The Tretyakov gallery presents the work of major contemporary artists Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina, placed in the halls of the permanent exhibition on the Crimean Shaft

THG, April 17 — 31 July 2015
Moscow, Krimsky Val, 10, halls 27-28

the Tretyakov gallery presents the work of major contemporary artists Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina, placed in the halls of the permanent exhibition. Installation of the objects of the leaders of the Moscow conceptual school among the paintings of the mid-twentieth century focuses the viewer's attention on two phenomena — dialogue on the art of different epochs and museumification of art. Just in the halls of the state Tretyakov gallery hosted 15 objektov@

some of the objects that created Makarevich and Elagina, freely arranged in the information hall "the Art of second half of XX century", part of grouped in three showcases "the Attributes of art, Value of art, Knowledge of art" that are on display in the hall "Art 1940-1950-х years." In their works, the artists present an in-depth analysis, the basic concepts of art: tangible reality, the laws of color, compositional rules. Using this analysis, the installations are intended to identify "substance", providesto painting, which manifests itself regardless of the content and style of the work. Thus, the viewer gets the opportunity to compare the manifestation of the General categories of fine art in conceptual installations and Soviet zhivopisi@

Strangers in this part of the Museum environment, objects Makarevich and Elagina experiencing the Museum as a rebirth, a transformation of values. They are near recognizable, recognized as masterpieces: "the Ice has gone" (1945) S. V. Gerasimov, "Haymaking" (1945) and "Spring" (1954) A. A. Plastov, "Glass of milk" (1984) G. M. Korzheva, "Mother" (1960-1961) AP and SP Tkachev, — which passed the process of integration into the Museum space and the assignment of the collectible status several decades earlier. Such experiences "uneven-aged" art without an open confrontation in the same space Makarevich and Elagina already held in the exposition of the old masters (Titian, Rembrandt) in the famous Vienna Museum of art history (Kunsthistorisсhes Museum) in 2009. In such projects the halls of the Museum are used by authors as a fine tool, not a neutral exhibition Sreda@

it is Noteworthy that Makarevich and Elagina back in the space of the Tretyakov gallery on Krymsky Val 10 years since the big solo exhibitions and demonstrate again that, despite the appeal with art on the principle of "the music I was rashal like a corpse", and each statement is always "within the beautiful".

Source: press-релиз TG