15 April 2013
Innovation 2012: winners’ awarding
At the ceremony of awarding the winners of the VIII All-RussianContemporary Visual Art Competition “Innovation” the best art projects of the past year were announced. On April 9, the Manezh central exhibition hall housed artists, art experts, supervisors and people interested in what is going on in the Russian contemporary art.
The main feature of this competition was the composition of the winners: for the first time most of the nominees as well as the winners were not from Moscow. The main prize wasn’t won by Moscow, either — the “Work of Visual Art” award went to the PROVMYZA group from Nizhny Novgorod for the Marevo (Haze Heat) opera.
The competition is organized with the financial assistance of the UNIDENT group of companies, Cultural Beneficent Foundation U-Art: You and Art is a project co-organizer.
U-Art: You and Art annually awards one of the competition participants with a special prize. This year the prize was awarded for Andrey Erofeev’s exhibition project “Leonid Sokov. Angle of View”. Leonid Sokov’s exhibition in MMOMA unveiled the main stages of Leonid Sokov’s artistic evolution from 1970 to 2010, by illustrating it with 130 works from numerous private and museum collections from different parts of the world. Most of the artist’s works, primarily paintings, have never been exhibited in Moscow.
The name of Leonid Sokov is closely connected with the history of the social art movement, whose icon was Sokov’s sculptural signs dialogues. Sokov brought tête-à-tête different images of the Soviet and Western civilizations. Works combining Marilyn Monroe with Stalin, Giacometti’s Walking Man with a Lenin monument, a national toy with an imperial emblem, embodied the geopolitical conflict of the cultures of the XX century, the split mentality and “double think” of modern man, whichever political system he belongs to. Sokov is one of the founders of the contemporary post-modernist sculpture.
22 April 2013
In St. Petersburg is opening the exhibition the II Photobiennale of The Russian Museum
22 November 2012
October 25 through November 12, Moscow welcomed
Vivacello International Cello Festival which traditionally enjoyed great success. The best concert venues of the capital city threw open their doors for musicians from across the world and for the appreciative Moscow audience. Each concert was unique and could evoke interest among the most different public.
22 October 2012
An exhibition of People’s Artist Evgeny Zevin, organized with the assistance of U-Art Fund and UNIDENT Group of Companies, has been inaugurated in Saint Petersburg, in the Marble Palace halls.
The artist participated already in the very first initiatives of Moscow nonconformists and this review display includes some rare canvases. The exhibition is to be visited till January 16.
04 May 2012
The all-Russian competition in the area of the modern visual art Innovation has marked its end. The main prize in the nomination A Work of Visual Art has been awarded to the project of Alexander Brodsky Cisterna. And a special prize of the U-Art: You and Art fund went to Olga Shishko for the research dedicated to the issue of crossing of the modern visual art and cinema spaces.
04 May 2012
The all-Russian competition in the area of the modern visual art Innovation has marked its end. The main prize in the nomination A Work of Visual Art has been awarded to the project of Alexander Brodsky Cisterna. And a special prize of the U-Art: You and Art fund went to Olga Shishko for the research dedicated to the issue of crossing of the modern visual art and cinema spaces.
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