«Night at the Museum»: Tretyakov taken by storm
ARTinvestment.RU   23 мая 2008

Huge popularity enjoyed the museums and galleries in Moscow during the campaign «Night at the Museum», which took place on the night of 17 to 18 May

huge popularity enjoyed the museums and galleries in Moscow during the campaign «Night at the Museum», which took place on the night of 17 to 18 May - many fans and art lovers stood in a queue and arranged kilometer «cork» on approaches to buildings. Among the largest state museums boom witnessed in the Tretyakov Gallery - for the evening Saturday and Sunday the museum building in Lavrushinsky Lane and on the Crimean shaft visited about 17 thousand people.

«That boom, which occurred in Lavrushinsky was similar to the storming of the Winter - a line of wanting to get to the exhibition was from the entrance to the gallery is almost up to Great Ordynka», - told the RIA Novosti Deputy Director The State Tretyakov Gallery, Marina Elzesser.

«From the beginning of launch campaigns« Night at the Museum »in 18.30 and 22.00 to the main exhibit of classic Russian art and the pre-show auction house Christie's« Art prerafaelitov »could see 2.8 thousand persons, 800 came on the Crimean shaft view exposition «Golden fleece», - noted the Deputy Director galleries.

The next day, when work was done on a standard schedule, but the entrance to the gallery was also free to the museum came to 16 thousand visitors. Elzesser noted with regret that in the Tretyakov Gallery on Saturday evening could not get it all: in contrast to the municipal museum, which worked far into the night, the doors of federal museums were open to visitors until 22.00. She promised that next year at the Tretyakov Gallery event will be held so that the disaffected and willing to take the Tretyakov Gallery storm will not do.

The State Museum of Fine Arts Pushkin accurate numbers of visitors at the moment do not have, but their number is not less impressive than in the State Tretyakov Gallery. Wishing to see the exhibit was so much that the place has made a few revolutions around the museum building.

Skrashivalo weary minute meeting with the expectations of exhibitions «In my family» and «Antey» a statement by the symphony orchestra and soloists of the Bolshoi Theater - on the street in front of the main building was held presentation of the project «Art Tour». Under this project, the walls of houses in the city center of Moscow is already adorned with masterpieces from the collection of the Pushkin Museum in a specially constructed and placed in this frame of posters.

In the Historical Museum to take into account the experience of the shares in the past year - according to press secretary Gima Olga Bukowski, then «the museum casually wandered the crowds of visitors and no one could plainly did not consider». As a result, this year a few days before the shares in cash Gima received 1,5 thousand free tickets for Saturday evening. Thus, in the Museum were able to reach only those who planned his route on time «Night at the Museum» and took care of the entrance tickets in advance.

The municipal museums and private galleries have been the most visited in the course of action due to a variety of programs. Gallery has been under the impression of «Night at the Museum» and said that, for example, the Center for Contemporary Art «Winery» was similar to Hodynku. «Winery» became the most popular place during the «Night at the Museum» - here was organized by the music and the fire show, show video art, food and barbecue in the street were treated to a beer restaurant. Cork, leading to the 4 th Syromyatnichesky Lane, stretched for several kilometers: Thousands crowd of young people were forced to move to the hood of parked cars to get to the galleries.

«We assumed that if the Russian uvlekutsya modern art, then make it to the entire coil, but that« Night at the Museum »Hodynku in turn, did not expect anyone», - said the owner of the gallery «Atelier number 2 », located in the« Winery », Valeria Gorbova. She added that along with the merry crowd of young people who come mainly to dance and chat, «Winery» visited the famous antique capital, looking to contemporary art.

According to the curator of the gallery «PROUNI» Catherine Inozemtsev, in a small room, where hung exhibition Vladimir Bashlykova periodically fill more than one thousand people. «I had to run along the pictures and ask visitors not to touch their hands, do not hurt canvas backpacks», - she said.

Organizer project «Doutrart», brought together 50 galleries, Fedor Pavlov-Andreevich admitted that he did not expect such a buzz. For example, he personally had to disperse the crowd to take out the VIP-guests from the CSR.

According to preliminary calculations, only the open areas at night on Saturday was attended by over 500 thousand people. But this had not been thought through basic things - the existence of a sufficient number of toilets, garbage cans, and additional protection. For example, the most popular gallery «M & Z Gelman», with great vaterklozet, as a function of protection had to perform tortured girl-curator. However, the assurances of the organizers, despite the unprecedented squeeze on «Winery» were no injuries.

However, for the gallery is nothing surprising in a mass influx of people was not. In their opinion, the rampant enthusiasm modern art - a characteristic feature of metropolitan life the past two years. For example, at a fair Art Moscow, which ended last Sunday, buyers «stranded» all contractors, regardless of price. «Such a successful Art in Moscow has not yet been», - said on the margins of gallery.

Having experienced culture shock on «Winery», visitors go to other places to enjoy contemporary art in a more calm, but on the other venues for contemporary art in this night was a full house.

The Gallery of Gary Tatintsyan passed lecture celebrated American artist George Condo, and a concert group ZventaSventana, Gallery pARTner project have shown a cycle of films «The Secret History of Art» and staged a set of Artema Yakushenko, the museum said ART4.ru action «Art through bed »and concert Aerobika, but on ArtStrelke the third time, handed the prize« associate ». SoARTniki (ie the artists themselves) to vote for the most obvious to colleagues for a year, according to results of the survey, 101 of the token. F. received Boris Orlov, Ilya Trushevsky, Sergei and Andrei Bratkov Monastery.

In the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMSI) was a solid audience and more with the children. In the ballroom hall sang Moscow Male Chamber Choir «Peresvet», and in the yard, ustavlennom monumental sculptures of Zurab Tsereteli, played contemporary music.

In MMSI this night offered thematic tours «Kazimir Malevich and his legacy», «In the world Nikolo Pirosmani», as well as tour of the exhibition «Collection of the artist Annamuhameda Zaripova», which he had himself a master.

The State Center of Contemporary Art of visitors waited for a visual-acoustic performance «Acoustics. The process »group« Hel Kugel »and avant-garde hip-hop project Add Noise Sessions. It also showed the film «The Golden Age» Luis Bunyuelya Salvodora and Dali.

Source: www.rian.ru