Today, April 12, at 19.00 in the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Russian Academy of Arts (Gogol Boulevard, 10) will begin the official opening of the exhibition "Always a different art. Selected works from the collection of Victor Bondarenko ».

exhibition presents to the public one of the largest collections of contemporary native art - a collection of Victor Bondarenko, collector, patron and honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts, a member of the Board of Trustees of the State Tretyakov galleries.

The exhibition includes about 100 works by artists of several generations.

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The main idea of the exhibition - display the history of modern art through the prism of a private collection. Among the artists represented in the collection, there are all emblematic figures of contemporary Russian art, including Oscar Rabin , Vladimir Nemukhin , Michael Schwartzman , Erik Bulatov , Ilya Kabakov , Neizvestny , Dmitry Gutov , Alexander Kosolapov , Oleg Kulik and many others .

Bondarenko range of interests is not confined to the stars. Its collection covers a wide range of contemporary art, its different lines, regions and media. There is a chamber painting artists "other art" in different directions, pictures, and software objects are the masters, which made up the core of the "Moscow school of conceptual, social work classic art, painting and photo-realism of postmodernism, the works of the leading figures of post-Soviet time. Finally, Bondarenko enthusiastically followed the current artistic process and supports the work of bright young writers.

View Viktor Bondarenko is particularly interesting because it is the most influential collector of icons, while serving a producer of projects in emerging technologies Art.

Works from the collection of Victor Bondarenko repeatedly appear on solo and group exhibitions of contemporary art, but the collection in full has never exhibited.

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The exhibition catalog and published book on the history of modern Russian art from the collections of Victor Bondarenko.

The exhibition also timed an international scientific conference dedicated to the academic study of issues of contemporary Russian art. The aim was to light a wide range of issues of contemporary art in Russia, as well as its interaction with the global practice. Conference of its kind - an opportunity to combine academic scientists from different institutions and cities, museum researchers, influential critics and curators, foreign experts in Russian art, the younger generation of scientists.

parallel with an exhibition on Gogol Boulevard to open the third exhibition of the collection of icons Victor Bondarenko "Nothing has changed people" in the Central Museum of Ancient Russian Culture and Art Andrei Rublev.

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Viktor Bondarenko was born on April 22, 1950 in Kharkov. Publisher, entrepreneur, collector, philanthropist, founder of the Publishing House Passport International, the publishing house "military parade". Organizer of the exhibition "Russian art of the twentieth century: the years of avant-garde and the years of glasnost in the Museum of Nassau County (New York, USA, 1992, together with the Russian Cultural Foundation). One of the curators and the general sponsor of the exhibition "World of sensible things in the pictures - the end of the twentieth century" at the State Museum of Fine Arts named after AS Pushkin (Moscow, 1997). Viktor Bondarenko - the owner of one of the best collections of Russian Orthodox icons. He organized several outstanding exhibitions of national icons ("And the fruits of recognizable tree", 2003, State Tretyakov Gallery; "Icon of the Romanov Dynasty» , 2008, State Tretyakov Gallery) and contemporary art - including the sensational project «DEISIS /anticipation of" at the State Tretyakov Gallery (2004). Lives and works in Moscow.

• Erik Bulatov
  Black night, white snow (option). 2002
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Collection Bondarenko "very representative in its coverage of the most important names and artistic phenomena of recent decades. Few collectors and so has a quick reaction to the art-products of very young, not yet had time to acquire the status of artists. This indicates the in-depth approach to the material ... But there is in this assembly and strokes that give out the author's self-will, sort of, saying the youth language, otvyazannost ... There is a Bondarenko "inconsistent" with the most advanced guides, and authorities affection, personal weakness, mood swings and taste ... And it seems very likable. And - promising, for, as no one seems to me, now there is growing tired of all the sterile, lined up all the rules of good curatorial tone impersonal representations ...»

Alexander Borovsky,
Head of Department of Contemporary Art at the State Russian Museum

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"Victor Bondarenko became known as the collector of Russian icons. It is of Russian, ie, not only ancient, until the XVIII century, but also the Synodal period, or, as the author himself prefers to formulate the collection, "the era of the Romanov dynasty. Much of his collecting activities as a model in terms of scientific approach to private collections and in fact led to the rehabilitation of the late period of national icons in the eyes of professionals, museum curators and other collectors. Probably not by chance that a different, now apparently at least a significant part of his interest in the collecting was domestic modern art - the adopted sense of the word, from the postwar years to the present day: Bondarenko rightly insists that the icon several centuries and a "modern art", in which penetrate and which were tested as stylistic innovation, and shaped. In addition, as we know, the icon with the vanguard of a lot in common ...

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contemporary art Bondarenko, as it seemed to the public, actively absorbed the last five years, but in fact the beginning of his collection dates back to 1990's, when he sponsored show in the U.S. number of currently known artists, and then - beginners international art market. In one case, it turned into a full-fledged collaboration with Konstantin Khudyakov as a producer. In the future, this cooperation pretend to ultramodern, giperchuvstvennye image synthesis, mixed on the foundation of national artistic traditions - from the icons and frescoes to the media. But while this is impressive, which is unusual for Russian initiative is local in character, with the aim of creating competitive at the international level work based on the latest visual technology and a strict naturalistic aesthetics.

In comparison with the collection - the project no less ambitious »

Sergei Popov, an art historian, curator of the exhibition

exhibition is open until May 23, 2010 .

Source: mmoma.ru