ARTisARTisART

New selection from the collection of Moscow Museum of Modern Art

Curator: Dimitry Ozerkov

Dates: November 25, 2011 – September 2, 2012

Venue: Moscow Museum of Modern Art (25 Petrovka street)

The title of the new selection from the collection of Moscow Museum of Modern Art “ARTisARTisART” refers to the “Two Hours in an Empty Tank” poem by Joseph Brodsky (1965). The tautologically sophisticated line, a repercussion of the self-reflection so characteristic of art, has become a starting point for the main idea of the new display. The idea is to understand art as an honest and many-sided open commentary. Two hours, mentioned by Brodsky, are an approximate period of time, which a viewer usually spends in the museum. MMoMA invites him to find himself in the area of crisscross references and mutually enriching dialogues between authors, artworks, the architecture of the museum’s halls and the viewer himself.

The new display follows the international museum practice of representing the museum’s collection in the form of annual changing exhibitions. MMoMA owns one of Russia’s most important collections of the 20th- and 21st-century art. Its holdings are regularly replenished with new artworks. The concept of each exhibition is elaborated by the museum’s team alone or together with an invited curator. It helps to show the collection from a new viewpoint, analyzing those or other artworks and art tendencies. The curator of the current selection is Dimitry Ozerkov, PhD, a well-known St. Petersburg-based art historian.

Attached you will find a press release.

С уважением, | Best regards,

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