraits of unknown heroes of the railway industry, whose dedicated work and enthusiasm allow maintaining the smooth functioning of the railways, without which the daily life of modern society is unthinkable. Thus, both components of the project create a realistic picture of the unity of the power of metal and physical strength, combined with the firmness of a person’s character,which reflects the essence of the concept "locomotive". (Source: gallerix.org)
Classic Photography Gallery |
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| British Posters of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries |
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 The Pushkin State Museum presents the exhibition “Ad Art. British commercial posters of the late 19th — early 20th century from the collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.” The exhibition includes more than 150 advertising prints from the Museum’s collection of artworks by the most significant English artists and designers, such as Aubrey Beardsley, the Beggarstaff Brothers, Edward McKnight Kauffer, Tom Purvis, Edward Bawden, Austin Cooper, and other masters who made London the design capital of the world. The exhibition, which coincides with the publication of the catalogue raisonné for the British poster collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, continues the series of Museum projects dedicated to the research and restoration work for the renovation of fragile documents of the era—pieces of early industrial printing. These include illustrated ads, political posters, and pieces of commercial lithography such as business cards, invitations, and bookplates.
Pushkin Fine Arts Museum |
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 Renoir, Degas, Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rousseau, Signac, Gauguin, Modigliani, Klimt and van Gogh are presented in the smallest details and in the most unexpected angles thanks to Cinema360 technology. Portraits and landscapes in the format of an immersive show. Visitors of the exhibition will be transported through time and space from Moscow of the XXI century to Paris of the XIX century –called the City of Light, where was born the Bohemia, that totally changed the value of the European art. The manner of the Impressionists to depict on canvas the amazing state of rest and movement, light and shadow are admired in our days, and imitated by a large generations of artists. In nowadays, modern technology allows you to plunge inside the famous paintings. Dozens of projectors broadcast paintings on huge screens and the floor, close-up showing the unique brushstrokes of great artists. In front of the astonished spectators, the sunny fields of the Ile-de-France and the magical streets of the old Paris will come alive, and the exhibition space will be filled with flying dancers and blooming irises.
Artplay na Yauze |
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 Front to Back! is a project prepared as part of the Collection. A Vantage Point Program implemented by the MMOMA education center. The exhibition introduces the viewer to a unique aspect of the museum collection showing them the reverse side of artworks. The exhibition focuses on different aspects of the paintings’ backside: the professional activities of the curators and the restorers, as well as the images that are usually inaccessible to the public, but can tell a story about the work and the artist — here objective reality (the canvas, the stretcher, the paints, inscriptions and signs) is intertwined with fiction. Individual works in the exhibition are concerned with the idea of space ‘behind the canvas’, experiments with the format of the painting and with the traditional concept of creating and destroying the ‘illusion of depth’ in a flat work of art. The works presented at the exhibition are divided into several thematic groups, including Biography of a Painting, Artist’s Laboratory, Otherworldly, Metaphysics of Everyday Life and others. The principle behind the selection was the curator’s first impressions of the artifacts found in the museum collections with images on the reverse. A full-fledged study and description of these artifacts is yet to come, but in the meantime they have for the first time appeared in public, accompanied by brief curatorial remarks. The exhibition includes works by Alexander Rodchenko, Eduard Krimmer, Alexander Labas, Boris Sukhanov, Natalia Parkhomenko, Vitaly Samarin, Eduard Steinberg, Vasily Sitnikov, Vyacheslav Koleichuk, Inal Savchenkov, Irina Korina, Chaim Sokol, Ivan Plyusch, Taus Makhacheva and others.
Moscow Museum of Modern Art (at Yermolayevsky per.) |
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| Future Lab. Kinetic Art in Russia |
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 Tretyakov State Gallery, jointly with the Manege Central Exhibition Hall (St. Petersburg), ROSIZO State Museum and Exhibition Center, Triumph gallery and with the support of TransSoyuz Charitable Foundation, presents Future Lab. Kinetic Art in Russia. The project showcases one of the most impactful, yet underresearched art movements in the second half of the 20th century. Featuring about 400 exhibits, the project covers a broad swathe in the development of the kinetic art in the 1960s–70s, tracing its links to the avant-garde experimentation earlier in the century and to modern art practices. The Future Lab is the largest contemporary art exhibition to ever occupy the Gallery’s West Wing, where the institution hosts exciting interdisciplinary projects aimed at discovering current meanings and forms in contemporary art as emerging through novel plastic media. This project is also in keeping with the tradition of displaying timely snapshots of creative life. The location’s architecture allows for an exposition with more large-scale objects and installations, dedicated video screening areas, a larger roster of featured artists.
New Tretyakov Gallery |
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| Moscow of Naum Granovsky 1920–1980 |
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 The new exhibition of the Soviet photographer Naum Granovsky’s work is a large retrospective project that combines famous photographs of old Moscow from the 20s and the Stalin era, as well as lesser-known works created by Granovsky during the period of Soviet modernism. More than a hundred of Granovsky’s works presented at the exhibition will show how the capital changed and how Soviet architecture developed over the course of sixty years. This will allow viewers not only to remember the forgotten pages in the city’s history, but also to appreciate what we are losing today. Throughout Granovsky’s career, from the 1930s through the 1980s, his primary subject was Moscow, and the industrial, architectural, and social changes that swept the city throughout the twentieth century — from the rapid growth of the city in the 1930s, to the defense of the city during World War II, to its reconstruction and transformation in the post-war period. Granovsky’s style combined aspects of traditional pictorial photography with avant-garde perspectives and techniques, and is characterized by precise and rigorous compositions. His work shows an ongoing interest in transportation in all its forms: from the construction of the Metro and the individual character of its stations to the varied traffic that increasingly filled the streets and bridges of Moscow as the decades passed.
Lumiere Gallery |
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| Paolo Roversi: Looking for Juliet. Pirelli Calendar 2020 |
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 “There’s a Juliet in every woman, and I will never stop looking for her,” says Roversi, who invited nine women, including Emma Watson, Claire Foy and his daughter, to present their ideal version of the Shakespearean heroine. “Some of these models really are muses for me. There is an exchange between us. They make all my dreaming about beauty and family and sensuality concrete because the connection is so strong,” said Paolo Roversi in an interview with BJP-online in November 2017. Two years on, Roversi was invited to produce the prestigious Pirelli Calendar, and yesterday, his vision and muses were unveiled. Claire Foy, Mia Goth, Chris Lee, Indya Moore, Rosalía, Yara Shahidi, Kristen Stewart, Emma Watson and Roversi’s daughter, Stella Roversi, star in the calendar’s 47th edition, Looking for Juliet. Roversi wanted to tap into the Juliet that “exists in every woman”, imagining the process as a would-be casting call to find the perfect heroine. The Italian photographer produced a portrait of each woman as if they were auditioning for the role, then asked them to reenact their version of the ideal character from Shakespeare’s drama.
Multimedia Art Museum |
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| Pavel Leonov: Through the Looking-Glass |
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 The Moscow Museum of Modern Art presents Pavel Leonov: Through the Looking Glass, a retrospective exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of the artist. Pavel Leonov is one of the leading figures among the Russian self-taught painters. His works won international acclaim and in 1984 his name was included in the World Encyclopedia of Naive Art. The exposition features works from the state and private collections in Moscow and other Russian regions, which broadly cover the main themes and periods in Leonov’s work — from his first attempts in painting to the works made in the last years of his life. Even though Leonov received wide recognition in his later years, throughout the most of his career the artist did not belong to the professional art scene. Leonov’s art is closely connected with the rich folk tradition. It can be found in the themes of his paintings, in their attributes and symbols, in the depiction of human faces which resemble masks. It is also apparent in his colors which are of intrinsic value to each composition and yet define Leonov’s artistic individuality. All the works of Pavel Leonov are essentially autobiographical. Events from his personal life story are captured in each painting. The picturesque canvases, large and small, depict subjects still vivid in the author’s memory, impressions, historic events, past life situations. The cycles of paintings reproduce collisions in the artist’s uneasy life path, arranging them as a myth, a dream of a better age, a timeless utopia instead of a consistent and accurate narrative.
Moscow Museum of Modern Art |
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| Peter Cornish: The Passage of Time |
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 Peter Cornisch, 83, is one of the most important authors of contemporary Hungarian photography. The exhibition "The Passage of Time" will feature works that are significant for his work, which reflect the traditional peasant culture of the last 50 years. The exhibition presents a rich palette of photographs from different years: from the first pictures at a traditional dance evening in Transylvania in 1967 to a conceptual series of recent years, which is dedicated to Transylvanian women looking for work in Budapest. These works illustrate the irreversible processes of globalization that have influenced both the life of a single family and the culture of villagers in general. A retrospective of the Hungarian photographer, filled with the magical aura of the settlements of Transylvania and the Carpathian region, shows a world where time seems to have stood still: even when looking for work in modern Budapest, local women continue to wear traditional dresses. (Source: gallerix.org)
Classic Photography Gallery |
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| Rob Woodcox. Natural Ties |
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 Rob Woodcox is a fine art and fashion photographer currently living between Mexico and the US. As he creates each artwork, Rob strives to capture fragments of a vivid life sewn by the threads of reality, memory and dream. Each concept is a declaration of his experience and seeks to tell a meaningful story to each individual that views it. Rob's passion for photography has developed into a dedication to advocacy and making strained voices heard. Rob has produced projects raising consciousness and conversation around the US foster system and adoption, queer identity, body neutrality, racial equality and environmental justice. Having been adopted as a child and interacting often with the foster care system, Rob creates from a unique perspective, finding hope in human connection and the will to overcome negative constructs within our complex societies. When he is not creating photographs, Rob mentors artists, travels, cooks, backpacks and gets lost on whichever adventures present themselves.
Lumiere Gallery |
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| Russian Bone Carving Artworks of the 18-19th Centuries |
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 The exhibition presents a part of artworks donated to the museum from the Karisalov family's collection, revealing the diversity of bone carving art in Russia in the 18th-19th centuries. Following a tradition of the Russian pre-revolutionary philanthropists, members of the Karisalov family did not only gather a remarkably comprehensive and outstanding collection of the Russian bone carvings and studied the art of bone carvers but took care of its fate as well by bequeathing it to the museum. The earliest items on display are caskets made of mammoth tusk, dating from the first quarter of the 18th century. They bear relief carvings, ornamental patterns and images modelled after the engravings from the book "Symbols and Emblems", which was published in Russian in 1705 on the order of Tsar Peter the Great. The core group of objects includes works from the 18th century to the first half of the 19th century created by Kholmogory masters, who skillfully combined bone carving traditions with new trends of the epoch. Jewellery boxes and caskets, faced with bone plates of different colours, were decorated with relief images based on European engravings.
Moscow Kremlin Museums |
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| Tomás Saraceno. Moving Atmospheres |
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 The tenth Garage Atrium Commission is an installation by Argentinian artist Tomás Saraceno, who is known for his works at the intersection of art, technology, and environmental advocacy. A product of Saraceno’s long-standing occupation with lighter than air movement and utopian modes of co-existing, the installation for Garage is the largest presentation of his practice in Russia to date. Moving Atmospheres, a partially mirrored sphere suspended in the air, propels us toward an Aerocene epoch. Saraceno’s call to this new era is championed by the multi-disciplinary community group Aerocene. For more than a decade he has been imagining a world free from the carbon, extractivism, capitalism, and patriarchy that fuels some forms of life, a new way of being with the atmosphere and emissions-free travel, free from solar panels, lithium, helium, hydrogen, and fossil fuels. This new era stands in stark contrast to the lingering eco-traumas of the Anthropocene, the current geological age in which some human capitalistic activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment.
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