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All you wanted to know about video-art
Events of the russian and international video-art
life....
RusskiAlbum Baraholka
Non-sorted articles on modern art of St.Petersburg in a mixture of both
Russian and English...
Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design at V&A
The V&A’s major spring exhibition, Surreal Things, will be the
first to explore the influence of Surrealism on the world of design – theatre,
interiors, fashion, film, architecture, and advertising.…..
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White Space Gallery Presents Depository of Dreams
White Space Gallery presents Depository of Dreams: Alexander
Brodsky, Olga Chernysheva, Ivan Chuikov, Yuri Avvakumov, Ilya Kabakov, Vitaly
Komar, Oleg Kulik, and Dmitri Prigov, on view through December 20…..
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Artissima International Fair of Contemporary Art in
Turin
Turin will be hosting the most intriguing event of the season:
Artissima, an appointment with all the appeal that attracts VIPs, a chance to
meet the people that count in the contemporary art world: artists, collectors,
museum directors, curators, art critics…..
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Art Basel Miami Beach (7-10 Dec 2006)
Art Basel Miami Beach takes place from December
7 — 10, 2006. The international art show in Miami Beach (Florida) is
the American sister event of Art Basel in Switzerland, the most important annual
art show worldwide for the past 37 years..
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Optica '06 : the Gijon International Festival of Video
Art
Optica: the Gijon International Festival of Video Art, is one of
the first festivals of its kind in Spain, and at the same time is among the
cultural events in Asturias which attracts the most media attention..
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Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples/1960 to
Now
NEW YORK.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Eye on Europe:
Prints, Books & Multiples/1960 to Now, an exhibition that identifies major
developments in the mediums of prints, books, and multiples in Europe over the
past 45 years.
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Velazquez Opens Today at The National Gallery
LONDON, ENGLAND.- For the first time in Britain, a
major exhibition will trace the career of one of the very greatest painters
— Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (1599–1660). .
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Reclusive art mogul Saatchi sets up virtual
gallery
Reclusive British modern art mogul Charles Saatchi,
credited with creating the BritArt boom of the 1990s,
has set up a virtual gallery on the Internet to let unknown artists
from around the world showcase their work.
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More Than 6,000 Visit Picasso Exhibition
MADRID, SPAIN.- There was a long line of people outside the Goya
door of the Museo del Prado as well as outside the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia to
see the exhibition of the year: Picasso:...
Giant Breasts among Nominees for Turner Art Prize
LONDON, May 16, 2006—Huge knobbly breasts and disco-dancing
Palestinians are among the works short-listed for Britain’s most prestigious and
controversial art award, the Turner Prize, the judges revealed
Tuesday...
Art Moscow 2006 plus Interview with Mr. Bychkov
This year's Art Moscow faces the 10th anniversary of a success
story in Russia. In Moscow the capital of the biggest country in the world
contemporary art is a small but steadily growing plantlet...
Artists Against the State: Perestroika Revisited
A It has not been emphasized nearly enough that the history of
nonconformist art is one of the great heroic stories of the last half of this
century...
THE YOUTH OF TODAY
A growing emphasis on the media, individuality, and
commercialism is producing a constantly increasing diversity of youth
scenes...
The Amos Anderson Art Museum
The museum is housed in what was Amos Andersn's private home,
built in 1913. The building, designed by the W.G. Palmqvist and Einar Sjöström
architects' office, also functioned as the head office of Anderson's business
operations....
Eva-Maria Wilde’s and Nikos Navridis’ first joint exhibition
In her third show in gallery magnus muller,
Eva-Maria Wilde presents works from the years 2005 and 2006,
created especially for this purpose....
Warhol's World: Photography & Television
Hauser & Wirth London are extremely pleased to present an
exhibition of photographs and television shows by Andy Warhol....
WINNER II PAINTING PRIZE
The Castellon County Council (Spain) is delighted to announce
that the winner of the 2nd edition of the International Painting
Prize....
Christo and Jeanne-Claude to be awarded at the Florence Biennale
The fifth edition of the Florence Biennale of Contemporary Art
will take place at the historic Fortezza da Basso from December 3rd to the 11th,
2005. This year’s edition will include as honoured guests acclaimed artists
Christo and Jeanne-Claude....
London Art Fair 2006
The 18th London Art Fair runs from 18th-22nd January 2006
presenting the very best of Modern British and Contemporary art....
Kunst 05 Zurich International Contemporary Art Fair
The former ABB factory building again provides Kunst 05 Zurich
with optimal conditions for the presentation of contemporary art...
Art Basel Miami Beach (1-4 Dec 2005)
Art Basel Miami Beach takes place from December
1 - 4, 2005. The international art show in Miami Beach (Florida) is the American
sister event of Art Basel in Switzerland...
Canaletto in Venice Opens Today at The Queen's Gallery
Beginning November 5, 2005, the James Cohan Gallery will present
an exhibition devoted to new work by pioneering video artist Bill
Viola...
BILL VIOLA EXHIBITION OPENS NOVEMBER 5
Beginning November 5, 2005, the James Cohan Gallery will present
an exhibition devoted to new work by pioneering video artist Bill
Viola...
From the history of icon-painting of St.Petersburg. (Late XX-th - early XXI-st
centuries)
The celebration of the millennium of Christening of Rus
opened a new stage in the development of orthodox culture in Russia. At the end
of the XX-th century more than 70 icon-painters worked in St.
Petersburg....
Leningrad – St. Petersburg.
The 60s
Lev
Mochalov
That the 1960s should be regarded as a new stage in the evolution of domestic
artistic culture is true. Its background is well-known: the time of thawing, the
debunking of the personality cult gave an impetus to social and creative
development......
Lithodraphy
Workshop
The Graphic workshop and laboratory at the graphics section of The Leningrad
Organization of Artists' Union was set up for "efficient and creative
printmaking" in 1933. In the beginning, the old building on the Moika
river......
The Arefiev
circle
In 1932 the Union of Artists was set up and all other art associations including
The Circle of Artists and The 4 Arts, which had been so influential in the
prewar Leningrad, were dissolved......
The The Matveev
school
A.T. Matveev was a pupil of P.P. Trubetskoy, who held a tenure at Moscow
Painting, Sculpture and Architecture College. At the turn of the 19th century,
Trubetskoy juxtaposed his art......
Elena Gubanova and Ivan Govorkov, «Delicate Vibration»
The artists Elena Gubanova and Ivan Govorkov are well-known
to the Petersburg public. Tasks that Elena Gubanova sets in her work are in the
tideway of «spiritual abstraction»....
Vladlen Gavrilchik. "Memoria"
In the life of a creative man, the 75th anniversary marks the
third awkward age. At the age of 15 you defy the world, at 55 the same world
crowns your iron-grey hair with tin-laurels....
- T. Shekhter « The
Non-Official art of Leningrad (St Petersburg). History Sketches".
»
In the art culture of the second part of the 20th century we encounter a
phenomenon that does not fit in the traditional vision of trends and movements
resigning themselves to a single conventional code of working rules.
Russians beyond
the boundary
Konstantin
Simun
Despite his age and bible-like patriarchal appearance - grey beard and
a penchant for uttering aphorisms — Konstantin Simun
is known at the Russian Museum simply
as «Kostya»....
S. Rossine,
«The Double-Underground Artist»
… Solomon's method is albums of sketches, later in his workshop he makes
pictures after these graphic works. He has traveled half the Soviet Union with
his albums. Hence the themes: «Samarkand's gypsies, as they
are»....
Nikolai
Zagrekov
Every Russian artist is a Levsha (Lefty) by nature. He is diligent of learning
sciences, adept at adopting overseas methods, capable of transforming an English
pistol to a Russian samovar in a jiffy, toils never sparing himself and dies in
complete squalor and oblivion.....
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