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Photos from the exhibition...
 Date: February 21 - March 31, 2007
Project management: Ekaterina Cultural Foundation
Project conceived by Ekaterina and Vladimir Semenikhin
Project curator: Alexandra Kharitonova
Primary sponsor: the «Stroyteks» Group of Companies
Place: Cultural Foundation «Ekaterina». 21/5 Kuznetsky Most, porch 8, entrance from Bolshaya Lubyanka street
«Movement. Evolution. Art.» was the first project launched in the new exhibition space of the Ekaterina Cultural Foundation.
The organizers of the Foundation started their collection about 10
years ago, and it now holds over 500 pieces of Russian art. Since 2004
they have been actively collecting works of Western artists, such as
Wesselmann, Rosenquist, Waldes, and Calder, to name just a few.
«Movement Evolution Art» embraced the period from 1916 to 2006, and it
was for the first time that this particular collection was presented to
the audience as a whole.
The
leitmotif of the exhibition was movement, a theme that is rightly
considered one of the backbones of the history of art in the twentieth
and twenty-first centuries. The exhibition demonstrated movement as it
is realized in painting, sculpture installations, objects, and video
art.
One of the first stiles
successfully evolving the idea of art was non-figurative art. Artists
developed new principles of special modeling by constructing dynamic
forms on the painting’s surface and creating works whose titles, such
as Painting Architectonics, Dimensional-Dynamic Construction, Suprematic Composition, Colourdynamic Tension - are the best evidence of the direction of their creative research.
The 1930s saw the climax of promotion of physical culture, mass sport
parades, demonstrations and marches. This was reflected in numerous
pieces of art created for the International Exhibition in Paris in
1937. Nowadays the Ekaterina Cultural Foundation presents a panel by
Alexander Samokhvalov Soviet PhysEd specially created for the given exhibition.
Later on the Soviet ideology became the theme and matter of many
unofficial soviet artists’ works. «Sots» Art ironically played with the
plastic formulae of Soviet Art both in paintings and sculptures.
Alexander Kosolapov quotes the movement motif of the famous sculptural
group The Worker and the Kolkhoz Woman by Vera Mukhina that
was placed on the roof of the Soviet pavilion at the Moscow Exhibition
Centre, while Leonid Sokov creates a meeting of a Lenin Monument and a
sculpture by Jacometti. In 1960s and 1970s there emerged new unofficial
artists striving to find new creative language. They tried to establish
their own creative credo and develop a new art system that would be
based on the national avant-garde tradition combined with some traits
of the Western post-war art life. Those were the artists of the
so-called ‘ Lianozovo School’ (Lidya Masterkova, Dmitry Plavinsky), of
the ‘ Sretensky Boulevard’ group (Viktor Pivovarov, Edward Steinberg,
Vladimir Yankilevsky, Mikhail Schwarzman), and others. There appeared
not only art theories but also certain religious, mystical, and
metaphysical teachings. The idea of movement as a biological phenomenon
was developed in Ulo Sooster’s paintings. The group ‘Movement’ was
created in 1962 by several «kinetists» headed by Francisco Infante.
The decade from 1990 to 2000 was notably full of events that brought
about essential changes in public life and on the artistic scene. The
information about international art and culture became available and
western curators started visiting Russia, there appeared the art market
and a chance of integration into the contemporary art world.
The theme of movement has become extremely relevant to contemporary art
to give rise to entirely new forms: the installation, the object, and
video art. Artists are now in contact with mass culture as well as mass
media texts, socio-historical and biological theories. Art itself is
being transformed into a global futurist concept – a good example of
this transformation is set by Oleg Kulik’s project Museum, paintings by Vladimir Dubosarsky and Alexander Vinogradov, sculptures by Sergey Shekhovtsev.
Painters:
Lyubov Popova, Varvara Stepanova, Aleksandr Tyshler, Samuil Adlivankin,
Alexander Samokhvalov, Lidiya Masterkova, Ulo Sooster, Erik Bulatov,
Francisco Infante-Arana, Viktor Pivovarov, Dmitry Plavinskiy, Mikhail
Schwarzman, Edward Steinberg, Vladimir Yankilevskiy, Leonid Purygin,
Leonid Sokov, Alexander Kosolapov, Semyon Faibisovich, Tatyana
Badanina, Andrey Bartenev, Sergey Bratkov, Sergey Bugaev –Afrika,
Georgy Guryanov, Ulrich Witensborg, Filipp Ramett, Vladimir Dubosarskiy
and Alexander Vinogradov, Larisa Zvezdochetova-Rezun, Vitaly Komar and
Aleksandr Melamid, Valery Koshlyakov, Oleg Kulik, Tony Matelli, Pavel
Pepperstein, Sergey Mironenko, Timur Novikov, Nikola Ovchinnikov,
Vasily Tsagolov, Ilya Chichkan, Kerim Ragimov, James Rosenquist, Aidan
Salakhova, Blue Noses group, Andrey Filippov, Sergey Shekhovtsov,
Viktor Alimpiev.
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