May 15, 2010 The State Tretyakov Gallery has once again joined the international campaign "Night of Museums". It will be held in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Krymsky Val under the slogan: "Sanatorium Arts. Department artopedii and aesthetic trauma ».

Tretyakov Gallery invites all artists free to participate in this exhibition project. Starting today and until April 20 to send e-mail [email protected] your project with the subject "Health Hotel Arts, which will transform the museum space in the medical and aesthetic sanatorium.

to participate in creative competition must provide a photo (sketch) of the project, together with a detailed (not more than half a page), the conceptual justification.

work, past selection, will be submitted to a severe trial users of the Tretyakov Gallery on May 15, when the progressive opinion around the world notes the night of museums - the most important night for art lovers.

for jury will be offered the space first to fourth floors of the Tretyakov Gallery in Krymsky Val. Photographs of works will be posted on the website of the Tretyakov Gallery.

Please note that to participate in the competition are accepted ONLY art objects and installations.

About the exhibition project:

idea Sanatorium prompted circumstances of place: lobbies the Tretyakov Gallery in Krymsky Val, furnished room with vegetation, reminiscent of the "kingdom of Flora" in the Soviet sanatoriums and clinics. This art museum is likened to recreational centers, where visitors can get rid of or protect themselves from all kinds of ailments.

This kind of museum "sanatorium" Russia fully meets the needs of the audience, traditionally very demanding works of art designed to educate, educate, elevate, reclaim, almost shoot damage induced by the surrounding world. This kind of teaching demands often lead to confusion in cases where the viewer is faced with the works of modern art. Then start the complaint of illness and injury, and in some cases - even the direct charge of inflicting injury and aesthetic injury.

This accusers forget that many forms of modern art determined the latest forms of art therapy, that the modern artist must sometimes make painful to the recipient was in good health, and, finally, that many works of art, not yielding in oriental clearance, "disturb" their recipients for centuries.

action "Sanatorium arts" will unite the efforts of artists offering:

• complexes recreational exercises aimed at overcoming the aesthetic ailments;
• original simulators and other developments in field of modern artopedii;
• works cathartic properties in the shock department of art therapy;
• conceptual practices involving the correction and correction of aesthetic fallacies;
• diagnostic equipment for the correction and prevention of vulgarity and tastelessness;
• performative fitness.

Night at the Tretyakov Gallery is accompanied by a musical program in front of the Crimean Val, video shows, a screen for which will serve as the facade of the museum, and meetings with famous artists in the conference hall.

Source: press release of the State Tretyakov Gallery