Special Project for the Biennial Celebration of Modern Art

Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Museum of Modern Art. Department of Work and Employment. The purpose of this project is to trace the history of labour in Soviet and post-Soviet art from industrial to non-material forms from the 1960's through to the first decade of this century and to show how attitudes towards work and representation of labour have changed in the development of new artists.

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Curators: Kirill Svetlyakov and Sofia Terekhov

Members: Konstantin Adger , Yuri Albert , Nadezhda Anfalova , Mary Arendt, Michael Alshibaya , Natalia Arendt , Vladimir Arkhipov, Ivan Brazhkin, Sergei Bratkov, Dmitry Demsky , Olga Efimova , Arseny Jiliaev , Vadim Zakharov , Natalia Zintsova , Maxim Iliukhin , Yakov Kazhdan, Irina Korina , Taisa Korotkov , Kirill Kto , Andrei Kuz'kin , Vlad Kulkov , Mikhail Lilov, Diana Machulina , Alexander Melamid , Roman Mokrov, Anton Ol’shvang , Anatoly Osmolovsky , Arkady Petrov, Nikolai Polissky , Alexander Povzner , Andrey Prigov , Maxim Rohan , Anastasia Ryabov , Salah Tahir , Haim Sokol , Alexander Sokolov , Vitas Stasyunas , Rostan Tavasiev , Olga and Oleg Tatarintseva , Avdei Ter - Oganyan , Anna Titova, Ilya Trushevsky , Victor Umnov , Olga Chernysheva , Anton Chumak , Stas Shuripa and Vlad Yurashko. Also the following groups: "Art Business Consulting ", "Recycle ", "Nest ", “Anonymous and Free Art ", " ZIP ", “Collective Action , "Where are the Dogs Going?”, "Soap ", “The New Idiots” and "What Should We Do?”

The purpose of this project is to trace the history of labour in Soviet and post-Soviet art from industrial to non-material forms from the 1960’s through to the first decade of this century and to show how attitudes towards work and representation of labour have changed in the development of new artists. Ultimately, by looking retrospectively at the subject of labour, we can define the different types of artistic patterns of artists in modern day society.

Works from the Soviet period, which are linked with the tradition of the ‘severe style’ are displayed in the historical section of the exhibition, along with mock ups and a demo board which were created by artists from the Zhukovsky Central Aerodynamic Institute at various periods in time. They are compared with works from modern artists who tackle industrial and manufacturing themes in modern times. Meanwhile the 1970’s and 1980’s will be represented in the context of photo essays on Communist ‘subbotniks’ (voluntary community working Saturdays) taken from the photo archives of the Tretyakov Gallery.

A programme will be running during the exhibition which will deal with the problem of finding work for creative individuals which will organised by Alexander Melamid, a modernist artist from the Institute of Re-training. The programme, which is co-organised by the Institute of Problems of Modern Art, will invite artists to re-train as domestic plumbers under the supervision of a qualified professional.

A special section of the exhibition will be dedicated to the problems that artists face of quitting the artistic profession. It will also tackle the problem that professionals such as surgeons, physicists and biologists have of breaking into it. This section will show how the ‘artists’ and ‘non-artists’ work together to evaluate new methods of developing art.

Tretyakov Gallery
10, Krymsky Val, Moscow, Russia, 117049
Opening times:
daily from 10.00 am – 07.30 pm
ticket office until 06.30 pm
last admission 06.30 pm
day-off Monday
Admission:
Adults – 360 RUB
Students – 220 RUB

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Special Project for the Biennial Celebration of Modern Art
dal 23/9/2013 al 29/3/2014