Assemblage, Object, Installation
The Russian Museum continues to acquaint its visitors with various types and movements of contemporary art. This large-scale and innovative exhibition in the Marble Palace is aimed at showing the public such art forms as assemblage, object and installation that appeared and actively developed in the 20th century. Once shocking with their novelty and peculiar nature, now they are no longer perceived as a “slap to the face of public taste” but occupy a firm place on the contemporary art scene.
Although today these art forms are relevant and popular, they have quite a long history. The exhibition reflects the development of assemblage, object and installation in Russian art.
The curator’s goal is not academic but didactic: using collection of the Russian Museum, along with some other works from individual artists and galleries, they strive to explain to the audience what is the specifics of assemblage, object and installation, why artists needed entirely non-artistic materials, actual objects and even an expansion into real space for their artistic expression.
The exhibition’s curators show the assemblage and installations in a general way, while they significantly differentiate the object to demonstrate why artists use things to create artworks, according to what principles they arrange them, what goals they pursue, what emphasis they place and what new ideas they implement.
The section From Painting to Object features artworks from the 18th to 20th century and Avant-Garde works of the 1920s, including those by Johann Gottlieb Schwarz, Vladimir Izdebski and Sofya Dymshits-Tolstaya.
The Assemblage section is represented with works by Alexander Mordvinov, Władysław Strzemiński, Pyotr Miturich, Anatoly Belkin and Vadim Voinov.
The Object section is presented in all its variety of types and forms:
From Sculpture to Object (Vladimir Tsivin, Leonid Sokov and Daniil Kaminker).
Overcoming Function (Kazimir Malevich and Nikolai Suetin).
Thing in Focus (Leonid Borisov, Vitaly Pushnitsky, Vladimir Kozin and Konstantin Simun).
Narrative, or Conceptual, Object (Timur Novikov, Vladimir Kozin, Olga Florenskaya and Alexander Florensky).
Abstract Object (Leonid Borisov, Vladislav Koleichuk and Igor Shelkovsky).
Costume as an Object (Tatyana Parfyonova, Andrei Bartenev, Sergey Chernov and Konstantin Goncharov).
Found Objects (Mikhail Karasik, Pyotr Bely and Yury Alexandrov).
“Strange” Object (Konstantin Simun, Kirill Khrustalev and Alina Glazun).
The Installation section is represented with works by Ilya Kabakov, Elena Elagina, Igor Makarevich and Elena Gubanova.
Supported by GES-2 House of Culture.
Age restriction: 6+
. 1872. Холст, клеевая краска. ГРМ.jpg "30 paintings from the life of Peter the Great")
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Russian Museum - one of the world's largest museums and is perhaps the only country where such a full treasure of national culture are presented.
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