Your old stroller can be a part of the installation in front of the Pushkin Museum
ARTinvestment.RU   14 июня 2017

The Pushkin Museum. Pushkin announced the collection of 350 children's wheelchairs for outdoor installations by Chinese artist Cai Guoqiang

Russia's First large exhibition of famous Chinese artist Cai Guoqiang "October", timed to 100-летию the October revolution, will be held in the Main building of the Museum from 12 September to 12 November 2017. The collection of wheelchairs will be held from 14 June to 5 September 2017. And then in front of the facade of the Pushkin Museum. A. S. Pushkin will appear a giant installation by Cai Guoqiang from young birch trees that grow out of Cribs, strollers and Cribs.

Since the main idea of the project — "human dimension" of history, the memory of the people about its roots, Cai Guoqiang looking for for your project, strollers and Cribs and their history in which children grew up. Everyone who will give the Museum a stroller or a crib, make your family history a part of world art history and will be able to share it with millions of viewers worldwide.

in order to transfer the stroller into the gift, you must click on the link arts-museum.ru/quiz/cai, to choose the gratitude from the Museum, which will appeal to the most and fill in the feedback form.

donated a wheelchair you can get to choose:

• Invitation to the Vernissage. You will receive an invitation to the Vernissage of the exhibition "Cai Guoqiang. October" for two persons;

• participation in the creation of a gunpowder drawing. You will visit a temporary artist's Studio in Moscow and participate in the creation of a gunpowder drawing that will be presented at the exhibition "Cai Guoqiang. October";

• exhibition Tour with the curator. Curator of the exhibition, Deputy head of the Department of art of Europe and America XIX–XX centuries Alexander Danilov will conduct a tour of the exhibition "Cai Guoqiang. October";

• Postcard with an autograph and invitation to the exhibition. You will receive a postcard autographed by Cai Guoqiang and invitation to the exhibition "Cai Guoqiang. October" for two persons on any convenient day;

• invitation to the exhibition for two. You will receive two invitations to the exhibition "Cai Guoqiang. October" on any convenient day.

• you Can give the stroller free of charge.

Cai Guoqiang familiar to the Russian public as the author of the grandiose pyrotechnic show of the opening of the Olympics 2008 in Beijing. The artist was awarded the highest award in the field of contemporary art — "Golden lion" at the Venice Biennale. In September — November 2017 in the main building Pushkin Museum. A. S. Pushkin will be held the first solo exhibition of Cai Guoqiang in Russia. "Project October" will transform the main exhibition space of the Museum in total installation commemorating 100-летию the October revolution. The exposition will include the famous gunpowder paintings, the artist's fame in the art world, as well as photographs, drawings, sketches.

the Main event of the exhibition in Moscow will be the creation of a colossal installation, "Autumn", which will be located in front of the main entrance to the Museum and transforms its facade and the famous portico, the monument of thousands of human lives. This man-made mountain-монумент from birch trees "growing" out of prams and cots, and become the utopian metaphor of our childhood dreams of a great future and an allusion to a famous scene from the film by Sergei Eisenstein "Battleship "Potemkin"".

Source: press-релиз Pushkin Museum.Alexander Pushkin