the Moscow City Government

the Department of Culture of the City of Moscow

the Russian Academy of Arts

the Moscow Museum of Modern Art

introduce

ARTisARTisART

The new exposition of the museum collection

Facilitator: Dmitry Ozerkov

Dates: the 25^th of November, 2011 – the 2^nd of September, 2012

Inauguration: the 24^th of November, 2011, 7:00 p.m.

Address: the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Petrovka Street, 25.

The narration about canvases and sculptures underlies the art comprehension. The works are discussed by viewers, critics, and fine art experts; in their works artists quote canvases and sculptures of their predecessors.  In any piece of artwork a lot of comments are put already in the moment of its creation. Intelligent perusal of art and a talk about it is the articulation of thoughts and ideas, put into the work. This process is endless, moreover, its beginning and its end are subtle, inasmuch as the very first comments is not possible to reconstruct since long time ago, while the last one, probably, will be pronounced far. To that end the art exegetics appears as the principal practice of its apprehension.

Twenty five exposition thematic sections notice different, sometimes mutually exclusive interpretation and comment ways. Each theme demonstrates not only the new logic of communication with art, but a new mode of emotional experience, newly expands the comment potential. This allows a viewer occupying the main place in the exhibition by right, having become the main element in the chain of endless exegetics. While making one’s way through rooms, a visitor «lives through» the entire raft of intellectual and psychoemotional states. He is to notice semantic links between the room architecture and the exposition theme, made play with in the unique museum space, and in a completely new key to recognize the diversity of philosophic ideas and aesthetic strategies, nourishing the main last century artistic processes.

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art new exposition title «ARTisARTisART» refers to Joseph Brodsky’s verse «Two Hours in Reservoir» (1965). A tautologically twisted line, the repercussions of typical to art self-reflection, became a starting place for the exposition main idea, which is the understanding of art as an integral and comprehensive open comment. «Two Hours», described by Brodsky, is approximately the time a visitor spends in a museum. In the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMMA) for this time one is offered to come in sight of reciprocal references and inter-enriching dialogues between authors, works, museum architecture, and, of course, a viewer oneself.

A comment, in its essence, is a universal link of times, which is a through art history element and at the same time an impetus to develop new artistic processes. The exhibition is forethought as a fascinating trip to the world of the XXth-XXIst cc. ideas, expressed by different drawing tools. When creating their works, artists were striving to depict and modify different forms of reality perception. A genuine work of art embodies the impulse, which power prompts to discuss the idea of the artwork, to comment, to reflect, and ideally, also appeals to the constructive outlook, outspreading these paramount ideas. Thus, all at once art both reflects the life and influences it in a basic way.

The new exposition continues world-wide museum practice towards the presentation of the museum collection as annual changing exhibits. The Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMMA) features one of the most impressive ХХ-ХХIst cc. modern art collections in Russia, which is kept constantly refilling by fresh artworks. Each exposition concept is developed by the museum research team, independently or in cooperation with an invited facilitator, which allows to introduce a collection foreshorten each time in a new way, bringing these of those works and schools into focus. The new exposition moderator is Dmitry Ozerkov, who is a famous St. Petersburg fine art expert, and a holder of Associated Professor Degree in philosophical sciences.

Art works, starting with those, created during the early avant-garde period, and to our time, will be included into the new exposition. The significant part of works, selected specially for this project, will be on display in the museum for the first time ever. Among artists, whose works will be featured in the exhibition, there are Boris Anisfeld, Kazimir Malevich, David Burliuk, Alexander Rodchenko, Alexander Labas, Andrew Voznesensky, Igor Makarevich, Dmitry Prigov, Ivan Chuikov, Victor Pivovarov, Francisco Infante, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, Yuri Albert, Constantine Zvezdochetov, Timur Novikov, Aidan Salakhova, Alexander Jikiya, Oleg Kulik, Irina Nakhova, George Puzenkov, Andrew Royter, Andrew Bartenev, art-group «Blue Noses», Yelena Kovylina, Anya Zhyelud, and others. The Olga Treyvas, Dmitry Teselkin, Shahar Markus, and Ivan Plyushch special projects will also make the exposition.