Art Moscow 2007
dal 15/5/2007 al 19/5/2007
Segnalato da
15/5/2007
Art Moscow 2007
Central House of Artists, Moscow
11th International Art Fair. A range of sectors: Art Moscow contemporary art fair, several non-commercial exhibitions, a series of lectures, seminars and master classes. Every year there are also exhibitions by winners of the Black Square prize, and one country will be particularly focused on as Guest. In the frame of the art fair are planned a number of dedicated events as well as exhibitions and special projects.
11th International Art Fair
Art Moscow represents the largest and most important fair for contemporary art from the 20th to 21st century in Eastern Europe. It was founded in 1995 and is today one of the major art events in the Russian Federation. In the last years the number of participants has risen significantly and in 2006 more than sixty galleries from Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Italy, Sweden, England, USA and Latvia took part. They altogether presented every part of modern art: video and photography, painting, editions, sculptures and installations.
Art Moscow covers a range of sectors: Art Moscow contemporary art fair, several non-commercial exhibitions, a series of lectures, seminars and master classes. Every year there are also exhibitions by winners of the Black Square prize, and one country will be particularly focused on as Guest like Germany with the Country Nordrhein Westfahlen NRW in 2006. In 2006 the fair was attended by more than 35,000 visitors, including a large number of art lovers, representatives of Russian and foreign museums, curators, art critics and collectors.
The art market in Eastern Europe, and Russia in particular, has virtually exploded during the last years. Particularly Russia today represents a complete different image compared to years ago. The turnovers in economy, stock market and art market have risen at a fast speed. For the first time more money is being invested in the country than abroad. The Russian art market profits from this upcoming trend. Art Moscow offers an interesting and welcoming cultural event to Russia, an offer which the culturally well educated population with a high interest in the arts and its grown prosperity likes to take advantage of.
GALLERIES 2007:
ABC Gallery Moscow
Aidan Gallery Moscow
AMT Gallery Milan
Anna Nova Gallery SPb
Arka Gallery Vladivostok
ArtStrelka Gallery Moscow
Bereznitsky Gallery Berlin
D139 Gallery SPb
Dmitriy Semenov Gallery SPb
E.K. ArtBureau Moscow
Elena Vrublevskaya Gallery Moscow
Fine Art Gallery Moscow
Forsblom Gallery Helsinki
Gallery Burkhard Eikelmann Duesseldorf
Gallery 45 Nikolaev
Gallery Lumas Cologne
Gallery Mark Hachem Paris
Gallery Noah Augsburg
Gallery Obrist Essen
Gallery Schubbe Projekt Düsseldorf
Gallery Haus schneider Usci Kolb Karlsruhe
Gallery Pack Milan
Gary Tatintsian Gallery Moscow
Gertsev Gallery Moscow
Glaz Gallery Moscow
Guelman Gallery Moscow
Hans Knoll Gallery Vienna/Budapest
Houses of Art Hague
Image Furini Arte Contemporana Arezzo
Iragui Gallery Paris
Karenina Gallery Vienna
Karin Sachs Gallery Munich
Krokin Gallery Moscow
Leonhard Ruetmueller Contemporary Art Basel
Lumas Avenso Gallery Cologne
Marina Gisich Gallery SPb
M'ARS Moscow
Nosbaum&Reding Art Contemporain Luxembourg
NT Art Gallery Bologna
Orel Art Gallery Paris
Pandan Gallery Moscow
Paperworks Gallery Moscow
PARTner Gallery Moscow
Polina Lobachevskaya Gallery Moscow
Popoffart Gallery Moscow
RadioArteMobile Gallery Roma
Ravenscourt Gallery
Rebecca Hossack Gallery
Regina Gallery Moscow
Riga Gallery Riga
Roza Azora Gallery Moscow
RuArts Foundation Moscow
Stefan Stux Gallery New York
Sterkh Gallery Surgut
Volker Diehl Gallery Berlin
Vostochnaya Gallery Moscow
VP-Studio Moscow
WAM Gallery Moscow
Wetterling Gallery Stockholm
XL-Gallery Moscow
Yakut Gallery Moscow
ZECH Gallery Kiev
Zvono Gallery Belgrad
In the frame of ART MOSCOW art fair they have planned a number of dedicated events as well as exhibitions and special projects.
Kommunalka (Shared Appartments). Seven famous Russian artists will share one apartment during the work of the fair. Living together they will have to fulfill a series of incentive tasks targeted at releasing their creative resources and liberating them as individuals. For several days they will be “cut off from the world” in the Central House of Artists, the most appropriate space for artists. As in any other self-esteemed reality-show they will be visited by famous guests, and every day the stringent jury (including guests of the fair) will come to a decision “who of the inhabitants must leave the project.”
Shargorod. The First Landing. The exhibition shows selected works of the art created during the Art-Mestechko/Shargorod International Festival of Modern Art that was held in a small provincial town Shargorod in the Ukraine in August 2006. The Festival was interesting first and foremost as regards its genre that could be named as “the art descent genre.” It had a new and interesting form of a street festival incidentally making the town citizens both spectators and subjects of modern art. From this point of view the phenomenon of the Shargorod Festival went far beyond familiar and dull “field exhibition” practice and became the manifestation of a new variant or rather a new format of public art becoming a bold attempt to comprehend and express the substance of the provincial town milieu the popular capital art is unfamiliar with.
Igor’s Mania. Glyuklya and Tsaplya. The Found Clothes Factory. In 2007, Glyuklya and Tsaplya, women artists from Saint Petersburg and participants in the Factory of Found Clothes Project, became winners of the Black Square, a national modern art award. Their film “Three Mothers and Children's Choir” cut to the hearts of the most jury members. The art of TV “documentality”, that has successfully disarmed not to say eliminated quite a number of works of art in recent years, was overcome for the benefit of high theatricality and thanks to that art survived in this case. In Igor’s Mania, their new project, that Glyuklya and Tsaplya present at ART MOSCOW; the artists continue to work with the art of “documentality”. Glyuklya and Tsaplya say: “This exhibition is a portrait of aberration. The aberration that there is no equality in relations among people. If there is no understanding there is no pleasure in recognizing ourselves in other people, there is no pleasure of understanding that we are different, there is no justice and there is no love. Such a nightmare comes from time to time to all of us living on earth when we hide ourselves in the corner, lock our room and then it becomes impossible to move to eternal life.”
Beyond the Sound. This project is the result of artist Yuri Kalendarev’s work with “granite, environmental art and light projects - Sound Plates. The visual effect of the sculpture becomes in this project an insignificant aspect compared with the "hidden voice"of the reverberant sculpture. In a sense these sounding sculptures are just “devices” to listen to silence. Their substance transcends the Sound and people cooperating with them broaden their consciousness.”
And Just Enjoy Being/Meat. Installations and performances of French artist Tristan Favre and Russian artists Ivan Razumov and Dmitry Fine are an interaction of the sculpture composition and the sound. Tristan Favre’s project is a composition with a hundred plates illustrating mass culture in France. The plates are very well suited to demonstrate likes and dislikes of particular society. They are also used to preserve the precious image because of their decorative style and historical aspect, they depict political views and they are souvenirs keeping reminiscences as well.
Press conference: May 16, 2 p.m., Press Center of the CHA
Official opening: May 16, 4 p.m.
Working hours: May 16, 4 p.m. – 9 p.m.,
May 17 – 20, 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Central House of Artists
Krymskiy val 10 - Moscow