Today at the Biennale Mammy "Fashion and Style in Photography" exhibition at the series of photos of Lily Brik for driving your own car "Renault", presented by Mayakovsky in 1929. Photographer - Alexander Rodchenko

Mammo, April 8 - May 9, 2013
st. Ostozhenka, 16

Today in the Multimedia Art Museum as part of the Biennale "Fashion and Style in Photography" presents "Lilya Brik. Unsuccessful trip ».

Moscow" left "creative elite sought to keep up with the times. On a motorcycle, and then the car went filmmaker Lev Kuleshov. Its sporty "Ford" was brought to Moscow, with the active participation of Mayakovsky. On a motorcycle with a sidecar ridden constructivist and filmmaker Alexei Gan . Varvara Stepanova at the end of the 1920s, regretted that he and Alexander Rodchenko have not bought yourself at least a" motor-cycle ", when it was quite affordable. Lilya Brik, who had just finished filming the movie "The Glass Eye", passionately wanted to have your own car. The car "Renault", the protagonist of a series of photographs of Rodchenko, 1929, Mayakovsky was imported from France. So Lily Brik was one of the first avtolyubitelnits in Moscow.

• Alexander Rodchenko
  From" Lilya Brik. Travel from Moscow to Leningrad. " 1929
  Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​
• Alexander Rodchenko
  From "Lilya Brik. Travel from Moscow to Leningrad. " 1929
  Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

Vladimir Mayakovsky's determination to buy the car had the summer of 1928. Mayakovsky was then going to travel around the world - America, Japan. However, despite the support of newspapers and advertisements, travel is not held.

Mayakovsky was going to buy a car for a fee for the play "Bug", which he was finishing at the time in Paris, and was about to enter into a contract with Publishers "Malik" in Berlin and for the script of the film "The ideal and blanket" for director René Clair.

When the 8 October, he went to Berlin (and later in Paris), among others Wish Lily Brik wrote the following statement on the machine:

«Better closed - conduit interiere - with all parts, with two spare wheels, rear trunk." Among the accessories mentioned road gloves and "automotive" clothes. Then go directly to the list of automobile accessories: extra spotlight side wipers, arrows showing where the car turns, warm blanket to avoid freezing water. It is best suited Lila "Buick" or "Reno." But the main thing - that was not like a taxi. Because in Moscow since 1925 appeared taxi "Reno».

Alexander Rodchenko From" Lilya Brik. Travel from Moscow to Leningrad. " 1929 Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

Alexander Rodchenko From "Lilya Brik. Travel from Moscow to Leningrad. " 1929 Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

As a result the car «Renault NN2» was sold for 20,000 francs. Mayakovsky himself all packed and shipped. The car came to Moscow in January 1929. It was a four-seater convertible, light gray bottom, top and wings - black.

Mayakovsky went to this car with a driver AK Afanasyev or former taxi driver VI Gamazinym . But every time I asked Lily if she does not need a car. Most likely, Afanasiev and went with Lily and Rodchenko rally towards Leningrad.

Alexander Rodchenko From" Lilya Brik. Travel from Moscow to Leningrad. " 1929 Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

Alexander Rodchenko From "Lilya Brik. Travel from Moscow to Leningrad. " 1929 Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

In June 1929 Lilya Brik, a driver's license.

« Lily Y. fascinated "Renoshkoy" with all kategorizmom inherent in its nature. She made a special dress and suit for the ride, check out of the hat and gloves Paris ».

From memories of Lily Brik," Rodchenko several times asked me to play with the new machine, but somehow did not work. And then Volodya persuaded me to take some pictures with "Renoshkoy" I called Alexander Mikhailovich and said she was going to drive to Leningrad. In Leningrad, he was with me he could not go, but welcomed the opportunity to take pictures. We took pictures in Moscow, I was in a dress, then changed clothes, drove to the gas station to the ground shaft, he shot from the back seat, once more ... We agreed that otedem fifteen miles, he shoot, and then come home, I'll go further. But then I did not go, it turned out that the road is terrible, and the car began to sneeze, and even go so far one is boring and dangerous. One of the photos I sit in meditation on the step - to go there? And I decided to come back.

Volodya liked these prints, and he regretted that the trip did not take place, then there would be more pictures. Then we called together the series' missed trip "».

Alexander Rodchenko From" Lilya Brik. Travel from Moscow to Leningrad. " 1929 Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

Alexander Rodchenko From "Lilya Brik. Travel from Moscow to Leningrad. " 1929 Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

Although Lilya Brik, and says about 20 miles away, but, judging by some photos, the travelers arrived at Tver, and it for more than 150 miles.

of prints donated by Lilya Brik, there was dramatic moments repair cylinders. Especially the moment when Rodchenko also actively involved in inflating tires. We see that he is dressed quite like a car: pants with leggings, a shirt with a knitted tie. Nearby, on the grass - coffer from the camera "Leica».

But on the pictures to see Mayakovsky, had plenty of other bright moments motorization: filling, fill water in the radiator, hands in gloves on Lily handlebar match with the horse on the desert, covered with gravel Leningrad highway. Arranged in a chain, these frames are unique photographic diary of travel, in which moments of movement interspersed with moments of silence, forced to wait by the side of a picnic. Rodchenko life motorist filmed in 1929 ...

Source : press release Mamma