Museum Night 2016 at the Museum and Exhibition Complex of the Russian Academy of Arts - Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery

Date: May 21, 2016, 18.00 - 24.00

Venue: MVK PAX Art Gallery of Zurab Tsereteli (Moscow, 19 Prechistenka)

Admission to all exhibitions and events is free!

Dear friends! We invite you to the Museum and Exhibition Complex of the Russian Academy of Arts Zurab Tsereteli Gallery of Art, located in one of the most beautiful Moscow mansions of the Classicism era - Dolgorukovs Palace. The palace has a suite of wonderful vaulted halls on the ground floor, preserving the architectural space of the 18th century, and a number of magnificent ceremonial halls on the second floor, decorated in the middle of the 19th century. You can enjoy the beauty of architecture, visit interesting exhibitions, hear the performances of choral groups participating in the Crystal Chapel music festival, and become participants in a unique video bridge with Chilean musicians.

Program

Permanent exhibition of works by Zurab Tsereteli.

The exhibition presents the works of different years of the famous master. Picturesque canvases, monumental and easel sculpture, graphics, enamel panels and miniatures, works of decorative art, design work made the exposition amazingly bright and impressive.

Permanent exhibition of casts from works of antique sculpture from the collection of the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin.

The casts shown in the halls of the Gallery of Art reproduce mainly Roman copies from Greek originals created in different eras: in the classical (V – IV centuries BC), Hellenistic (IV – I centuries BC) and Roman (end. I BC - early IV century AD) periods. These exhibits show those statues whose casts have served as models for academic drawing for more than a century (Borghese fighter; Apollino; Aphrodite Medici or Venus Meditsitskaya; bust of Homer), representing the most important milestones in the historical development of Greek art, as well as those especially popular in our time (Nika of Samothrace).

The exhibition "Flowers and Birds" of paintings and drawings by a highly qualified artist at the Ministry of Culture of China, Yan Dunjian.

Yan Dunjian is an artist who honors traditional Chinese art, studying his characteristic features, follows his canons, without being afraid to experiment.

Exhibition "Results of the season 52".

The exhibition presents the work of almost 80 Moscow authors - theater artists. Such as Vladimir Arefyev (Medea, MAMT named after Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko), Sergey Barkhin (Bald Boy, Youth Theater), Stanislav Benediktov (Carmen, Bolshoi Theater), Larisa Lomakina (Boris Godunov, Lenkom), Yuri Harikov (“The Stable Principle”, Stanislavsky Electrotheatre), Nikolai Simonov (“Viy”, Theater of P. O. Tabakova), Natalya Voinova (“The Little Devil”, Pokrovsky Chamber Music Theater), Alexey Kondratyev )Walpurgis Night, Lenkom), Maksim Obrezkov (Duck Hunt, Et Cetera Theater), Victor Nikonenko (The Scarlet Flower, State Academic Theater named after Obraz Tsova), Stepan Lukyanov (“Sverliytsi”, Stanislavsky Electrotheatre), Polina Bakhtina (“Svan”, Center named after Vs. Meyerhold), Galina Solodovnikova (“Tales of Hoffmann”, Perm Opera and Ballet Theater), Nana Abdrashitova (“The Decameron”, Sovremennik Theater), Ekaterina Galaktionova (Vassa, Theater on M. Bronnaya), Ethel Ioshpa (Salome, Novaya Opera Theater), etc.

18.00 - Grand opening - VII International Festival and Competition of Professional and Amateur Choirs “Crystal Chapel”, dedicated to the Days of Slavic culture and writing in Moscow.

The opening ceremony was attended by President of the Russian Academy of Arts Zurab Tsereteli, President of the Slavic Fund of Russia Galina Bogolyubova, representatives of Rossotrudnichestvo, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, representatives of the embassies of Belarus, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the unique atmosphere of the Yabloko Hall, classical, folk, modern music, masterpieces of Russian spiritual classics will sound.

21.00 - Beginning of video broadcasting of a unique video bridge with participants in choir meetings in Chile, where they are organized by the Uiljo Uiljo Foundation.

For this video of the bridge, the director of the festival Juan Karlos Perez Salas prepared a song that we will sing together and the text of this song is very close to all the participants of the Crystal Chapel Festival:… why in a single world where a person lives, we are divided and separated from each other friend? Why not get together all as brothers and sisters, in Love and in the World?

Details on www.rah.ru .