An exhibition has opened on the occasion of Cosmonautics Day at the Museum of Modern Art

MOSCOW. Since April 9, a multimedia project has opened in the Museum of Modern Art, named after the famous phrase with which instructor Mark Gallay began training the first six astronauts - "Ready for the flight?" The exposition, representing the works of forty Russian artists on space topics, is dedicated to Cosmonautics Day, a holiday that has become the starting point of a new stage in the study of interplanetary spaces by man.

The curators of the project, even at the stage of preparation for the exhibition, were tasked with future participants - to fill the images of space and cosmonauts with a new, modern meaning. Some artists who received an offer to participate in the project already had their works ready to meet the requirements of the exhibition organizers. However, most of the artists created their works specifically for the project.

The result was the work of various techniques and styles, combined in a single exhibition space. The exhibition housed paintings and installations, sculptures and videos. In various genre works, where the public will be able to see the philosophers’ reasoning, and the slight irony, and the imagination of the authors, there is a light flair of romance.

This is not surprising, because over the decades since the first flights, the romantic attitude towards space has changed, it has passed into the stage of ironic-philosophical perception. However, for contemporary artists, the images of Heaven, Cosmos, the Universe, being no longer a fashionable theme, as before, remain a source of inspiration. All the artists’ works that made up the exhibition were completed in the 21st century, but perfectly convey the mood of the era of the romance of space travel.

The "space" project, housed in the Museum of Modern Art, is open until May 11th.

Ludmila Trautmane © Gallerix.ru