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28/4/2009

Two exhibitions

Moscow Museum of Modern Art - Petrovka, Moscow

Andrey Dillendorf
Sculpture. Graphics

Moscow Museum of Modern Art opens a solo exhibition of sculptor Andrey Dillendorf, master of decorative symbolic forms and unexpected spatial decisions. The display unites sculptures and graphic works by the artist.

Andrey Dillendorf’s sculptural products, usually small in size, executed in plaster or bronze, are full of severity and monumentality. The intense and expressive forms of his works speak about the influence Henry Moore and Hans Arp, and the conceptual approach to form reminds of Cubism and the oeuvre of Konstantin Brancusi. However, it would be wrong to name Andrey Dillendorf as the successor of any master or a trend: making use of experience of his great predecessors, the master creates his own language of a sculpture.

Filled with sense, the works of Andrey Dillendorf reflect not perceptible objects, but rather certain abstract essences, embodied in extremely concentrated form. Avoiding superfluous detail, the sculptor aspires to transfer images and ideas in their primordial pureness. The master usually works with integral spatial blocks and considerably generalises nature to almost abstract geometrical forms. The peculiar sensation of severity and dispassionateness causes the associations with the art of antiquity.

The pressed plasticity of the sculptural language does not disappear in graphic works by the artist — on the contrary, on the paper surface, this feature of his approach becomes even more obvious. Many graphic sheets, which the author names as sketches, actually seem to be quite finished artistic products. Dillendorf’s drawings make an impression that artists understands the whole being as a certain huge tangible block that can be dissected into components, that develops in space and receives sculptural volumes. This speculative materialization is exactly what Andrey Dillendorf’s creative method consists in.

Curriculum vitae

Andrey Dillendorf was born on May 13th, 1936 in Moscow. In 1957, he graduated from the Kalinin Moscow Art Industrial School, and in 1963 — the Surikov Moscow State Art Institute. Since 1968, he is member of the Moscow Union of Artists. Andrey Dillendorf’s works are conserved in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, in a number of Russian state museums, as well as in private collections in Russia, the USA, Canada, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, and other countries.

Selected exhibitions:

1978 — International exhibition (Philadelphia, USA)
1985, 1991 — Baltic Republics Quadriennale (Riga, Fine Arts Museum)
1994 — Group exhibition of painting and sculpture (Moscow Union of Artists)
1995 — "Postmodernism and Russian tradition" (Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery)
1996 — Chicago Art Institute (USA)
2000 — "Russia. The 20th century" (Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery)
2003 — "So, Dear Friends" (Moscow, Sakharov Museum and Public Centre)
2002 — "Art of the 60s" (Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery)
2005 — Group exhibition at Zurab Tsereteli Gallery of Arts (Moscow)
2005 — "Between Subject and Abstraction" (Moscow, "Belyaevo" Exhibition Hall)
2006 — "Five + One" (Moscow Museum of Modern Art)
2007 — "The Emergency Exit" (Moscow, A3 Gallery)

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Kirill Danelia
The Greatest Hits

"The Greatest Hits" exhibition held in the eight halls of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art will feature more than 70 works and objects by Kirill Danelia from public and private collections. These works are from "New York Subway", "Nocturne de NYC", "Due Limits", "Chairs" and other series. The first exhibition by the artist was held in 1989, so this is an anniversary show – 20 years later.
The son of a famous filmmaker, he went to study directing at the Moscow Art Theatre School. This beginning did not lead him to the world of theatre and cinema, but allowed him to follow his own artistic path early. An artist and a successful gallerist, professional tattooist, fascinated by American cars of the 1950s and Harley Davidson motorcycles, a bourgeois and a father, Kirill Danelia is a man of versatile creativity, which determined the key meridians of his life.

Danelia reinvents the traditional genre of still life. He creates a unique marvelous world using absolutely mundane functional things, like billiards, frames of musical instruments, records, burnt coffee pots, chairs, tins, old playing cards or match boxes. Devoid of their materiality, objects turn into symbols, they acquire "a nostalgic aura". Time and memory are the artist’s important motifs; the artist looks for old and dusty remnants of the "temps perdue" at flea markets, auction houses, and antique stores all over the world.
The memory of objects and their timeless dialogues in the works by Kirill Danelia allude to the art of Robert Rauschenberg and artists of the Lianosovo group. As the artist puts is, his dearest image is "that of a Moscow kitchen. That’s where Soviet pop-art originated. And we, all of us, come from there. There were times when we all lived in those stereotypes…"
Personal shows by Kirill Danelia were held in Moscow and other Russian cities, in the USA, Switzerland, UK, and Ireland. His works are held in the collections of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the State Tretyakov Gallery, Ivanovo Regional Art Museum, Tver Regional Picture Gallery, and many private collections all over the world.

As part of "The Greatest Hits" exhibition project, a catalogue of selected works by Kirill Danelia will be issued.

Solo exhibitions of Kirill Danelia:
1991 – Storm Group Collection (London, UK)
1992 – RHA Gallery (Dublin, Ireland)
– Storm Group Collection (London, UK)
1994 – "Vmeste" Gallery (Moscow, Russia)
1995 – "Pan-Dan" Gallery (Moscow, Russia)
1996 – "Nashe Nasledie" Publishing House (Moscow, Russia)
– "Pan-Dan" Gallery (Moscow, Russia)
1997 – Central House of Artists (Moscow, Russia)
1998 – Manege Exhibition Hall (Moscow, Russia)
1999 – Grant Gallery (New York, USA)
– "Pan-Dan" Gallery (Moscow, Russia)
2000 – Grant Gallery (New York, USA)
– "Pan-Dan" Gallery (Moscow, Russia)
– Peace and Colour Gallery (London, UK)
– Tver Regional Picture Gallery (Tver, Russia)
– Ivanovo Regional Art Museum (Ivanovo, Russia)
2001 – Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Moscow, Russia)
2002 – Gallery MARTin (Sissach, Switzerland)
2006 – "Pan-Dan" Gallery (Moscow, Russia)

The Greatest Hits project is supported by Arbat Capital

Image: Kirill Danelia

Contacts for the press:
Press office of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art: pr@mmoma.ru, (+7 495) 694 6660
Kirill Danelia Gallery: (+7 495) 691 9176, 695 3397, http://www.fcg.ru
Valeria Gallai: +7 915 163 3360, valery94@gmail.com (PR support, illustrations claim, organization of interviews)

Opening: April 29, 7pm

Moscow Museum of Modern Art
25, Petrovka Street - Moscow
Open: Mon-Sun 12:00-20:00 (ticket office open till 19:15)
The Museum is closed last Monday of each month

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