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| | Arts Calendar / May 23 / Exhibitions |
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 Alex Prager is a Los Angeles based filmmaker and photographer. Her work consists of elaborately staged scenes that draw inspiration from a wide range of influences and references, including Hollywood cinema, experimental films, popular culture, and street photography. Her familiar yet uncanny imagery depicts worlds that synthesize fiction and reality. The highly choreographed nature of her photographs and films embody a visual vocabulary and style that has become uniquely her own. Beyond the bright and attractive façade of Prager’s imagery is a world full of emotion, drama and psychologically rich subjects. Her hyper-stylized and layered compositions, like those reminiscent of Diane Arbus and William Eggleston, exist in a space where there is no clear boundary between fact and fiction as well as superficiality and depth. In order to create a ‘living picture’ Prager carefully constructs the décor to emulate familiar places — streets, beaches, airports, and fills them with an onslaught of carefully crafted characters that are immersed in their own internal dialogue. The early work of the artist has been described as a snapshot of a ‘moving image’, deeply cinematic it’s no surprise that the work has sub-sequentially and seamlessly transitioned into films.
Multimedia Art Museum  |
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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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| Giacomo Quarenghi - Imperial Architect |
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 The Museum of V.A. Tropinin and Contemporary Moscow Artists presents an exhibition of rare graphic sheets of the Italian master Giacomo Quarenghi from the private collection of Sergei Choban - a famous Russian-German architect, laureate of the European Prize for Architecture, founder of the Museum of Architectural Drawing in Berlin. The exhibition presents graphics and paintings, architectural projects, landscapes and portraits, demonstrating the tremendous skill of the draftsman. In the center of attention - the Russian period of creativity of the Italian architect, which lasted almost forty years. Giacomo Quarenghi first arrived in St. Petersburg in 1780 at the personal invitation of Catherine II under a short contract. In Russia, Quarenghi found his creative homeland, becoming one of the main conductors of Palladianism in Russia - a style that eventually began to be perceived as national.
Museum of V.A. Tropinin and Contemporary Moscow Artists |
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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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| Nino Duccio. Incognito Painting |
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 The project of the international gallery of contemporary art VS unio tells about the revival of a long tradition of relations between teacher and student, the transfer of artistic experience and the secrets of the profession. Nino Duccio is a pseudonym of European businessman and collector with an artistic past, who, thanks to the diligent training of the modern master of painting, formed as an artist, but wished to remain incognito for the mass audience and the professional community. The art of Nino Duccio is outside the social context, there are no stylistic bindings — there is only a colorful impulse that generates taste sensations and moods that are understandable to everyone. Every Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat 12:00–20:00.
Arma 17 |
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| Pieter Bruegel. World Turned Upside Down |
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 Pieter Bruegel I (ca. 1525–1569), commonly known as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, was the greatest member of a large and important southern Netherlandish family of artists active for four generations in the 16th and 17th centuries. A long-time resident of Antwerp, the center of publishing in the Netherlands and a vibrant commercial capital, Bruegel brought a humanizing spirit to traditional subjects and boldly created new ones. As part of the broader European “Flemish Masters” program, ArtPlay aims to honor the great master by putting on yet another one of its amazingly immersive multimedia shows that will really bring the artist’s works to life and thrill both kids and adults like.
Artplay na Yauze |
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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 Artplay Design Center, Moscow, has launched an incredible exhibition of the “digital age artist” Android Jones. His creative message is wrapped in augmented and virtual reality formats, installations, and fulldome films. Thanks to digital technology, the art of Android Jones goes far beyond the usual framework, and turns the viewer from a bystander into one of the main characters. The master brought his best artworks of the recent 20 years to Moscow, having organized a real digital art festival in the capital city of Russia. One of his works, the Samskara installation, was created jointly with the Russian studio 360ART in Full Dome technology and earned a number of prestigious prizes. The digital art exhibition is complemented with projects by Russian authors.
Artplay na Yauze |
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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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| Treasures from the Palace Museum: The Flourishing of China in the 18th Century |
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 The Moscow Kremlin Museums present pieces from the collection of the Beijing Palace Museum (Gugong). The display will be dedicated mainly to the Qianlong Emperor (1736–1796), to important milestones in his life, as well as to court ceremonial in the Qing period. This project is the first part of the bilateral cultural initiative between Russia and China. Then, from the 8th of August 2019, the Palace Museum (Gugong) will host an exhibition “Russian Court Ceremony” from the collection of the Moscow Kremlin Museums
Moscow Kremlin Museums |
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