Model for a new life, scale 1:
1. Vanguard on Shabolovka

January 26 at 19:00 in the renewed space of the gallery "Zamoskvorechye" * ("On Shabolovka") of the Association "Exhibition Halls of Moscow" will open the exhibition "Model for a new life, scale 1: 1. Vanguard on Shabolovka. "

The exhibition project presents the area within a radius of one kilometer from the Shukhov Tower as an ideal experimental model of the new life of the avant-garde era. The close proximity in the Shabolovka district of innovative buildings for various purposes from the 1920s - early 1930s allows you to recreate the reformed reality of the Soviet Union in its entirety: to talk about social life, anti-religious propaganda, a new school and much more. Despite the fact that the avant-garde experiment was not fully successful, we can find and decipher its traces, try to “reassemble” the conceived ideal world of the late 1920s - early 1930s.

The public building of the Havsko-Shabolovsky housing estate.

Exhibition-documentation “Model for a new life, scale 1: 1. Avant-garde on Shabolovka ”introduces several of the most interesting objects from the point of view of history and architectural typology that appeared on Shabolovka in the 1920–1930s. The heroes of the exhibition are:

- Radio station named after the Comintern (1919-1921);

- The giant school MONO on Drovyanaya Square (early 1930s);

- The first commune in Moscow “1st Zamoskvoretsky Association” (1926–1929);

- Havsko-Shabolovsky housing estate of ASNOVA group (1929-1931);

- Community hostel for students of the Textile Institute (1929–1930);

- Don baths (early 1930s);

- Department store Mostorg (1929-1936);

- The first crematorium and columbarium in Moscow (1927 - ser. 1930s).

Shukhov tower and school on Drovyanaya square 1940.

The architects of the exhibition - the “k-workshop” - created a dynamic space in the gallery’s large hall from recognizable “signs” of buildings, which simultaneously refer to the innovative furniture of the 1920s, museum agitation equipment, and modern logos that “brand” the territory. Showcase objects represent photographs, architectural drawings, archival documents, film materials and household items related to the history of buildings and their inhabitants. Moving from a “stop” to a “stop” is, in fact, the path from birth to the death of a new Soviet citizen, as he was seen by visionary architects.

In the small hall of the gallery are exhibited projects and photographs of design students "SK Bauhaus-30", studying with A.P. Ermolaev - architect, designer, artist, head of the TAF workshop, which has settled in Shabolovka in recent years. Participants in this section of the exhibition reflect on the value of the architectural heritage of the avant-garde in the Shabolovka district and on the possible relevance of the ideas of a “new way of life” today. This section is a reflection and a modern answer to the challenges of the avant-garde era, the answer of people as young as the recipients of the projects of communal houses, baths, housing estates.

An educational program is planned as part of the exhibition: on Thursdays - lectures by architectural historians and cultural experts on Shabolovka monuments and the new avant-garde typology, on Saturdays - a series of film screenings telling about the new way of life and the changing gender roles in the 1920s. The first lecture of the educational program - “House-communes,“ capacitors of a new way of life ”- will be held on January 29 at 19:30. Lecturer - Alexander Selivanov.

Project curators:

Alexandra Selivanova - curator of the main part of the exposition, architectural historian, head of the Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka, curator of the lecture hall of the Museum of Moscow.

Larisa Klimova - curator of the student section of the exhibition, architect, designer, artist, teacher.

Anastasia Andreeva - co-curator of the student section of the exhibition, designer, teacher.

Organizers:

Association "Exhibition Halls of Moscow"

Zamoskvorechye Gallery (On Shabolovka)

Zamoskovorechye Gallery (On Shabolovka) in the Danilovsky District of Moscow was founded more than 20 years ago as an exhibition hall on the basis of the Moskvorechye creative association in the center of the Khavsko-Shabolovsky housing estate, designed in the late 1920s by architects N. Travin and B. Flea. Initially, this area was conceived as a hymn to the new post-revolutionary Moscow. Here and today, many avant-garde monuments have been preserved, for example, next to the Zamoskvorechye Gallery there is the world-famous architectural masterpiece of the 20th century - the Radio Tower of the engineer V. Shukhov. Since 1991, the gallery has organized and held more than 600 art exhibitions in Moscow, in other cities of Russia and abroad. The gallery plans to actively participate in network projects combining galleries from different regions of Moscow as part of a single exhibition idea. One of the accents is projects dedicated to the avant-garde, as well as historical and local history projects related to the comprehension of the cultural heritage of the Danilovsky district and its popularization. Since 2014, curator Larisa Greenberg.

The Avant-Garde Center at the Enlightenment of Workers Library is a regular partner of the exhibition projects at the Shabolovka Gallery. This is an open platform for the exchange of knowledge, a place for scientific work and inspiration, dedicated to the art of the first half of the twentieth century. The avant-garde center is located in the same building as the gallery, in the former community center of the Havsko-Shabolovsky housing estate.

The workshop-TAF (Theater of Architectural Form) has existed for more than 30 years, its activities are carried out in a variety of cultural fields - easel work, multi-genre design, exhibition and exhibition work, publishing projects, the theater of plastic thinking - intersecting in the field of design and art pedagogy. The head of the workshop is an architect, designer, artist, professor at the Moscow Architectural Institute (State Academy) Alexander Ermolaev. According to the program developed by Alexander Ermolaev, students of SK Bauhaus-30, the design department of Moscow Construction College No. 30, are studying.

* In connection with the reorganization of the exhibition spaces that are part of the Moscow Exhibition Halls Association, the Zamoskvorechye Gallery will be renamed the Shabolovka Gallery.

Dates of the exhibition: January 26 - March 29

Address: metro Shabolovskaya, metro Tula, Serpukhov Val, d. 24, building 2, + 7 (495) 954-30-09

Gallery hours: Tue - sun. 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.