Concerts and lectures for the exhibition "Named by Vasari. Gothic" 12+

The Volga-Vyatka branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Arsenal) presents an event program for the exhibition “Named Vasari. Gothic" . In the 16th century, the art historian Giorgio Vasari considered the Gothic era to be barbaric and gloomy, but today it is not perceived so unambiguously, and medieval art is of particular interest to viewers and researchers.

Exhibition “Named Vasari. Gothic" continues to develop the main idea of the festival of texts about the art of "Vasari" - the convergence of art and the viewer - and becomes a platform where leading Russian art critics, curators and musicians present their views on the era and its artistic heritage.

Event program

January 15, 18:30
Public talk “Gothic in modern times. Modernity in Gothic”

Participants: Andrey Egorov - art critic, curator, head of the scientific department of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art; Sergey Khachaturov - art historian, art critic, curator; Daria Tkacheva - culturologist, head of the exhibition department of the Volga-Vyatka branch of the Pushkin Museum im. A. S. Pushkin (Arsenal).

Modern art is increasingly appearing in Gothic cathedrals, and modern art museums are turning to Gothic themes and plots. How do contemporary art and gothic culture intersect today? What happens when gothic and modern meet in museum and religious spaces? What in "Gothic" is of interest to artists and curators?

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January 28, 18:30
Concert "Reconstruction of the Mass"

Performers: Andrey Popovsky, Denis Sorokin, Marina Karpova, Ignat Khlobystin.

Mass - the main genre of medieval church music - spiritual chants performed during worship. Mass "Notre Dame" by Guillaume de Machaux (1300-1377) is the first author’s mass recorded on the full text of the ordinary. The reconstruction experience that the musicians undertake in this project is unusual: the vocal parts are performed on a flute, two guitars and a cello. As a result, the text is erased in the Mass, the solidity of the work breaks up into small particles, the sound is delayed, as in the Notre Dame Cathedral with its unique acoustics.

The concert will take place in the exhibition hall of the central risalit of the Arsenal. Entrance with a ticket to the 1st floor exhibitions, which must be purchased online.

February 9, 18:30
Lecture “Interpretation of Gothic. Famous Versions”

Lecturer: Sergey Kavtaradze - art critic, architectural historian, lecturer at the School of Design at the Higher School of Economics.

We have been familiar with Gothic as a style since childhood: princesses and knights, fairies and witches most often act against the backdrop of Gothic scenery. The lecture is devoted to the history of this style and its interpretations by prominent art historians.

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February 17, 18:30
Lecture “Originals and Casts. Works of medieval art in the collection of the Pushkin Museum”

Lecturer: Vasily Rastorguev - art critic, leading researcher of the department of old masters of the Pushkin Museum im. A. S. Pushkina, curator of the sculpture fund, consultant of the exhibition “Named by Vasari. Gothic".

The lecture is devoted to works from the collection of the Pushkin Museum included in the exhibition - their plots, artistic significance, history of study, place in the context of the development of Gothic sculpture. In the museum, the originals exist side by side with the historical collection of casts collected by I. V. Tsvetaev for the educational purposes of Moscow University. A separate hero of the story will be an Italian cross-crucifixion of the 13th century, which occupies a place of honor at the exhibition. Its exact attribution was established during the work on the project.

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February 27, 18:30
Concert “Reconstruction of the Mass. P.S"

In the second part of the concert diptych dedicated to the finish of the exhibition “Named Vasari. Gothic”, the premiere of a modern score, addressed to the traditions of medieval sacred music, will take place. The work “Battle” was created in 2021 by the young composer Ramazan Yunusov (Moscow) commissioned by the art group “Provmyza” as a soundtrack for their video work of the same name. It was Provmyza (Galina Myznikova and Sergey Provorov) who developed the architectural and artistic solutions for the exposition “Named Vasari. Gothic". "Battle" by Ramazan Yunusov will be performed by a group of students from the Nizhny Novgorod Music College named after M.A. Balakirev under the guidance of Ksenia Anufrieva, curator of Arsenal’s musical projects.

The concert will take place in the exhibition hall of the central risalit of the Arsenal. Entrance with a ticket to the 1st floor exhibitions, which must be purchased online.

The entrance to the cinema and concert hall of the Arsenal is located in the left wing on the 2nd floor, to the exhibition hall of the central risalit - in the right wing, 1st floor. Lectures and public talks can be watched online - in the Arsenal VKontakte group and on the museum website.