This evening, in the main building of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Petrovka 25) a large-scale project «From the study of art-objects» - pilot thematic exposition, which constitute the core of works of local artists of XX - XXI centuries from the museum collection. This is the first in the history of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art permanent collection of the experience of the demonstration on the basis of a single thematic program, which allows to show the diversity of museum collections, and open the public had not previously exhibited work.

Key to the project concept - study or sketch. In the classic sense, this «service» work of art, made from life to its study. To this day, sketch remains a fundamental element in the system of academic art education. In comparing the established of the study of innovative practices of modern art and is the main intrigue of the exhibition «From the study of art-object». In this case study - this is a metaphor for a specific creative installation artist to study and interpret not only the actual items, but also the theory of images. The new curator is to design a wide understanding of the phenomenon of study, understanding it as a universal and multi-faceted aesthetic category that is applicable both to the preparatory work, and to the finished works of art.

versatile museum collection, and thoughtful examination of a route permit to trace, as in the controversial experience of art XX-XXI centuries show a characteristics of study: photographic veracity, the repeatability of the motive, referring to the classical tradition, to demonstrate the laws of motion, the problem artistic language itself, and others.

logic intellectual journey the viewer in the space of the exhibition are asked three clearly defined thematic sections: «Canon», «Nature», and «Metamorphoses». The first section illustrates the reference samples of study - etyudnaya schedule and academic painting. In the next area of study subject to the notion of expansive interpretation: the work presented here are quite different in genre, but the task of each of them - the study of nature and its laws. Finally, the visitor enters the space game and fantasy, where the idea of study is split into a number of conceptual issues identified in the exhibit with one or more keywords. Thus, section «Metamorphosis» is divided into six consecutive parts: «Giperrealnost», «rehearsal», «The Classics!», «Mechanisms of motion», «Geometry form», «Practicing language». All of these themes, illustrated works from the collection of the Museum, discovering unexpected connection with a field of interest of contemporary artists.

exhibition from the collection of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art brings together nearly three hundred works performed in different techniques: traditional painting, drawing, sculpture and photography to kinetic objects and video. In close proximity are represented artists, sometimes opposing, in its creative views. Among them AES + F , Arkhipenko , Batynkov , Borisov , Alexander Vinogradov and Vladimir Dubossarskii , Andrei Goncharov , Edward Gorokhovskiy , Andrew Grositsky , Dmitry Zhilinskii , Francisco Infante , Vyacheslav Koleychuk, Valery Koshlyakov , Oleg Kulik , Mikhail Larionov , Igor Makarevich , Kazimir Malevich , Tatyana Nazarenko , Timur Novikov , Viktor Pivovarov , George Puzenkov , Leonid Purygin , Oscar Rabin , Salakhova Aidan , Igor Snegur , Faibisovich Semen , Pavel Chistyakov , Sergei Shutov , Vasily Shuhaev and many others.

The exhibition complements the work from the Scientific Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, as well as methodical Fund MGAHI them. VI Surikov.

Design exhibition developed Boris Bernasconi - one of the brightest young architects in Moscow, featuring a non-trivial approach to the design of exhibition spaces. His succinct and stylish solution does not distract attention from the of the works, but clearly exhibit structures, helping the viewer to better focus on ways to «from study to the art-object».

exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Petrovka 25) will continue until May 10.

Source: press release MMSI