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Russian Art
News - 2006-2008
Moscow - New York = Parallel Play. From the
Kolodzei Art Foundation Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art.
Chelsea Art Museum - Home of the Miotte Foundation, 556 West
22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, February 22 - May 17, 2008.
Opening reception Wednesday, February 27, 6-9PM. click
here for the press-release or visit http://chelseaartmuseum.org/.
National Center for
Contemporary Art (NCCA), Zoologicheskaya 13, Moscow,
from October 16 to November 11, 2007. (click
here for press-release in Russian language)
Moscow - New York = Parallel Play: Selections from the
Kolodzei Art Foundation Collection of Russian and Eastern
European Art was shown at the National Centre for
Contemporary Arts in Moscow in 2007 and, with its opening in
New York, forms an art-meeting of the visual cultures. The
exhibition highlights the artistic axis of the two cities,
representing Russian artists living or working in these two
art capitals and creating with their art an international
context and distinctive intellectual plastic Russian
"rhyme" in the art community. The works reflect the
major current of Russian culture and describe the history of
art processes and movements from the 1960s to the present. Moscow
- New York = Parallel Play is a follow up to From
Leningrad to St. Petersburg: Selections from the Kolodzei
Collection, exhibited in 2003-04 at the Chelsea Art Museum
in honor of the 300th Anniversary of the founding of St.
Petersburg. There are 100 works by sixty artists presented in
the show, including Petr Belenok, Eric Bulatov, Oleg
Vassiliev, Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin, Vagrich
Bakhchanyan, Ilya Kabakov, Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid,
Leonid Lamm, Francisco Arana Infante, Dmitri Krasnopevtsev, Anatolii
Slepyshev, Vladimir Nemukhin, Dmitri Plavinsky, Oscar Rabin,
Eduard Shteinberg, Shimon Okshteyn, Natalia Nesterova, Olga Bulgakova, Igor
Novikov, Valery Koshlyakov, Asya
Dodina, Slava Polishchuk, Alexander
Zakharov, Sviatoslav Ponomarev, Tatiana
Antoshina.
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Kolodzei Foundation and Russian art.
Olga
Bulgakova and Alexander Sitnikov. Paintings.
Objects. State
Russian Tretyakov Gallery, Krymsky Val 10, Moscow, November 2
- 25, 2007. Opening reception on November 1 at 4 PM.. For more
information visit www.tretyakov.ru
Olga Bulgakova and Alexander
Sitnikov belong to the generation of artists beginning in the
1970s. Their
works have been exhibited widely in Russia, Europe and the
United States and are in
the permanent collections of major museums, including the
State Russian Museum
and the State Tretyakov Gallery. This is the first joint
retrospective exhibition for the couple. In conjunction with
this exhibition, Olga
Bulgakova (ISBN: 9780975482964) and Alexander
Sitnikov (ISBN: 9780975482988) have been published in both
English and Russian languages. These books include essays by
Alexander Borovsky, Barbara Thiemann, Natalia Kolodzei,
Alexander Rozhin and Natalia Sitnikova.
Shimon
Okshteyn. Dialogue with Objects. Contemporary Art
Center MARS (Pushkarev Pereulok 5, Moscow) from May 17 to June
10, 2007.
The exhibition Shimon Okshteyn. Dialogue with Objects
is traveling to the State Russian Museum (Marble Palace,
Millionnaya str., 5/1, Saint Petersburg) from July 26,
2007 to September 3, 2007. Opening reception on July 26 at 4
PM.
Modern
and Contemporary - Russian Art Week in London– Public
Lecture: Natalia
Kolodzei, the Executive Director of the Kolodzei Art
Foundation, New Jersey, and owner of the Kolodzei Collection
of Russian and Eastern European Art,
spoke on Trends in Russian Art
following Perestroika on Tuesday, February 13,
2007 at Sotheby’s,
34–35 New Bond Street, London
Vadim
Voinov. The State Hermitage under a Full Moon. General
Staff Building, the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
October 25, 2005 - April 24, 2006.
The exhibition has been
organized by The State Hermitage Museum, in the collaboration
with the Kolodzei Art Foundation (USA), Atellier II Gallery of
Art (Moscow), Kultur Kontakt Foundation
(Vienna, Austria), Pechatny Dvor Printers (St. Petersburg), Dean Publishers (St. Petersburg) and Free Culture Foundation (St. Petersburg).
Vadim Voinov was born
1940 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) and lives and works in
St. Petersburg. In his works, Voinov uses a
technique he himself created--functional collage--intended to
reconstruct the history of Czarist, revolutionary, Soviet and
contemporary Russia.
In the 1960’s and 1970’s Voinov studied the history
of early
St. Petersburg
architecture.
An art historian himself, he published articles and
undertook archeological expeditions.
His devotion to archeology and understanding of the
significance of each object introduced into his work a
historical significance. He
developed functional collage beginning in 1979.
The objects used in Voinov’s works acquire a new
historical meaning. Voinov’s
works are laconic in their composition.
For this installation Voinov chose the unrenovated
interiors of the General Staff Building on Palace Square
.
The exhibition consists of collages and installations
made of authentic found objects on themes connected with the
newest history of Russia .
There are 73 works represented in the exhibition,
installed in five rooms. Each
group of collages and separate installations are thematically
connected and titled: Red
Wall; Circle-The father of a square; The
Viennese Set; and others. The installation of the
exhibition is an artwork in itself.
The catalogue for the exhibition includes 17 essays with 110
illustrations. Each
copy of the catalogue is marked by an original, unique object:
a stamp from the 1920’s-1940’s with the image of a soldier
(“Voinov” can be translated into English as
“soldier”). The
catalogue is published in Russian and English.
For
more information visit: www.hermitagemuseum.org
Works on Paper: Soviet and Russian Art 1955-2005 from the
Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art.
Brooklyn
College of the City University of New York, 2900 Bedford
Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. January 18 - March 31, 2006.
Curatorial Talk and reception on Tuesday, February 28, 2006
from 5:30 to 7:30 PM.
Historic
MADI: Its Roots. Artists from Russia through Uruguay to
Argentina in 20th Century. MADI Museum, 3109 Carlisle
Street, Dallas, Texas. The opening reception on Friday,
February 17, 2006 from 5:30 to 8:00 PM.
Lecture: Wednesday, May 3, 2006 7:00 p.m.
and Thursday, May 4, 2006 at noon
Lectures are free. Optional lunch $7.00 Tatiana Kolodzei and
her daughter, Natalia Kolodzei, will talk about the challenges
of collecting art during the Communist era. The Kolodzeis have
published four books on Russian art and were recently named by
Art and Antiques as among the top
100 collections in the United States. The collection started
40 years ago in Moscow at the height of the Cold War and now
contains more than 7,000 works by over 300 artists. Many of
the works in the Kolodzei Collection are by
"Non-Conformist" artists trained in top art schools
but who followed their own paths rather than that imposed by
the State. For
more information visit: www.madimuseumdallas.org
Moscow
Grafika: Artists' Prints 1961
– 2005. Selections from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian
and Eastern European Art. September
13- October 22, 2005
at the International Print Center New York, 526 West 26th Street. The
Opening Reception will be held on Thursday, September 22nd,
6-8 p.m. For more information click
here (Adobe Reader required)
Artists
represented in Moscow Grafika include Yuri Albert,
Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Farid Bogdalov, Grisha Bruskin, Andrei
Budaev, Olga Bulgakova, Ivan Chuikov, Andrei Filippov, Valeryi
Gerlovin, Marina Gertsovskaia, Eduard Gorokhovsky, Ilya
Kabakov, Marina Karpova, Komar & Melamid, Otari Kandaurov,
Alexander Kosolapov, Lev Kropivnitsky, Valentina
Kropivnitskaia, Leonid Lamm, Georgy Litichevsky, Igor
Makarevich, Sergei Mironenko, Mikhail Molochnikov, Ernst
Neizvestny,Victor Pivovarov, Dmitri Plavinsky, Oscar Rabin,
Mikhail Roginsky, Scherer & Ouporov, Alexandre Sitnikov,
Natalia Sitnikova Yuri Sobolev, Leonid Sokov, Marina
Telepneva, Oleg Tselkov, Oleg Vassiliev, Vladimir Yankilevsky
and Alexander Zakharov.
International Print Center, New York is located in Chelsea on 26th Street
between 10th
and 11th Avenues at
526 West
26th Street, Room 824.
Hours are 11- 6 p.m.,
Tuesday-Saturday. For additional
information call (212) 989-5090 or visit IPCNYs website
www.ipcny.org
The exhibition was also presented at Russian
Nights Festival in Los Angeles.
Perestroika + 20:
Selections from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and
Eastern European Art. Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 420 West 118 Street, 12th floor,
New York . September 28 to January 2006. Gallery Talk by Natalia
Kolodzei, followed by a reception on Thursday, November 10
from 6-8 PM.
The exhibition Perestroika + 20: Selections from the
Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art
features works by 21 artists from Russia. The works
selected for the show construct a cultural image of Russia
in the last 20
years by presenting work by a wide range of artistic trends.
Artists represented in Perestroika +20 include: Komar
& Melamid, Eric Bulatov, Oleg Vassiliev, Natalia Nesterova,
Tatyana Nazarenko, Eduard Shteinberg, Vladimir Nemukhin, Leonid
Borisov
, Olga Bulgakova, Marina Karpova, Marina Kolotvina, Valentina
Lebedeva, Tatiana Levitskaia, Valerii Pianov, Alexander Sitnikov, Vladimir
Ovchinnikov, Farid Bogdalov, Dimitry Gerrman, Vladimir
Kanevsky, Alexander Kozhin,
Alexander Ney, and Oleg Slepov.
For more information visit www.columbia.edu/cu/sipa/REGIONAL/HI/
For more information on
the Kolodzei Art Foundation's past events and exhibitions please
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