New exhibitions in the museums of the Kremlin March. The Museums of the Moscow Kremlin will host the exhibition "Louis Holy and Relic Saint-Chapel

"ICONS OF MODERN ART. THE SHCHUKIN COLLECTION »

Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris
22.10.2016 - 05.03.2017
_ If before March 5, you will find yourself in Paris, you will certainly visit the Louis Vuitton Foundation - Architect Frank Geri (author of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao), located in the Boulogne Forest. At the exhibition ICONS OF MODERN ART, works from the collection of Sergei Schukin - the Russian collector and the pages of the 20th century are collected. He was a big fan of French painting, but after the revolution emigrated, and in 1948 his collection was disbanded and since then was not exhibited as a whole. Visitors are offered to make a trip to the recreated mansion of Schukin - before seeing the works themselves, they fall into the hall with photographs of the Schukinsky house in Moscow, and on the first floor they even built arched arches, as in his lobby. The exhibition occupies all four floors of the Fund, it begins with the "First Collection" hall with the works of the XIX century. Here are collected preraphhaels, English artists and even one of the first French realists Gustina Kourba. The main halls are concentrated around the main names: "Pink living room. Henri Matisse, "Cabinet Picasso," Big Iconostasis "with works of Vincent Van Gogh and Gaugaen fields. In the rest of the halls, works are located in genres, here and landscapes, and portraits. So the audience can trace the development of painting at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries - the time of large changes in art. But this is not all: a few halls are devoted to Russian artists of the beginning of the twentieth century and their dialogue with French painters. Malevich here is adjacent to Matisse, and Tatlin's works are located near Picasso. In 1911, Gallery was opened in Schukin's house, and many Russian artists were inspired by the works of French impressionists. Specially for the exhibition was prepared by video installation of Peter Greenway and Saskoviy Boddek "Schukin - Matisse: Dance and Music" - a story about the interaction of Russian and French art. And after viewing all the halls, a pleasant completion of the exhibition will be a walk through the open terraces, from where you can admire the views of the Eiffel Tower, the modern district of Defans and the Boulogne forest itself.

The exhibition will like those who are interested in the Russian painting and the work of the postmingness. We recommend to read "postpressionism. From Van Gogh to Gauguen "John Reald. And in order to better understand the Russian art of the beginning of the twentieth century, it is worth paying attention to the book of Ekaterina Bobrinskaya "Russian Avangard: the borders of art" - the author takes into account the role of Russian artists not only in the formation of domestic art, but also in the foreign artistic process. Site: fondationlouisvuitton.fr.

VISIONS OF THE HISPANIC WORLD

National Museum Prado, Madrid
04.04.2017 - 10.09.2017
_ In the Prado Museum in April, an exhibition of the collection of the Spanish Society of America will open, which will unite the works of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American art collected outside the Iberian Peninsula. The exhibition will include the most significant objects of art: archaeological finds, works of Islamic and medieval art of Spain, masterpieces of the golden century - period from the XVI to the XVII century, when the country experienced a great cultural flourishing, painting XIX and XX centuries, as well as the art of Latin America since colonization times until the 20th century. The exhibition is divided into sections, in the first two, the art of Spain and Latin America will be located - Roman sculpture, ceramics and glass, fabrics and jewelry (both Christian, and Islamic), as well as works of the Renaissance and Baroque era. Special attention will be paid to Spanish and colonial painting. The floor is above the hall with Spanish painting of the XIX and XX centuries and a large portrait gallery. The Spanish Society of America was founded in 1904 in New York Archer Huntington, a collector and a fan of Spanish culture. It was simultaneously a public library, a museum and an educational institution, and its task was the spread of Spanish and Portuguese culture, learning languages, history, literature and art.

This exhibition is an excellent opportunity to get acquainted with Spanish art from antiquity to the present day. And of course, in order to understand it, you need to repeat the story, because it was at the Iberian Peninsula Greek, Roman and Byzantine heritage entered into confrontation with Arabic traditions, and as a result, bright and original art was formed. Site: museodelprado.es.

Opening of the Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum, Abu Dhabi

This year in Abu Dhabi will open its Louvre - a real museum city on water. It consists of 55 small sectors under a dome with radiant illumination. The city-museum of architect Jean Nouvelev is streets, squares and channels, and the exhibition space is located not only inside, but also outside the pavilions. The collection for the museum is collected since 2012 and includes not only the objects of Arab art, but also a classical European painting. The cooperation of French museums with the Emirate made it possible to create a new center of cultural attraction, which will be open to all. Louvre will be the place of discoveries and education in the Arab Emirates, and will also play an important social role. The dialogue between art objects, sculpture and painting will allow visitors to find historical ties between cultures around the globe. And at the first exhibitions in the museum will show the collection of Pita Mondriana, Iva Saint-Lauren and Pierre Berez and others.

So those who are going on vacation in the UAE will present a great opportunity to combine a serene vacation on the beach and acquaintance with the actual trends of the world of art. Site: Louvreabudhabi.ae.

"Behind the stars. Mystical landscape from Monet to Kandinsky "

OSA Museum, Paris
14.03.2017 - 25.06.2017
_ Artists throughout history tried to escape from reality and approach the secrets of the universe. The phenomenon of mysticism existed in all religions and united people of all continents. The turn of the XIX-XX centuries is marked by the growth of urbanization and the popularity of materialism, so many artists disappointed in the traditional religion appealed to mysticism, and at this time there was a European symbolic painting. The exposition includes works from Europe, Scandinavia and North America. One of the main and famous paintings - "Star Night in Arle" Vincent Van Gogh. Also, other European artists of the 1920s, Hodler, Munk, Klimt and Van Gogh) are collected here and the Master of the Canadian School of 1920-1930 (Lauren Harris, Tom Thomson and Emily Carr and even Georgia O'Keff) .

Before visiting, you can read French symbols, such as Charles Bodler and Lotreamon. Like any art, painting symbolists is a message, the process of decrypting which can be very exciting. Site: musee-orseay.fr.

"De Kiriko. Nostalgia on infinity "

Tretyakov Gallery on Crimean Shaft
19.04.2017 - 23.07.2017
_ Exhibition Giorgio de Kiriko in Moscow will be his first large-scale retrospective in Russia. De Kiriko is one of the brightest artists of the Italian avant-garde and the inventor of metaphysical painting, harbing surrealism. The artist placed ordinary items into the irreal space, creating a contrast between a realistic image, distorted by the prospect and fictional world. It was his work that Salvador was inspired by Rena Magritte. About 100 works of painting, graphics, sculptures and theatrical costumes, which artist created Sergey Dyagileev to Ball ballet in 1929 was brought to Moscow. The exposition will also include archival materials and photos. Georgio and Island, Pompidou Paris, London Museum of Victoria and Alberta and others shared their exhibits.

Retrospective Takasi Murakov

Museum of Contemporary Art Garage, Moscow
September 2017.
_ Autumn to Moscow will bring the first retrospective Takasi Murakami, one of the most famous modern Japanese artists. Takasi studied the traditional Japanese painting of Nihong in Tokyo University of Fine Arts. In his work, he addresses more modern products of Japanese pop culture - anime and manga. It is he who owns the invention of the style of Superflat - Japanese painting is characterized by flatness, and it uses this feature. The exhibition will also include traditional Japanese painting and graphics from the collection of the Pushkin Museum and the Museum of Art of the Nations of the East. In the "Garage" will be presented by Murakami since the 1990s, and the exhibition itself will leave the museum limits and will be located on the Arts Square in Gorky Park.

Before visiting, it is worth reading about classical Japanese art to see much more meaning for bright art objects. We also recommend to get acquainted with Japanese literature - for example, the "praise shadow" of Junitiro Tanisaki, where the author compares Japanese and European cultures.

Venetian Biennale of Contemporary Art

13.05.2017 - 26.11.2017
_ The topic of the 57th Biennale in Venice will be "Viva Arte Viva" ("Long live life"). The exhibition is consistently revealed in front of the viewer and carries it on a journey, where each pavilion tells his story. Russia here will be presenting artists Grisha Bruskin, Sasha Pirogov and Art Group Recycle. The topic of the pavilion is "Theater of Life and Death". Recycle workshops beat the "garbage" of civilization, turning it into works of art. They also work with brands and symbols, for example, in Paradise Network, the letter F (from Facebook) becomes sculpture in the shape of a cross, and a variety of bas-reliefs are reminded of ancient Greece, only the topic of them is different - consumption society. Artists Recycle combine classic techniques and provocative topics in their works and will certainly be able to surprise even the sophisticated viewer.

Before traveling to Venice, except guidebooks, we recommend reading the "history of art" of Ernst Gombrich - in it a very simple and fascinating language is given an explanation of the most difficult topics of fine art. And the book is "Izma. How to understand the modern art "Sam Phillips, which places works in the desired context and thereby gives the key to their understanding. Biennale is definitely worth visiting at least once to become a participant in the most relevant discussion. And there will be "open tables", where everyone can learn more about the work of artists and divide lunch with friends. Site: labienna.org.

Christian Dior.

Museum of Decorative Art, Paris
06.07.2017 - 07.01.2018
_ The Dior's house continues events in honor of the 70th anniversary, and one of the significant events of 2017 will be the retrospective exhibition of Christian Dior in the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. It will be built according to the classical principle: the main themes will be the work and creativity of one of the last great fashion designers of the twentieth century. During the years of work, Christian Dior elevated the fashion rank of art, became a real artist and collaborated and friendly with the most talented contemporaries, among whom were man Ray and Jean Cockeux. Dior began his career as an illustrator for fashion magazines - after the crisis of 1929, a young gallery driver remained without a means. The first collection produced Furore in 1947. The audience seemed to be again in Belle époque, forgetting about post-war savings and tissue shortages. The revival of already familiar silhouettes and is absolutely new, the architectural approach to Crow made the fashion designer known to the whole world, and the New Look invented them is popularly invented.

The exhibition will appeal to all fans of fashion and those who are interested in her story. She promises to be one of the more detailed this year. Before visiting, we recommend Polystay Dior albums for inspiration, as well as read about it - for example, the book "Dior: The New Look Revolution" or "Christian Dior" Charlotte Sinclair.

September 8, 2017 at the same time in two cities of Russia, Kaliningrad and Salekhard, exhibition projects from the Assembly will open Museums of Moscow Kremlin.

IN Kaliningrad Museum of World Ocean The exhibition will pass "The patrons of the navigators, heaven and earthly". The exhibition takes place in the year of the 320th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Embassy and stay in Koenigsberg Tsar Peter Alekseevich, Founder of the Russian Fleet, and is designed to introduce visitors with unique works of the XV - the beginning of the XIX centuries from the Museums of the Kremlin.

The exhibition presents objects from the royal treasury, among which the diplomatic gifts caused by the king Mikhail Fedorovich From the kings of England Charles I and Yakov I, from King Denmark and Norway Christian IV. The portraits of the emperors of Peter I and Alexander I, performed at the St. Petersburg Trellic Manufactory in the XVII-XIX centuries, are of particular value, and the portrait of Ekaterina II, carved on Amber II. Visitors will see the icons of the XV-XIX centuries., Including the image of the Mother of God "Odigitria", which dates back to the last third XV century. The exposition presents icons, awards, cold weapons, precious dishes, coins, medals, as well as items from the Cabinet of Emperor Alexander I. One of the sections of the exhibition is devoted to the era of the glory of the Russian Fleet. In total, 86 exhibits are presented at the exhibition. More than a third of them are shown to the public for the first time, a significant part was specially renovated for the project.

The exhibition promises to become an important cultural event not only for Kaliningrad, but in general for the region, and will allow visitors to get acquainted with genuine masterpieces of domestic and foreign arts, imprinted the formation of marine glory of Russia.

The exhibition is carried out as part of a joint program with LUKOIL PJSC.

IN Yamalo-Nenets District Museum and Exhibition Complex named after I.S. Shemanovsky Represent an exhibition "The hunt of the kings and emperors in Russia in the XVII-XVIII centuries. From the collection of museums of the Moscow Kremlin "dedicated to one of the favorite entertainment of Russian kings and emperors - hunting, which is an important part of the palace ceremonial designed to demonstrate the subject and foreign guests of the Gloss and the greatness, authority and power of the rulers.

More than eighty unique exhibits of the exhibition will be told about different types of hunting, about tastes and personal preferences of Russian kings and emperors of the XVII-XVIII centuries. The exhibition will introduce the audience with Armory Chamber and Stable orderFor several centuries, ceremonial armor were made and kept ceremonial armor, parade weapons and precious horse gear. The exhibition presents a weapon belonging to the rulers of Russia - the best examples of the work of the leading Russian and Western European weapons centers. The exposition includes a rare weapon from the collection of Emperor Peter III, the exhibits associated with the "parfors" hunting, guns with the vensels of Empress Anna John, Elizabeth Petrovnaand Catherine II. For the first time, visitors will be able to see the strip of the cortica and Garda, belonging to the princess A.G. Dolgorukome - participant in the hunt of Emperor Peter II. The treasures of the sovereign weapon and stable treasury, road equipment, the best samples of hunting weapons belonging to the Russian rulers, accompanies the portrait gallery of the kings-hunters.

The exhibition is of interest to everyone who is interested in Russian history, culture and art, she will introduce the viewer with the world of the Russian court life of the XVII-XVIII centuries and unique exhibits Museums of Moscow Kremlin.

From Venetian art to artists of the period thawed, from Kuzma Petrova-Vodkina to El Salvador Dali - 14 important exhibitions of the year to be made to their calendar.

"Caprician". Goya and Dali

Francisco Goya.« Caprician» . Series of 80 etchings. "Sleep mind gives rise to monsters", 1799

The State Museum of Fine Arts continues to unite contemporary art with classic: This time, not only the Japanese artist Yasumas Morimur, but also the Spaniards of Francisco Goya and Salvador Dali appeared in such anonym. At a small exhibition in the main building presented the etchings from the "Kaprichos" series of both authors. However, if the Goya series is a satirical reflection on the crisis of the modern Spanish crisis, they gave severely, Ironize the already existing plots of Goya, adding new characters in the composition and reinpected the factor names. The era of romanticism and postmodernism of the twentieth century face dialogue, visual and literary.

Triennale of contemporary art

When: March 2017

In the anniversary of the October Revolution, the Museum of Contemporary Art "Garage" launches the revolutionary program - introduces Muscovites with current artists from all over Russia, from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok. In the first triennal, more than 60 artists will take part, which curators were selected throughout the country. They also allocated seven trends that became common to all regions, as well as the main masters whose influence goes far beyond the native city or region. The topic of the exhibition will be the spirit of time and social trends that determine regional artistic processes. "Our idea is to show the current cut of Russian contemporary art and start interacting with the regions," the director of "Garage" Anton Belov commented on Trennale.

"Thaw»

Vladimir Gavrilov. "Cafe. Autumn day ", 1962

The arrival of spring is celebrated in Moscow by the onset of "thaw" - at the exhibition in the Tretyakov Gallery will be shown traditional for the turn of 50-60-artists - Pimenova, Gavrilova, Salakhov, Popkov. The exposition presents several thematic sections - from the "Best City of Earth" to "Atom - Cosmos" - and tells not only about the achievements of the Khrushchev era, but also on the conflicts of this historical period. "It was the most important era of not just art, but the human worldview and the incarnation of it in all possible artistic forms," \u200b\u200bthe director of the Tretyakov Gallery of Zelphira Togulov said about the epoch.

"Face for the future. Art of Europe 1945-1968»

Where: GMI them. A. S. Pushkin; ul. Volkhonka, 12.

Yves Klein."Blue Globe (RP 7)", 1988. Copy from the original 1957, made after the death of the artist

The thaw will come not only in the Tretyakov Gallery, but covers all Moscow - Pushkin Museum, Gorky Park and Museum of Moscow, where, in addition to exhibitions, lectures, master classes and discussions will be held. And if the Russian art of the Khrushchev era will be shown in the Tretyakovsky Gallery, then in Pushkin - European post-war artists who fought for peace after the overthrow of totalitarian dictators and inventing all new utopias. Two hundred masters from Western and Eastern Europe are represented at the exhibition in a variety of arts, from picturesque canvases and photos to the mediaarta and sharerage.

Hugo Rondinone "Your age and my age and rainbow age"

Where: Museum of Contemporary Art "Garage", ul. Crimean shaft, 9, p. 32

One of the most High modern artists of recent years, successfully conquering fairs and biennale, the Swiss Hugo Rondinone will present a special exposition at the Museum of Modern Art "Garage" as part of Garage Square Commissions. Hugo specially recorded a video message to children, in which he asked to draw a rainbow - a symbol of love, fearlessness and joy of life. Children from 4 to 10 years, participants of the Garage educational programs and pupils of orphanages will become full co-authors of Rondinone - their work will be shown on the wall along the museum.

"Louis Holy and Relic Saint-Chapel»

Where: Museums of the Moscow Kremlin, One-Palp Chamber of Patriarchal Palace

"The baptism of Christ" Stained glass goods Saint-Chapel, Paris, about 1270-1280

Fans of medieval art can be glad: In the spring of the Kremlin, the monuments of the era of the French king Louis Saint - Stained-glass windows and the relics of the Saint-Chapel chapel, as well as works from the collection of the Louvre, Museum of medieval art. Klyoni, National Library and National Archives. Many works are really unique and leaving the limits of France for the first time, among them - the Limoges enamel and the jewelry art of high Gothic, as well as the reliquary of the throat crown of the XIX century, which will become one of the main exhibits. The exhibition accompanies a large-scale educational program, which can be found in more detail on the site dedicated to the exhibition.

"De Kirico. Nostalgia on infinity»

Where: State Tretyakov Gallery, ul. Crimean shaft, 10

Georgio de Kiriko. "Song of Love", 1914

The Tretyakov Gallery continues to acquaint the Moscow Spectator with the work of the Italian masters. Not as large as on the "Vatican", but no less spectacularly here will open the exhibition George de Kiriko, prepared together with the Georgio Foundation and Island De Kiriko. A similar retrospective is held for the first time, before that the picturesque works of Italian metaphysics were exhibited in 1929, and the etchings in the 1930s.

George Morandi

Where: GMI them. A. S. Pushkin, ul. Volkhonka, 14.

George Morandi. Still Life, 1948.

If in the Tretyakovka show a surrealistic de Kiriko, then in Pushkinsky will present the anthology of creativity of another master of the first half of the twentieth century - George Morandi. 40 After the exhibition, after the Morandi exhibition in 1973, the Museum will present a retrospective, which includes all the stages of the master's creativity from early metaphysics and avant-garde works to the classic Moorendi still lifes, thanks to which he received recognition. In addition, the exhibition presents both the graphics of the artist, including the etchings and engraving boards.

"Anselm Kifer - Velimiza Khlebnikov"

Where: State Hermitage

Anselm Kifer. Osiris and Isis, 1985

The first personal exhibition of Anselma Kifer will open in the Hermitage in the late spring. However, it will not be just a retrospective, but the dedication of the German artist to the Russian poet Velimir Khlebnikov. Both unites the theme of the war: It is expressed in cycling, which takes place on water and land in 317 years old, and in Khifer - in reflexes on the theme of Nazism and Holocaust. "I think the images. Poems help me in this. They are like beacons. I sail to them, from one to another. Without them, I disappeared, "says kifer about poetry.

"Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto. Golden Age of Venetian Painting "

Where: GMI them. A. S. Pushkin, ul. Volkhonka, 12.

When: June - the end of August

Paolo Veronese. "Apollo and Mariji", the second half of the XVI century

Venetsian art, although it is difficult to surprise the sophisticated viewer, but it is impossible not to be pinned. Reaching a heyday in the XVI century in the works of Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto, the Venetian school is considered one of the tops of the development of Italian painting in the entire history of art. It is these artists that will be presented at the exhibition where it will be possible to see about 40 caved.

« Someone 1917»

Where: GTG, ul. Crimean shaft, 10

Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. "In Petrograd", 1918

Although the century of the revolution will not become the main leitmotif of the exhibitions of this year, the curators of the GTG will still pay a significant attention to it. The exhibition is devoted primarily to the artists who worked as a revolution, and represents two sections - figurative peacekeepers and utopian - unprotected. Nesterov, Kandinsky, Serebryakova, Petrov-Vodkin, Kluz, Malevich - All of them can be seen at the exhibition "Someone 1917".

Takasi Murakov

Where: Museum of Contemporary Art "Garage"

Takasi Murakov,Kaikai. 2000-2005

A lovedant of bright colors and recognizable labels Takasi Murakami in Moscow will be given for the first time - the Garage is preparing a greater exhibition that will also include graphics and animation and works of Japanese masters from GMI collections. A. S. Pushkin and the State Museum of Art of the Nations of the East. Five sections of the exhibition will be devoted to the work of the Master since the 90s and will affect the various phenomena of Japanese culture, embodied in the work of Murakami. The artist is called Japanese Andy Warhol, it can also be compared with Yoya Kusayama - both artists have their own, very definite mana and collaborate with fashionable brands.

Clima's drawings and colors from the collection of the Albertina Museum, Vienna

Where: GMI them. A. S. Pushkin, ul. Volkhonka, 12.

Egon sewn. Youth in Purple Cassock with Folded Hands, 1914

Although Italian exhibitions occupy most of the program of this year, in fact he is under the sign of cultural cooperation of Austria and Russia. At the end of the year, the exhibition of the two most famous artists of the 19th-XX-XX centuries - Clima and his follower will open in the Pushkin Museum. The main emphasis is on schedule - both masters are not only good painters, but also excellent drawers, and the meeting of Vienna Albertina is one of the best graphic assemblies in the world.

"Salvador Dali. Surrealist and classic »

Where: Faberge Museum in St. Petersburg, embankment River Fontanka, 21

Salvador Dali. "Atomic Leda", 1949.

The first large-scale exhibition "Salvador Dali. Surrealist and Classic "will open at the Faberge Museum on April 1 and will last until July 2. The exposition will present work from the Spanish Foundation "Gala - Salvador Dali", private and museum collections. A total of more than 150 graphic and picturesque works of the artist will be at the exhibition.Tickets for "Salvador Dali. Surrealist and classic »already went on sale.

Crown reliquary. Maasa Valley (Liege?). 1260-1280. Paris, Louvre RMN-Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre) / Martine Beck-Coppola

Ten many years, the main engine of the exhibition success of the Museums of the Kremlin was the "Imperial and Royal Treasury of the World in the Kremlin". It seems that during this time the cycle honestly exhausted. Or almost exhausted. In the Kremlin plans for the upcoming 12 months there are, for example, already re-appealing to Japanese stories. And there is a rather exotic turn of the topic - the treasures of the Portuguese crown, which from a historical point of view is reasonably, since the Portuguese colonial empire once was the richest territorial conglomerate of the world. But still it is a few local items next to the treasures of Tudors, Habsburgs or Squast Saxon Sakson - and they have already played their glorious roles in the cycle.

"Double wrap". Stained glass window from Saint-Chapel. 1230-1248. France, Center for National Monuments Patrick Cadet / Center Des Monuments Nationaux

Moreover, the treasures of the French kings within the exhibition series already in the Kremlin toured: precious medieval, renaissance and baroque vessels from the personal collection of Louis XIV were brought from Louvre in 2004. And yet it is the current exhibition about Louis Saint on the "Treasure TV series" (for nothing, it seems to be formally, it doesn't feel about it) impeccably fits into its context. It is only necessary to remember that the case is happening in the Kremlin, which, with all its diamonds, gold, iconic, fresco and white funds, is also a repository of symbolic sinks of power. And about the power, especially the power of the medieval with its sacral and mystical obverseons, the humanitarian science of the last 50 years is no wonder to reason with the methodological support for the famous works about ritual aura around the French crown: "Kings-Wonderworkers" Mark Blok, "Two Bodies of the King" Ernst Kantorovich etc.

Reliquary thorns crown. 1806. Gold plated silver, crystal. Cathedral of Paris's Our Lady Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris / Pascal Lemaître

Louis IX, who ruled France in 1226-1270 (that is, during our Alexander Nevsky and his son Daniel Alexandrovich, the first specific prince of Moscow), was an exalted embodiment of this extremely sublime idea of \u200b\u200bthe Royal San. A pious Christian who was carrying under Porphirava. The wise and powerful ruler, who made France with a pan-European focus and political authority, and cultural superiority. A strict justice worker, self-arguing the charges of his subjects of all ranks; Something from his acts in this capacity (extermination of blasphemers, rovists, players, prostitutes) Outside the context of time, the top of justice may not look, but the principles of the rule of the national judicial authority, the presumption of innocence, supports on the Roman law and ban on barbaric remnants It seems like orders and court fights actually in any context not bad. Knight without fear and reproach, and therefore, the crusader: Louis personally participated in the seventh and eighth crusades. Which for him, with all his zeal and heroism, turned around with solid disasters: defeats, captivity, forced concessions to Sracinam, camp diseases (especially the dysentery, which and thugged the king, - of course, not romantic, but what to do!). But the additional shine of his crown was attached to them.

"Madonna with baby." France, the end of the XIII - the beginning of the XIV century. Ivory, tree, traces of green and red paint and gilding. Height 34 cm. State Hermitage. Photo: A.M. Kokshars

Not to all the great rulers can create an ideal and eloquent architectural manifesto, but Louis Saint It succeeded. His Saint-Chapel, Holy Capella, not just a tritomatic sample of high gothic. First, this is a sign of royal grandeur. In Saint-Chapel, in fact, two temples located one over the other. Building lower - for royal servants, upper, dazzlingly beautiful, filled with multi-colored light, refracted in stained-glass windows, which there are so many that the real tact of the walls disappears, was intended for the monarch.

Diptych's sash depicting the passions of Christ. Northern France, mid XIII century. Ivory, traces of coloring. State Hermitage. Photo: A.M. Kokshars

Kazanova, I remember, proudly wrote about the Venetian Basilica of St. Mark, that no sovereign in the world could boast of such a palace chapel. Such as San Marco, really had to brag, except for the guild, but Saint-Chapel Louis IX was still out of competition, and not only thanks to an incredible architectural perfection. It was the sacred space of a special status, one of its kind grandiose reliquary for the storage of the most important shrines of the Christian world.

In this collection, consecrated and exalted the power of Louis, there were not only the next particles of the Cross of the Lord and Bethlehem nursery. If you believe the medieval sources, there was, for example, a non-manual image (the same, "mandilion", the Holy Deck - a towel with a wonderfully imprinted Face of Christ). There was a spear of Longgin - the relic of the Calval Drama, which caused a special thrill in the medieval consciousness. And there was an alleged thorns of the Savior's crown, it is already known exactly.

"Louis IX peaks justice." Miniature from the handwritten book Guillaume de Saint-Putu "Life and Wonders of St. Louis." 1330-1340, France. National Library of France (BNF)

These treasures of Louis did not find a wonderful way in the abandoned temple, did not receive a gift from a generous alien ruler, did not conquer in battle. Everything is much pragmatic. The unlucky Latin Emperor Baldown II FLANDERS, RUB in the captured Crusaders of Constantinople, was forced to somehow reduce the ends with the ends, lay the Veniceians who belonged to his holding the Byzantine predecessors of the shrine, including a crown. Louis Sveti bought them for 135 thousand livres. For comparison: to build a Saint-Chapel at the same time for a record short time, 40 thousand and another 100 thousand king cost the creation of a huge, three-meter height, a precious ark, where the relics were placed. This ark was not preserved, he was remembered during the Great French Revolution. But there are many objects related to the biography of Louis IX himself and his posthumous veneration (including documents of the canonization process), with the liturgical practice of St. Chapel, his favorite temple brainchild, and in general, who reflected that era in all its Gothic splendor and with all strange Weavers: Dazzling Ideal of Power and Bedroom Fees, Scholastic School and Neoplatonic Mystic, Askey and Courtful Culture.

"Louis Holy". Wooden sculpture. Paris, National Museum of the Middle Ages (Clean Museum) RMN-Grand Palais (Musée de Cluny - Musée National Du Moyen-âge) / Franck Raux

These things and show the museums of the Kremlin at their exhibition. Most of 75 exhibits were brought from France: from the Louvre, the National Museum of the Middle Ages (Klyuchni), the National Library. A number of particularly fragile, poorly carrying distant voyage works of the XIII century (carved bone, Limoges Enamel) released the State Hermitage to Moscow. But the most sensational exhibits are provided by the French side. In the artistic sense, the main decoration of the exhibition is fragments of the original stained glass windows of Saint-Chapel. In the sense of sacral - reliquary for storing a thorns crown, the truth is not medieval, and the post-revolutionary, Napoleonic times, a modest, but reminder of the pious ambitions of the Holy Louis, in his gathering the shrines considered themselves the successor of the emperors of Byzantium. As well as those who lived in the Kremlin, Moscow.

Especially for The Art Newspaper RUSSIA Crowner of Kommersant Culture

Museums of Moscow Kremlin
Louis Holy and Relic Saint-Chapel
March 3 - June 4

"Face for the future. Art of Europe 1945-1968 "

In difficult times promoting Russian contemporary art abroad, this project is comparable to the Parisian and the following works of our artists organized. Before Moscow, he stayed in Karlsruhe and Brussels, and in the capital he played with new paints, having enriched the unit of additional works - cleverly, accurately and flawlessly exposedly told the overall post-war history in the art of Eastern and Western Europe.

Fernian Leo
"Builders"
1951
GMI them. A.S. Pushkin

"Louis Holy and Relic Saint-Shapel"

Museums of Moscow Kremlin

Make an elegant exposition and collect rarity "with the world on thread" - what many years are famous for the Kremlin museums, arranging the exhibitions in their tiny current spaces. And just from such. For the first time, France left the famous stained glass windows of Saint-Chapel, the ancient manuscripts, a reliquary of the throat crown and many other unique objects, supplemented in the Kremlin with works of art and the artifacts of that era from their own collection, Hermitage and other great museums.

"Double wrapping"
Stained glass window from Saint Shapel
1230-1248
© Patrick Cadet / Center Des Monuments Nationaux

7th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art

New Tretyakovka

Changing the leadership of Biennale caused a lot of disputes and curvators, but judged, as you know, on affairs. And the main project of the current view under curability, returned us at the time of the most successful of all Biennale held in the capital, - the third in a row, held in the space of the Bakhmetiev garage in 2009 (supervised it). The exhibition of Hacegawa about a meeting of two worlds - classics and topical authors of contemporary art - showed an impressive block of works, united and poeticized international exhibition trends and gently fit into the context of the art of the 20th century from the collection of new Tretyakov.

Pierre Yug.
"Untitled / Human Mask"
2014
Courtesy The Arst, Hauser & Wirth, London, And Anna Lena Films, Paris

"Modernism without manifest

Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art

A two-part project of a collector, deployed in the halls of the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art this fall, discovered personal, painstakingly assembled for almost a quarter of a century, and a large reservoir of painters experiments who did not fit into a slim choir of mass propaganda and striking in the USSR for formalism. Shevchenko, Barto, Istriser, Fonvizin, Rusakov, Udaltsova, Yermilova-Platov, Greenberg - names of only some of them.

Eduard Crimmer
"Two peasants"
1929–1932
Collection of Roman Babicheva

Yekaterinburg

Ekaterinburg claims the role of the cultural capital and is quite deserved. This year, at least two impressive exhibition projects were held here - a blockbuster, which gave an exhaustive picture of the Russian avant-garde based on things from the collections of seven Russian museums, and already familiar to many biennical reviews. Of the many biennale of contemporary art, held this year in Russia, the 4th Ural (Commissioner, the curator of the main project Joan Ribas) presented to the public the highest level of projects, their conceptual unity (including the brilliantly prepared Art Residence Program) and the deep understanding of the claimed topic "New literacy."

Alisa Prudnikova and Joan Ribas
4th Ural Industrial Biennale Contemporary Art

"Cai Gotsian. October"

GMI named A. S. Pushkin, Moscow

A large retrospective, which united under the sign of the two metropolitan museums - the Tretyakov Gallery and the Jewish Museum and the Center for Tolerance. The last time the Tretyakovka showed the works of Lisar Lisitsky in 1990, but only from what was in its own funds. Now the Basel's Art Gallery Museum, Moritskburg Art Gallery, Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven, Museum of Standelek in Amsterdam, Paris Parkido Museum and National Art Museum of Azerbaijan and the National Museum of Art of Azerbaijan are attracted to the project. And even though the exhibition is not the most valuable items from the private archive of this master of the Russian avant-garde, designer, architect, the inventor of the Belun, transferred by His Son in the Shprengel Museum in Hannover, the exhibition turned out to be a grand.

El Lisitsky
"Constructor"
self-portrait
1924
Collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery

"Winter Palace and Hermitage in 1917. The story was created here. "

State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

From numerous exhibitions dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution, the Hermitage has opened later than all and was, perhaps the most penetrated. The post-revolutionary history of the Great Museum and its collections here again turned into a bloody-red - this is the main color of the scale exposure, which every visitor will be held by the Wille-Neil. Through the faces of the royal family and museum employees here tell a heavy story, which is undoubtedly everyone.

State Hermitage