Today, in the Marble Palace Russian Museum opens exhibition «Art about the art». The exhibition presents more than 150 works: graphics, painting, photography, installation, objects of such famous artists as Ilya Kabakov Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Timur Timur Novikov , Sergei Bugaev , and many others.

In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, images of art are the same grounds for creativity, which had previously been the images of living or imaginary. In the era of postmodernism can not be dispensed without borrowing, and quotations from art history - is one of the main methods of modern art. Artists correlated with all the experience world culture and do so in the range of diligent apprenticeship to the provocative parody. Art is becoming more and more addressed to itself, a theme «art about art» - all the more relevant.

The authors of the exhibition «Art about art» didaktichnost consciously went for the sake of a demonstration of the mechanisms of modern art. The exhibition shows a variety of artistic techniques: compositional analysis and deconstruction, tsitatsii and appropriation, mimicking intonation and reduction, withdrawal, and self.

the exhibition, which was built on a thematic principle, consists of sections: «The Museum», «Art about art: Close-up», «Forward/back to the classics», «Russian School», «Avant-garde forever »,« Iconography »,« The idea of art: Attack concepts »,« high/low ».

first time in one exhibition space neighborhood are quite diverse artists: Mylnikov and Olga Tobreluts , Vasyl Yakovlev and Alexander Kosolapov , Helium Korzhev and Claudio Bravo, the famous master of pop art, and most young artists. Exposure, focus, and contrasts revealed paradoxical roll, showing common causes and consequences of the most at first glance, the various processes in modern art.

The art is always in a state of self. With respect to the system of their values, their goals and resources (content and expression). This samopogruzhennost, turned on itself and is manifested diversely manifested, becomes the engine and brakes.

What is the reason, for example, a permanent treatment to artists textbook repinskomu canvas «Burlaka on the Volga»? In the exhibition «Russian School» give different answers to this question - sculpture Williams Frenk and object Vadim Kozin. Permanent creative stimulant remains for the domestic and Russian avant-garde art world, about this - exhibition section «Avant-garde forever» with labor Sokov , Bratso Dmitrievich, Irina Irina Zatulovskaya , Andrew Molodkina .

In the twentieth century the art of active immunity against simplistically understood functions of service to anyone and anything, have increased their «self». Paradoxically, the art in search of its identity was book politics and ideology, sometimes coming to a complete self-destruction in the service of the totalitarian regimes of the century (art as an ideological weapon). At the same time, increased concentration of art in himself (art for art).

In the exhibition entitled «Iconography» presents interpretations of famous paintings by Rembrandt, and Giorgione, Goya and Velazquez, Monet, and Ingres.

In art has always lived a need for introspection, but in modern times this need has become a necessity. This can be seen, and the logic of internal development of art, and reactions to the tragedy of the century - the loss of his own individuality in the service of «the great dedication». Implies self-revision, taking their goals, resources, tools for updating, for the sake of samoosuschestvleniya art for the sake of parting with fear and disease of the past.

In the «high/low» samples neugasayuschego interest in powerful ways in the art of the twentieth century - Pop Art, Sots Art - and the images of the grassroots culture kicha, marginal motifs crossing into high art .

«Art about art» - is not only eternal, but all the more pressing issue. The exhibition will present the «mechanisms» Contemporary Art, will show themselves «wheels», «gear» and «systems», idle, and their good work.

What is the idea of art - this section is devoted to «The idea of art: Attack concepts» with labor Yuri Albert , Sergei Sergei Mironenko , Leonid Borisov , Yuri Alexandrov.

At this diverse material, much less on the material of postmodernism, not to avoid eclecticism approaches. Exhibition «The Art about art» making an attempt to preserve and produce admirable and somewhat naive interest in the «device» art, making it relevant.

exhibition in the Russian Museum is open from May 21 until August 17, 2009.

Source: mkrf.ru