Tretyakov gallery on the Crimean shaft exhibition. Main exhibitions of autumn

Moscow City Museum

August 30 - October 26

The exhibition is a dedication to the director, whose name is rarely mentioned without the clarification “great”. Lyubimov and time. 1917–2017 100 years of the history of the country and man” is a project comparable in scale to the size of its hero. His task is to tell as much about the director as possible, because throwing out even one chapter of his biography would be an omission. The space of the Museum of Moscow comes to life, allowing you to get lost in its nooks and crannies, as in theatrical backstage corridors, and leads you forward to new parts of the exposition. Fragments of performances thundering throughout the city and their posters, recordings of rehearsals, elements of scenery and, of course, the personal archives of the actor and director, who left a mark in the history of the country, equal in length to almost a century.

2. “Cai Guoqiang. October"

Pushkin Museum im. A. S. Pushkin

September 13 - November 12

Not left unattended by museums, the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution is comprehended in each of them in its own way. Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin gives the halls of its main building to the Chinese artist Cai Guoqiang, a master of truly large-scale and spectacular installations. Guoqiang's work reflects his biography: moving from China to Japan, and then to the United States, where he arrived as an accomplished artist, a master of gunpowder painting. Creating his canvases with the help of explosive substances, exploring and experimenting, the artist reflects on a person and the world, surrounding everyone with a whole heap of social issues and problems. In the Pushkin Museum it will be possible to understand the techniques and methods that Guoqiang uses, and at the same time see an installation called "Autumn", created specifically for Moscow. The connection of a person with roots and history is personified by baby carriages and cribs, through which Russian birch trees are striving upwards.

3. Cosmoscow

Gostiny Dvor

September 8–10

Every year at the beginning of September, you can find out what is happening at international art fairs without leaving the Garden Ring, and at the same time think about purchasing your favorite art objects. The fifth anniversary edition of Cosmoscow will bring together 54 galleries from all over the world in Gostiny Dvor, and will not forget the traditional Off White charity auction and educational program.

4. Misha Most "Evolution 2.1"

Center for Contemporary Art "Winzavod"

September 6 - October 8

Misha Most's exhibition "Evolution 2.1" became the next chapter of the Winzavod anniversary cycle "Farewell to Eternal Youth". More than an exhibition in its usual form, it resembles an experimental space where static is replaced by ongoing processes. Thinking about whether the daily work of the artist will change with the development of robotics and artificial intelligence, Most finds an assistant in the person of a drone-drone, with which he embodies his concepts.

5. “Eden. distant planets"

Cultural Foundation "Ekaterina"

September 15 - October 21

The Italian Marcello Lo Giudice, who managed to unlearn not only at the Venice Academy of Arts, but also at the University of Bologna, where he received a diploma in geology, creates abstract canvases. Lyrical and energetic at the same time, they represent views of earthly landscapes. Rare or already disappeared landscapes, which can be seen at the personal exhibition of Lo Giudice in Moscow, are also in the collection of Prince Albert II of Monaco, a longtime admirer and friend of the artist. The opening of the exposition will not be missed by the Ambassador of the Principality of Monaco in Russia, Mireille Pettiti.

6. “Constantine Brancusi. Sculptures, drawings, photographs, films»

Multimedia Art Museum

September 16 - November 12

Constantin Brancusi, Sleeping Muse 1910, polished bronze 16x27.3x18.5 cm

Part of the parallel program of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, the Constantin Brancusi exhibition arrived at the Multimedia Art Museum from Paris. The photographs, drawings, films and sculptures that will be presented on it belong to the Pompidou Center collection and allow you to see new facets in the work of the eminent sculptor. The search for his own style ended with a triumph for Brancusi, turning his abstract works into real objects of desire.

7. 7th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art

New Tretyakov Gallery

September 19 - January 18

The main project of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art is called "Cloudy Forests" and is equated with a way to express attitude both to life - if we talk about the whole - and to the present day, if we mention particulars. Curator Yuko Hasegawa, well-known to the art world, remembers both the crises and the changed conditions of existence, connected, for example, with the fact that we now store our emotions, memories and plans in the “clouds”. Likewise, the forest, transformed from an ordinary green forest into a transcendent forest, is an attempt to understand man-made changes. Among the 52 authors selected by Hasegawa to participate in the main project from 25 countries, there are the names of Matthew Barney, Olafur Eliasson and Björk - provocateurs and true artists who are not going to lose sight of the metamorphosis taking place with the world.

8. Takashi Murakami. "There will be gentle rain"

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

September 29 - February 4

"Eka danpi (Amputation of Eka's Arm): My Heart Breaks for My Teacher, So I Decided to Offer My Hand to Him", Takashi Murakami, 2015. Canvas mounted on aluminium, platinum sheet, acrylic 100 × 100 × 5 cm Courtesy of Perrotin

The five-part exposition at the Garage Museum is Takashi Murakami's first solo exhibition in Russia. The world-famous Japanese reflects through his works on national culture, as well as on the multiple connections between "here" and "there", East and West, inventing images in which there is no division into "high" and "low", intended for elite or accessible to the masses. From the first chapter explaining the artist's painting techniques, the exhibition leads to important milestones in his career. For example, to the project of the mid-2000s "Baby", in which Murakami analyzed the impact of historical events - the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - on the cultural consciousness of his nation. The heroes of his works will even break out of the exhibition spaces of the Garage and will meet you either on the stairs, or in a cafe, or in the museum's bookstore.

9. “Alexander Labas. October"

Institute of Russian Realistic Art

October 1 - December 17

"Lenin's Arrival in Petrograd", A. A. Labas, 1930. State Tretyakov Gallery.

Alexander Labas met the October Revolution as a 17-year-old youth and, as he later admitted, sought to feel everything that was happening, to constantly be on the street and observe. With the help of his art, he always wanted to tell about the city and life in it, and he could not get around the theme of the revolution. Having conceived the cycle "October" in the late 1920s, Labas continued to work on it for many years, inventing new plots and returning in memory to the events of those days when his life in art was just beginning.

The canvases of Gustav Klimt have long become a symbol of Vienna, from which every tourist seeks to take away, if not a reproduction of his Kiss, then at least an umbrella, a magnet or a coffee set. Those who bypass the tourist trails usually linger just at the canvases of Schiele, choosing postcards and notebooks with once scandalous expressionist subjects as a keepsake. In other words, both artists need no introduction, just like the Albertina Museum in Vienna, from whose collection the graphic works of the Austrian avant-garde artists will come to Moscow. They, unlike painting, are not so well known to a wide range of viewers, so with its exhibition the Pushkin Museum recalls how expressive the drawings of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele can be.

11. “El Lissitzky. El Lissitzky"

New Tretyakov Gallery, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center

November 17 - February 4

Without overloading the name of the exhibition with additional meanings and naming it simply by the name of their hero, the Tretyakov Gallery and the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center are preparing a retrospective of the Soviet avant-garde artist that is impressive in scale and significance. The creative path of El Lissitzky includes classes in painting, graphics, photography, and architecture. The inventor of prouns - "Projects for the approval of the new", he began to put them into practice. After many decades, prouns, and with them photographs, collages, book illustrations and manuscripts, can be seen at once in two Moscow museums, which jointly arrange the largest retrospective of Lissitzky in history.

Photo: press materials; Anna Nova Gallery; Center Pompidou, National Museum of Modern Art - Center for Industrial Creativity / Adam Rzepka; Takashi Murakami, "Eka danpi (Eka's Arm Amputation): My Heart Breaks for My Teacher, So I Decided to Offer My Hand to Him", 2015. Canvas mounted on aluminum, platinum sheet, acrylic 100 × 100 × 5 cm Courtesy of Perrotin; State Tretyakov Gallery; Egon Schiele, Crouching, 1918. Black chalk on paper © Albertina, Wien bzw / © The Albertina Museum, Vienna

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From medieval stained glass and etchings by Goya to Gaudí furniture and sound art, here are some of the major art events in store for us over the coming months.

"Caprichos". Goya and Dali

"Caprichos" by Goya Salvador Dali. A series of 80 engravings "Let me go". 1977. Source: From the collection of Boris Fridman.

Showing a series of etchings by Francisco Goya "Caprichos" - masterpiece satire of the Enlightenment, filled with grotesque, causticity, pain and madness - and a surreal replica by Salvador Dali, who brightly colored the graphics, added his favorite motifs to the images and came up with alternative captions.

The geometry of the present

The V-A-C Foundation, while demonstrating smart and relevant projects in friendly territories, will open its future permanent site for a week. An international team of artists and musicians led by curator Mark Fell will sound the spaces of the pre-revolutionary power plant with sound art.

Saint Louis and relics of the Sainte-Chapelle

Double engagement. Stained glass window of the 13th century Paris. Source: Center for National Monuments of France. Sainte Chapelle

Artifacts of the High Gothic era associated with the reign of Saint Louis IX (1214-1270): sculptures, jewelry and miniatures of the 13th century, as well as stained glass windows of the most beautiful chapel of Sainte-Chapelle, which was built by the king as a repository of Christian shrines mined with a sword and gold . Dark and mystical Middle Ages at its best.

Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art

An ambitious attempt to present contemporary Russian art, not limited to well-known people. Six curators selected works of 60 artists from 40 cities, identified seven trends inherent in the art of all regions, and separately presented authors whose work has gone far beyond the borders of their small homeland.

Poste restante. Collections of the Russian avant-garde of regional museums. 1918-1930

The second part of a large-scale educational exhibition by Andrey Sarabyanov, one of the compilers of the three-volume Encyclopedia of the Russian Avant-Garde. Just like last year more than a hundred paintings will be taken from regional museums, including works by Wassily Kandinsky, Alexander Rodchenko, Lyubov Popova, Ilya Chashnik, Ivan Klyun, Alexander Labas, Robert Falk, Gustav Klutsis. The opening of the first part of the project, we recall, gathered a pleasantly surprised queue at the Jewish Museum - Moscow is not alive alone.

De Chirico. Nostalgia for infinity

representative exposition founder of metaphysical painting who knew how to create an otherworldly, surreal world on canvas with minimal means. About 100 works will be shown - paintings, drawings, sculptures from the collections of the Giorgio and Isa de Chirico Foundation, the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, the Pompidou Center, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Bonus - theatrical costumes that the artist created for Diaghilev's performance "Ball" in 1929.

Antonio Gaudi. Barcelona

Gaudi forever changed the face of Barcelona, ​​and first of all, the exhibition (in layouts, graphics, photographs) will tell about the most famous creations of the architect in this city: the grandiose Sagrada Familia, the Guell Palace and other buildings. In addition, furniture designed by Gaudí will be shown in Moscow, no less elegant and intricate than his architecture.

The luxury of imperial Japan

An incense burner in the shape of a karasu tengu hatching from an egg. Japan, circa 1885. Source: Collection of Professor D.N. Khalili ©The Nour Foundation .

Emperor Mutsuhito (1868–1912), who called himself Meiji, ended Japan's policy of self-isolation. Since then, the country has actively mastered the achievements of the West and exported its ideas and heritage in return. Decorative art of a bright era for Japan will feature kimonos, vases, incense burners, ceramics, metal and fabric objects from the collection of British scientist and collector David Nasser Khalili.

Henri Cartier Bresson

The works of one of the founders of the Magnum Photos agency, the first photographer to exhibit at the Louvre, have already been shown in Moscow, but an exhibition by a master of this caliber is always welcome. Cartier-Bresson is without exaggeration a great author: his pictures were never staged, but they always turned out aesthetic and highly artistic.

Someone 1917

The Tretyakov Gallery, with the advent of Zelfira Tregulova, regularly shows projects both artistic and ideological. This also applies to attention to the artists of the "severe style", and the exhibition dedicated to the "thaw". The exposition about 1917, timed to coincide with the centenary of the Russian revolution, should be especially interesting and high in level. On the example of representatives of figurative (Petrov-Vodkin, Kustodiev, Serebryakova) and abstract (Malevich, Filonov, Popova, Kandinsky) painting, it will be indicated the reaction of the main artists of the era to the events that determined the course of history.

Takashi Murakami

The Five Dimensions exhibition at the State Tretyakov Gallery presents over 120 works from the 1970s to the present day. Participating works of 50 authors

State Tretyakov Gallery
August 23 - October 8, 2017
Moscow, Krymsky Val, 10, halls 80–82

For the first time in recent decades, the Tretyakov Gallery is opening a large-scale exhibition of contemporary sculpture. The project, organized jointly with the Association of Moscow Sculptors, presents a generalized look at the diversity of styles and trends in which several generations of plastic masters have been working today since 1992.

Enough time has passed since the last significant exhibition of sculpture at the Tretyakov Gallery for the need to develop a comprehensive project, a holistic study capable of showing a cross-section of the development of modern plastic arts, has matured. The year 1992 was taken as a starting point - the date of foundation of the Association of Moscow Sculptors. In addition, the 1990s were a turning point for the art of sculpture: the state order system, which provided the craftsmen with funds to buy materials and tools, disappeared. Hard times have come for artists involved in sculpture, a labor-intensive art form that requires significant financial outlays. Nevertheless, they continued to work, and the period of the 1990s gave, like any turning point, a powerful creative impetus, the opportunity to comprehend the past and at the same time a message to new searches.

The title of the exhibition "Five Dimensions" figuratively reflects the desire of modern sculpture to expand the usual boundaries. The exposition presents works that are on the verge of sculpture and "non-sculpture", when the specific boundaries are blurred. The ultimate departure of masters from the main markers of sculpture - figurativeness, volume, figurative certainty - makes us think about completely different principles for the perception of plastic in the 21st century. The exhibition provides an opportunity to look into the artist's creative laboratory and reflects the diversity of contemporary sculptors' searches: figurative and abstract solutions, admiration of nature and the cold constructiveness of the objective world, the play of color, form, and material.

Works are presented both from the workshops of the authors and from the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery. Most of the works, many of which were created specifically for the project, will be seen by visitors for the first time. The exposition is built on the principle of contrasts and comparisons in order to encourage the viewer to their own reflections. One of the central works of the exhibition will be the work "Pushkin in the Caucasus" (2016) by Vladimir Soskiev, made in complex mixed media. A large-scale experimental composition, the volume of which is formed by numerous different-sized details made of wood and felt, resembles a mosaic that absorbs light with matte edges.

Eminent masters and young sculptors working in Moscow became the participants of the project. They can be conditionally divided into several generations: born in the 1930s–40s, 1950s–60s, 1970s–early 1980s, and late 1980s–1990s. The older generation - authors whose art is a radical experiment in plastic: Valentina Apukhtina, Lyudmila Boguslavskaya, Andrey Krasulin, Andrey Dillendorf, Nikolai Silis. The heyday of their work came in the 1970s, when artists began to discover Western art. The work from the "Nuggets" series by Andrey Krasulin was inspired by the image of crumpled paper lying in a cardboard box. The sculptor, who noticed a beautiful shape and amazing plasticity in a miraculous object, carefully kept it intact until it was cast in the material. Specially tinted and set, the form has acquired the value of a work of art.

The next generation includes recognized world-famous sculptors, the largest muralists, who are characterized by an exact plastic language. These are recognizable authors with their own artistic style. Among them are those who now teach at the best creative universities - Alexander Rukavishnikov, Sergey Milchenko, Dmitry Tugarinov. Sergey Milchenko presents at the exhibition the work "Guardian Angel" (2014), where metal is used in combination with wood as a powerful means of creating an image. Alexander Rukavishnikov made graphic works especially for the exhibition, and the bronze sculpture "Girl with jump ropes" will be exhibited for the first time. Anatoly Komelin, who belongs to the same galaxy, never aspired to publicity, but was always of interest to the sculptural community because of the maximum degree of experimentalism in his work. Victor Korneev, skillfully working with the plasticity of the human body, an adherent of the usual sculptural materials, unexpectedly dressed his "Nude" (2017) in plastic, moreover, painted in a piercing purple color.

Sculptors born in the 1970s and 1980s have already matured as authors who have found their own artistic method and strive for conciseness and iconicity. This generation is busy searching for a metaphorical language that expresses generalized ideas, abstract concepts. Alexander Vorokhob and Ilya Gureev are working with one of the main objects for sculpture - the human body. In the work "Zhilmassiv" Alexander Vorokhob is looking for themes and signs inherent in everyday life, and tries to talk about the environment and its unification in a sculptural language. Andrei Molchanovsky works with optical glass. The extreme degree of departure from the traditional incarnation of the portrait genre is reflected in his Ceremonial Portrait of Madame Doom (2016), created from blocks of glass that imitate the likeness of a female bust.

The younger generation, recent graduates of creative universities, is now going through a period of active experimentation and is striving for figurative and plastic concentration, as well as for conciseness of means of expression. These are such authors as Alexey Dmitriev, Alexander Agbunov, Vasilisa Lipatova, Mikhail Plokhotsky. A series of M. Plokhotsky "Flowers of the passing era" is the author's rethinking of the metal structures left over from the demolished Moscow kiosks. This is a kind of recycle, processing and revival of recycled raw materials into a new, already artistic image. M. Plokhotsky's thinking about the current civilization is continued in the works of Vasilisa Lipatova about the civilization of the future. Made of plastic using manual 3D printing, the Objects of the Cosmic Parallel are translucent fantasy volumes hovering above the heads of the audience.

Exhibitors: Alexander Agbunov, Maria Alexandrova, Kirill Alexandrov, Sergey Antonov, Valentina Apukhtina, Leonid Baranov, Mikhail Belyanin, Ludmila Boguslavskaya, Vladimir Buynachev, Dmitry Voronin, Alexander Vorokhob, Ilya Gureev, Vladimir Davydov, Mikhail Dronov, Andrey Dillendorf, Alexey Dmitriev , Valery Epikhin, Vladimir Zabotkin, Ekaterina Kazanskaya, Ivan Kazansky, Olga Karelits, Oleg Kovrigin, Anatoly Komelin, Viktor Korneev, Gennady Krasnoshlykov, Andrey Krasulin, Vasilisa Lipatova, Lev Matyushin, Anatoly Masharov, Sergey Milchenko, Lev Mikhailov, Andrey Molchanovsky, Elena Muntz, Mikhail Neimark, Mikhail Plokhotsky, Alexander Rukavishnikov, Alexander Sviyazov, Nikolai Silis, Alexander Smirnov-Panfilov, Vladimir Soskiev, Elena Surovtseva, Dmitry Tugarinov, Georgy Frangulyan, Olga Khan, Bilar Tsarikaev, Zurab Tsereteli, Alexander Tsigal, Boris Callous, Igor Shelkovsky, Galina Shilina.

Source: State Tretyakov Gallery press release

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Guide to the most interesting exhibitions in Moscow in the second half of 2017

Autumn and the beginning of winter are not a reason to mope, but a great opportunity to go to museums and enrich yourself culturally. In 2017, Moscow will host several significant events at once: exhibitions of contemporary art, the arrival of guests from Asia and events in honor of the 870th anniversary of the capital. We have selected eight of the most interesting exhibitions worth visiting in the second half of this year.

If one autumn day you find yourself next to the Pushkin Museum, then even on the outskirts of the building, appreciate the scale of the Cai Guoqiang exhibition, which will be held from September 13 to November 12 this year. Right on the steps of the main entrance, the genius of contemporary art and the winner of the "Golden Lion" of the Venice Biennale will erect an unusual installation of 350 strollers and cribs. Russian birches will “sprout” inside each one - a symbol of different human destinies and a reference to the famous scene on the stairs from the movie “Battleship Potemkin”. If you remember, in it a stroller with a baby rolls terribly down the steps of the Odessa stairs for a long time, while the officers shoot the fleeing crowd. "October" is the first exhibition of Cai Guoqiang in Russia, it is dedicated to the anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917. Only she tells not about the event itself, but about the person who is experiencing it. The entire space of the museum will turn into one large-scale installation, where the famous twenty-meter gunpowder paintings, sketches, sketches and sculptural groups will be presented. The author asks: who is responsible for the fate of mankind? What are the consequences of our actions? Try to find your answers by getting to know Cai Guoqiang, a master pyrotechnician from the Middle Kingdom, whose creations graced the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and the exhibition “Da Vinci of the People” gathered more than a million people and became the most visited event of the living artist.

An exhibition of paintings by the expressive artist of Belarusian origin Chaim Soutine, the general sponsor of which is VTB Bank, will open in the main building of the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin on October 24 and will last almost three months. The exposition of the works of this unsociable and original author will be held in Russia for the first time. Paintings by Chaim Soutine are very dramatic in execution and give goosebumps even to modern sophisticated viewers. Numerous "bloody" gladioli, still lifes with eviscerated carcasses and original portraits literally ooze paint and, of course, stand a little apart from the works of other representatives of the "Paris School" - the community of French artists of the 1900-1960s. Perhaps such a non-standard artistic manner was associated with the constant presence of pain in Soutine's life. Contemporaries claimed that even his face seemed to express pain all the time: he suffered from a stomach ulcer and died from it on the operating table in 1943. The exposition will occupy three halls - under three areas of the author's work: portraits, landscapes and still lifes. The organizers tried to tell what Soutine grew out of as a creator and who he influenced. In total, about 50 works will be presented: 20 paintings belong to Chaim Soutine himself, and the rest belong to masters who were somehow associated with him: Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Jean-Baptiste Chardin and others.

State Tretyakov Gallery, April 15, 2016 - December 17, 2017

Why "Reboot"? Because the exhibition, which the Tretyakov Gallery is holding until mid-December 2017, will show visitors the long-term path of contemporary Russian art and make it clear how it has evolved. The exposition is collected and grouped by genre so that guests can "combine" and "compare" the works that at different times fell into the museum's collection. An extensive panorama includes paintings, objects, assemblages, video works and installations, united by themes: "Abstraction", "Kineticism and Optical Art", "Mystics and Surrealists", "New Realism", "Pop Art", "Minimalism and Post-Painterly Abstraction". ”, “Sots Art”, “Conceptualism - an image in the head”, “Poetry and writing”, “Performance”, “Machines of understanding”, “Neo-expressionism”, “Conceptualism - a new generation”, “Postmodern archeology”, “Actionism 1990 -x” and “Project: Art of the 2000s”. Half of the 200 presented works belonged to the famous collector Leonid Talochkin and will be shown to the general public for the first time. The format of the exhibition corresponds to the name, and for the Tretyakov Gallery this is a great experiment: guests will be able to interact with some of the exhibits and even become part of them. For example, sit at a table, study interactive copies of works or turn them in your hands. In order for visitors to better understand what the charm of contemporary art is, the curators organized an additional educational program "Philosophy after Art", where you can listen to lectures and discuss the topic of free will and the connection between culture and technology.

The exhibition of watercolors and drawings from the first half of the 19th century is worth a visit, even if you are not an expert in art, just for the sake of aesthetic pleasure. 200 of the best watercolor and graphic works by artists of the Romantic era have been collected for the exposition: landscapes, genre drawings and everyday scenes. The semantic core of the exhibition is the work of teachers of the Imperial Academy of Arts: Ivanov, Yegorov, Shebuev, Bruni, Basin and their students (including the famous Bryullov). The paintings that inhabited the five halls of the museum have a clear narrative line: almost weightless, as if painted with air and light, the early works of academicians are gradually replaced by bleak everyday sepia, anticipating the graphics of the Wanderers of the 20th century. A separate room is dedicated to Bryullov's solar creativity, where illustrations from trips to Greece, Turkey and entertaining sketches of Italian life are collected. In the last hall, visitors will get acquainted with Fedotov's "observational" work: sketches of Moscow life with author's comments and satirical drawings about everyday life. During this period, there was a flourishing of magazine graphics and illustrations, which visitors can get acquainted with from the cartoons and caricatures of Sternberg, Benois, Stepanov and Ramazanov.

State Tretyakov Gallery, September 28, 2017 - January 14, 2018

Who is "Someone 1917", predicted by the poet Velimir Khlebnikov, and how he burst into world history and the history of Russia, will be demonstrated by the exhibition of the same name, which will open at the Tretyakov Gallery in September. According to the director of the museum, Zelfira Tregulova, this exhibition is not just an iconography of the October Revolution. "Someone 1917" is a reflection of the disputes, discussions, ideas and reactions of the authors of that time to an event that turned the world community upside down. Some artists were ready to cooperate with a new type of state and found it promising. Others hid in workshops and refused to see what was going on around them. Both those and others were waiting for catastrophic changes. And today, people from 1917, who did not yet know what would happen, can “talk” with us, people from distant 2017, with the help of art. About 120 works by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Boris Kustodiev, Zinaida Serebryakova, Kazimir Malevich, Vasily Kandinsky, Alexander Rodchenko, Olga Rozanova and other artists, as well as photographs and newsreels of 1917-1918 are waiting for guests. The exhibition will be multi-layered, as will the historical moment to which it is dedicated and about which there are still disputes. You should not try to interpret the works from the point of view of some concept: as Zelfira Tregulova says, “to perceive this exhibition, you need to be non-partisan.”

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, September 29, 2017 - February 4, 2018

When it comes to Japan, images are born before your eyes: anime, high technology, Tokyo neon signs, cherry blossoms, sushi, engravings depicting Mount Fuji ... All together - a combustible mixture of completely different and often incompatible things and phenomena. The work of the popular Japanese author Takashi Murakami is just that: bright, controversial and trendy. You can get acquainted with the variety of his works, presented for the first time in Russia, at the exhibition, which will be held at the Garage Museum this autumn. The author himself claims that his works are criticism of modern Japanese culture, in which everything is mixed up, and high art cannot be distinguished from a consumer product. A vivid example of the symbiosis of everything with everything is Murakami's collaboration with the Louis Vuitton brand: the artist replaced the brown-beige background of the bags with white, painted the ornaments with all shades of the rainbow and added psychedelic images of flowers, mushrooms, funny teddy bears and other characters. The exposition will be open in five halls, and the exhibits, including paintings, circulation graphics, films, objects and animation, will tell about the phenomena of Japanese culture, interpreted in a new way by Takashi Murakami.

Even small children are familiar with the work of Ivan Bilibin. Illustrations by the artist and decorator of the early 20th century are inextricably linked with images from Russian fairy tales and are instantly recognizable. We can say that it was Bilibin who formed in the minds of the inhabitants of modern Russia the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bwhat Baba Yaga, Ivan Tsarevich, sister Alyonushka and other textbook characters of Russian folklore look like. How he succeeded and where the inspiration of the author came from, will be told by the exhibition, which takes place in the Tsaritsyno estate from May 12 to October 29, 2017. The organizers collected 101 exhibits from the Ivangorod Museum, the Novoladozhsky Museum of Local History, the Priyutino Estate Museum and the Stationmaster's House Museum. Moreover, these are not only illustrations for Ruslan and Lyudmila, Vasilisa the Beautiful and The Tale of Tsar Saltan, familiar from childhood, but also no less magical sketches of costumes and scenery for theatrical productions - Ivan Bilibin was an outstanding set designer. The event turned out to be very atmospheric: the artist's works are presented interspersed with his personal belongings and items of Russian life - folk costumes, embroideries, icons, popular prints, old printed books and oriental miniatures.

The team from the Tretyakov Gallery proposes to mark the 870th anniversary of Moscow with a visit to an exhibition that will tell about the history of the city in the voices of its residents, guests and famous artists. The space will be divided into periods from the 15th to the 20th century. The historical chronicle of the city will be made up of ancient icons, paintings by authors up to the 20th century, memoirs and works by contemporary artists. The event promises to be atmospheric: the curators focused not on the information component, but on emotional perception, the opportunity to enter into a dialogue with the inhabitants of the city of different eras, to feel and see Moscow as they saw it. For example, with what enthusiasm the construction of the capital unfolded at the beginning of the 20th century - through the work of Pimenov. What cozy backyards surrounded the current Arbat - through Polenov's canvases. What Cathedral Square and the Kremlin looked like in the eyes of Alekseev, Vasnetsov and Kandinsky. The organizers have prepared many surprises and invite you to come to the exhibition right from the City Day festivities in order to truly celebrate the anniversary of the capital. It is also planned to prepare a mobile application and an educational website for the opening of the exposition.