October 8 at the gallery «Atelier number 2» in the Center of Contemporary Art «Winery» exhibition opens Borisa Iofana

8 October Gallery «Atelier number 2» in the Center of Contemporary Art «Winery» exhibition opens Borisa Iofana.

Boris Iofan - one of the most famous architects of the Stalinist era. Created them in the 1930 draft the Palace of Soviets - an unprecedented scale buildings without historical analogies, and to surpass the size of all the famous buildings of ancient and new age - was a perfect illustration of the Communist ideologem. Palace of Soviets was designed as the main Soviet building, the image that corresponds to the pursuit of power for world domination and we will hit company audacious, global projects. In a sense, the Palace of Soviets could be called The Tower of Babel twentieth century. It happened that the Palace of Soviets is much less known than the tower Tatlin , has been repeatedly renovated and endlessly reproduced. But the history of the Palace of Soviets of great interest if only because it is the most striking example of interaction between government and the creator, architect, dramatic, full of internal conflicts, a long history of designing communist phantom. The history of the project as the project itself, provides rich material for the many interpretations that have already partially been done in the post-time. Suffice it to recall the poster «paper» architect Zosimova «donate money for the restoration of the Palace of Soviets» Paperny or collage for an art exhibition in New York.

In addition to the Palace of Soviets, Boris Iofan designed by the famous «House on the embankment», where lived more than five hundred families of party leaders, with a unique infrastructure that includes well-known cinema «Udarnik». Among the works Iofana attention to constructivist sanatorium in Barvikha and the Soviet pavilion at the international exhibition in Paris, completed sculptures of Mukhina «Worker and Farmer». Projects Iofana displayed at the exhibitions «Moscow - Berlin», «Tyranny of beauty» MAK museum in Vienna, the famous international exhibition of totalitarian art in the Hayward Gallery in London and many others. Projects and models are stored in the State Museum of Architecture named AV Shchusev, fund «Russian Avantgarde», the Canadian Center of Architecture.

At the first time demonstrated the most effective projects and models of the Palace of Soviets, which was made possible thanks to the efforts of the descendants of Boris Iofana who believe that the archive should be made public. Complement the exhibition of work by modern artists who try to formulate a utopia of XXI century, marked the end of the Romantic era. Romanticism creators of the past today is equivalent to the construction of The Tower of Babel, obviously impossible. Among these artists - Peter White, Vitaly Pushnitsky, Tigran Malkhasyan, Ivan Плющ and others. At the opening of the exhibition invited by the Director of the London Design Museum Deyyan Sudzhich lecture «Policy architecture» .

The exhibition is open daily from 14.00 to 20.00

Closed on: Monday, Tuesday.

Source: Press Release Center for Contemporary Art «Winery», artinvestment.ru