September 21 through 25, the International Art Fair ART MOSCOW which is the principal annual event on the Russian art market focusing on contemporary actual art will be held at the Central House of Artists.
ART MOSCOW welcomes over 25,000 visitors from all over the world every year. The audience of the Fair consists of collectors, artists, representatives of Russian and foreign museums, sponsors, art dealers, critics, journalists, and other connoisseurs of actual art.
Careful selection of fair participants is a strong tradition resulting from the efforts of the professional Expert Council, with such members as Josef Backstein (Russia), Marat Guelman (Russia), Hans Knoll (Austria), Aidan Salakhova (Russia), Elena Selina (Russia) and Christina Steinbrecher (Germany). This year, the Expert Council has also been joined by European experts Rachael Barrett (UK) and Anne Maier (Germany).
This year, ART MOSCOW celebrates its 15th anniversary. Over 50 Russian and foreign galleries (as of the middle of July 2011) will bring artistic objects to exhibit at the fair; many of the galleries will participate in the main programme of the fair for the first time, among them Black Square Gallery (New York, USA), N&N Aman Gallery (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Salon Vert (London, UK), Wilde Gallery (Berlin, Germany), Nadja Brykina Gallery (Zurich, Switzerland), Anca Poterasu Gallery (Bucharest, Romania), Adora Calvo (Salamanca, Spain), Collage Habana (Habana, Cuba), Gagliardi Art System (Turin, Italy), Temnikova & Kasela Gallery (Tallinn, Estonia), Alma Gallery (Riga, Latvia), Kyiv Fine Art (Kiev, Ukraine), Kultproekt (Moscow, Russia), Green Art (Perm, Russia), Art-Kasha (Moscow, Russia).
Restructuring of the display area is an important change to be implemented this year. Going by international experience, ART MOSCOW has offered its participants a system of equal exposition stands, so the space of the fair will look different this time.
Owing to certain historical factors, ART MOSCOW is more than just a fair; it is an institute reflecting changes in the field of contemporary art in Russia; therefore, the organizers can speak not only about the art market but about art trends in general, as well.
This year, September will be a month of art in the capital of Russia, this due to multiple prominent events in the field of contemporary art. It is wonderful that so many significant events will be occurring at the same time. Thus, besides the anniversary ART MOSCOW fair, the 4th Moscow biennale of contemporary art will be held in the capital from September 23 to October 30 (opening on September 22). Moscow is going the right way, placing the most outstanding contemporary art events within the same timeframe and creating a comfortable environment facilitating long-term business partnerships.
ART MOSCOW is not limited to galleries alone; personal expositions will also be arranged. This year, photographic works by Jeff Cohen, objects by Zinaida Likhacheva, exhibition by Vitas Stasyunas and a 3D project run by Lisa Plavinskaya will be presented at the fair.
The programme of the fair is expected to include a set of lectures on contemporary art theory and research (by professors of the British Higher School of Art & Design), screening of movies directed by Jason Underhill and creative workshops and seminars by prominent people of art from Los Angeles and London.
Along with the main exposition to be hosted by the Central House of Artists, ART MOSCOW will offer a rich concurrent programme involving various venues of the city. The main exposition will be accompanied by vernissages at art galleries, museum exhibitions and special projects. The list of participants and events of the concurrent programme will be available on the official web site of ART MOSCOW fair in August 2011.
Organized by:
EXPO-PARK EXHIBITION PROJECTS
Venue: Central House of Artists (Krymskiy Val 10, Moscow)
Preview: 20.09.2011
Press conference: 20.09.2011 (at 4 pm)
Opening hours: 21/09 2pm-8pm, 22/09-24/09 10am-8pm, 25/09 10am-6pm
New Culture Festival: 21 – 25.09.2011
4th Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art - Opening: 22.09.2011
SPECIAL PROJECTS ART MOSCOW 2011
PARALLAX OF GOOD AND EVIL. DUALISM OF VOLUME CONSTRUCTION
Curator: Liza Plavinskaya
Hall 14b
International art-groups of artists who experiment with valent correlations of space optics and contemporary philosophy. The leaders of Russian 3D art-space participate in the project - Lidiya Vitkovskaya, Denis Mikhailov, Evgeny Kalachev.
Parallax – a conception of images shift in a stereo pair that the depth of synthetic 3D space depends upon. Parallax can be direct and reverse, consequently the notions of “+” and “-” can be considered equally creative, the fact that from the civilizational values point of view allows us to bring back the faith in the global world balance of good and evil.
ArtMoth. VITAS STASUNAS
Curator: Maria Chuikova
Hall 11
Installation by Vitas Stasunas is devoted to a city theme. In the project the works from the different exhibitions connected with the image of apartments, garages, cars, roads and factories will be presented. Braided by a rope city landscape with houses, garages, inscriptions and the wires leaving in pictures, installation shows the eternal Russian theme of road.
KITCHEN-LABORATORY BY RAPHAEL RENO
Curator: Ekaterina Iragi
Hall 12
Settled down in territory of cafe Raphael Reno's project is concentrated to research of different industrial spaces. His painting represents different kinds of infinite open spaces where wires, pipes and ventilating hatches, intertwining and being greased, to edges fill a cloth. Surrounding territory of consumption of food this hyper realistic abstraction gets sense of laboratory, a place where constantly there is the most important mechanical and infinite process.
INSIGHT. JEFF COWEN
Curator: Eric Schlosser
Hall 15 (vip lounge)
Jeff Cowen will be presented for the first time in Russia during the ART MOSCOW fair. Cowen´s photographic process is atypical in conventional photography. One senses a strong influence of his early years in academic drawing and painting in his images. The artist’s approach is not only photographic but painterly, cinematic and sculptural. His method and physical intervention with chemical attacks, tearing, taping, painterly traces and mark making on a thick wavy paper challenge the tradition of photography generating unique, enduring, and powerfully emotive images.
TRANSLATE/TRANSCRIBE
Curator: Ian Gonczarow
Hall 21 (2 floor)
The exhibition of young and emerging artists from UK will be the first show of its kind highlighting new ways in which orthodoxy and acceptability may be challenged. It brings together artists whose work includes installation, painting, video and sculpture. (Roisin Byrne, Adam Thompson, Gorka Mohamed, Benjamin Jenner, Fiona Curran, Darren Banks, Trevor Kiernander, Jason Underhill, System House, Charlotte Warne Thomas, James Ferris, Leanne Bell Gonczarow, Ian Gonczarov.
TADJIKS-ART
Curator: Kirill Shamanov
Oval Hall
«Tadzhiks’ art» is a group of St. Petersburg artists who became famous for imitation of performances of Marina Abramovich and Jonanatan Meese, Santiago Sierra and Joko Ono, as well as bio-copying of canvases of American expressionists. «Tadzhik’s art» will present new program of installations and performances on anniversary ART MOSCOW. Intellectuals from St. Petersburg with the help of specially employed migrant workers will imitate the works created by famous politicians and show business’ stars at charitable auction. The work by Vladimir Putin "Pattern" (it was sold for 37 million rubles), "Blizzard" by is Valentina Matvienko (was sold for 17 million rubles) and repainted photo of Dmitry Medvedev (was sold for 51 million rubles and became one of the most expensive photos in the world) are expected to be an absolute furor.
