Special project "The art of transporting art"

The Museum of Russian Impressionism presents a special project "The Art of Transporting Art", prepared in partnership with the art logistics company Fineartway. It is a conceptual continuation of the exhibition "Avant-garde: on a cart in the XXI century" and tells about the processes that remain out of sight of visitors - from the packing and transportation of paintings to the installation and dismantling of expositions. On the third floor of the museum there are interactive objects and works by contemporary artists: Misha Most, Valery Chtak, Jacob Yakubov and Grigory Tsvetkov.

In the 1920s, exhibits from traveling exhibitions were often transported on carts, and ordinary hay and roughly knocked together wooden boxes were used as packaging material. Today, museums have at their disposal special vehicles and professional equipment: cars with air suspension, climatic boxes and acid-free packaging materials. The special project explains why special boxes can cost several tens or even hundreds of thousands of rubles and how to safely transport a fragile plaster sculpture, a painting on canvas or a graphic sheet under glass, and why transporting art is also art. Visitors will learn how delicate handling is required when working with museum exhibits, see the differences between household packaging materials and professional ones, and make sure that the selected adhesive tape,

The exposition presents a graphic sketch of the work “TRANSPORTATION” by Russian street artist Misha Most from the series “The Future of the Past / The Future of the Past”, created to decorate the car of the art logistics company Fineartway. For the first time Valery Chtak’s installation "Anarquismo individualista" is demonstrated, in which wooden boxes act as canvases. She refers to the work of avant-garde artists who used boards, pieces of wallpaper, linoleum in their works. Jacob Yakubov also prefers non-standard materials. Made in the form of an air-bubble film, the concrete object "Pop It" becomes "a symbol of the impermanence of the material environment, in which there is nothing but air."

The exhibition also includes a video performance “packing-unpacking”, which presents the stages of packing and exhibiting art objects: from opening the climate box to hanging them in museum halls.

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