Moscow - is a modern city center, actively uses all the achievements of civilization and democracy.She actively supports, promotes and develops all kinds of art.One of these sites, which demonstrates its objects, is the Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Petrovka, 25.
Personal Collection
In Russia, it is the first state museum specializing exclusively on the art of the twentieth - the beginning of XI century.The museum was opened in late 1999, its founder and director was Zurab Tsereteli.Personal collection consists of 2 thousand works of famous artists of the twentieth century, it was she who became the basis for the museum's collection.Since that time, the museum fund is constantly replenished, and now it is one of the most extensive collections of Russian art of the past century.
Moscow Museum of Modern Art at Petrovka 25 is filled with contemporary artifacts, among which there are unexpected objects, such as a dark room with a three-liter jar.Artworks not only occupy the premises of the mansion, and the building's courtyard.Outside - mostly ideological mastermind of the museum works by Zurab Tsereteli.
returnees
Petrovka, 25, is a more traditional and classical Russian avant-garde art.Many of the works of local artists were purchased at auctions in Europe and the US, and then transferred to their homeland, they are now owned by private collectors.Avant-garde works of the last century are the core of the collection, the hallmarks of the Museum of Modern Art.Image Gallery includes paintings by Kazimir Malevich, Marc Chagall, Pavel Filonov, Natalia Goncharova and others, from the sculpture Ossip Zadkine, Alexander Archipenko.
contemporary artists
The museum houses a unique collection of works of Georgian primitivist Niko Pirosmani.A considerable section of the exhibition given to the work of non-conformists 60-80s: Ilya Kabakov, Anatoly Zverev, Vladimir Yakovlev, Vladimir Nemukhin, Vitaly Komar, Oscar Rabin, Leonid Shvartsman and others.
Museum of Modern Art at Petrovka 25, regularly updated its collection of works by his contemporaries, what makes an invaluable contribution to the development of modern art.Works by artists such as Boris Orlov, Dmitry Prigov, Valery Koshlyakov, Alexander Vinogradov, Oleg Kulikov Konstantin Stargazers, Andrey Bartenev, are included in the section of contemporary art.The exposition of contemporary art changes every six months, in contrast to the constant.
Educational activities
Museum of Modern Art at Petrovka 25 and is itself a forge of young creative people.It supports and engages young artists in demand today artistic direction.At the Museum of Contemporary Art organized by the school, which is called "Free Workshops".The course is designed for two years of study.It is aimed at the realization of creativity in the specific practice, and introduces children to the art market, new technologies in the visual arts forms, the problems of contemporary culture.
Petrovka, 25, invites children from 5 years, there operates an art studio called "Fantasy".For everyone organized lectures and workshops with curators, artists, researchers, art.
Affiliates
museum is located in an old mansion, designed by architect M. Kazakov for Urals industrialist, merchant Gubin (XVIII century).It is decorated in the traditions of Russian classicism, but at the entrance visitors will immediately notice the massive arch, indicating new appointment at home.
Moscow, Petrovka, 25 - the address of the parent body of the museum, but its composition has four branches, which are located on the Grand Georgian Street, 15, in Ermolaevsky Lane, 17, on Gogol Boulevard, 10, Tver, 9. The five-storey buildingYermolayevsky alley erected in the early twentieth century and was intended for the architectural community, then passed the Union of Artists, and in late 2003 opened here an exhibition hall of contemporary art.
room on Tverskoy Boulevard, about thirty years was the workshop of Zurab Tsereteli.In 2007, the gallery is created with the most modern masterpieces.House on Gogol Boulevard is an architectural monument of the XVIII century.It is built by the same architect that built a house to the merchant.Now it is a platform for international projects, symposia and conferences.Georgian street where the museum is located, is unique in that it exhibits can be put on the open area.
Connection ages
It would seem that two incompatible things - modern art and old mansions ... But the idea of the organizers relished, as it enables the modern art lovers to gain independence in the cultural space.Postmodernists believe that the classic material will play in a new way, if it is diluted with a modern aesthetic.And they are not wrong, relying on the connection eras - today their exhibition area are very popular in Moscow.
The head office and four branches held many thematic exhibitions of paintings and photos, they belong to the XX and XXI centuries.
Museum of Modern Art, the address of which you have seen, not only demonstrates the large-scale exhibitions in its halls are scientific conferences and symposiums.Also, there are thematic teams and sightseeing tours, cultural programs are organized for pupils and students.For preschoolers and primary school children worked as a lecturer.
