At the end comes the beginning ...

Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin
Stella art foundation
present the exhibition:
“In the end comes the beginning…”

Dates: May 10 - September 10, 2019
Venue: Italy, Venice, San Fantin Church
Exhibition curators: Marina Loshak, Olga Shishko

The Pushkin Museum, together with the Stella Art Foundation, will present in Venice a special project of the Pushkin XXI direction - an exhibition dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the great Venetian artist Jacopo Tintoretto, which was called "At the end of the beginning comes…". The project is announced to participate in the parallel program of the 58th Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art.

The work of contemporary artists Dmitry Krymov, Irina Nakhova, Gary Hill and! Mediengruppe Bitnik will be shown at the San Fantin Church. The installations will fill the entire space of the church and engage the viewer in a special atmosphere. The exhibition will feature the canvas of Tintoretto himself, as well as the work of one of his followers - modernist artist Emilio Vedov.

The theme of the 58th Venice Biennale is the dictum “God forbid you live in an era of change”, thinking about the crucial times when the canons are crumbling and the worldview is changing. The project of the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin and the Stella Art Foundation are dedicated to artists who predetermine these changes, invent new forms and violate existing rules, thereby preparing contemporaries for a new stage.

The era of Tintoretto is the time of the breakdown of an established worldview. Giordano Bruno, a contemporary of the artist, offered a new look at world order: man is no longer the center of the universe, but only a particle of the infinite Universe. In his work, Tintoretto achieves clarity and integrity, the dynamic unity of man and space, which did not know the previous era. He seeks to break out of the grip of traditions and authorities, find new ideas and ways to implement them.

The main character of Tintoretto’s works is space. This is not only the place for which the work was created, but the infinite universe embodied in his painting. Tintoretto’s approach is revolutionary for his time and is close to modern media artists: the idea of immersiveness - immersion in space, comes to the fore in his work. This approach is also followed by artists who will create four installations specifically for the Church of San Fantin.

The church of San Fantin in its current form was built in the 16th century, and the first religious buildings in this place date back to the 10th century. Now it is under reconstruction, after which it will turn into a cultural site. Thus, the Pushkin Museum exhibition will be the first event that will open to the general public access to this monumental structure. The exposition decision of the exhibition is conceptual: the artists’ works will be shown alternately, filling in the whole space and completely capturing the attention of the audience.

The Pushkin Museum to them. A.S. Pushkin took part in the parallel program of the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017, then the first international project created under the auspices of the direction “Pushkin XXI”, “Man as a Bird. Images of travel. "

REFERENCE

State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin

One of the largest museums of foreign art in Russia. It was opened on May 31 (June 13), 1912. The founder of the museum is Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev, professor at the Department of Theory and History of Art of Moscow Imperial University, and the father of poet and prose writer Marina Tsvetaeva. The collection contains about 700 thousand works of different eras, from the era of ancient civilizations to the beginning of the XXI century. The main building of the museum is an architectural monument of the late XIX - early XX centuries, and the entire museum complex includes 27 buildings and structures. The museum houses paintings by French impressionist painters from the collections of Moscow merchants Sergei Ivanovich Schukin and Ivan Abramovich Morozov, works of art of Ancient Egypt from the collection of Vladimir Semenovich Golenishchev, as well as masterpieces of old masters and many other monuments.

Direction "Pushkin XXI"

Since 2014, the Pushkin Museum has been implementing a strategy aimed at attracting a new audience by including works of contemporary art in the usual museum exhibition. In 2017, the museum announced the creation of a new area of activity - the Pushkin XXI program, which is designed to give viewers an idea of the latest art and its most prominent representatives. The objective of the program is to demonstrate the art of the "new classics" who speak the language of modern forms.

The mission of "Pushkin XXI" is to demonstrate the great achievements of world art culture, in a combination of classical art and modern. "Pushkin XXI" is an innovative direction where all forms of presentation of modern art come into dialogue, from painting and sculpture to virtual reality and video art.

As part of the direction, the first collection of media art in Russia is being formed. The collection will include works created on the basis of the museum’s collection, site-specific projects and works that conceptualize classical art using the latest technology. Among the first acquisitions are video installations by Jonas Mekas (USA) and Gary Hill (USA), a video painting by Marianna Heske (Norway), as well as the trilogy of the Russian art group Provmyza (Sergei Provorov and Galina Myznikova) Despair (2008), Inspiration "(2010) and" Eternity "(2011).

Stella art foundation

A non-profit organization established in Moscow in November 2003 at the initiative of Stella Kesaeva. The aim of the foundation is to support contemporary art, in particular, to encourage projects related to the study of the art of the Moscow conceptual school. The collection of the fund includes more than a thousand works of art of the XX and XXI centuries. The Stella Art Foundation has implemented in Russia and abroad about a hundred projects dedicated to the works of Russian and foreign artists, including in the framework of the Venice Biennale. The foundation has successfully held six events. In 2011, 2013 and 2015, Stella Kesaeva was the commissioner of the Russian Pavilion. During these years, the Stella Art Foundation presented in the Russian Pavilion three exhibitions of works by artists of the school of Moscow conceptualism: "Empty Zones" by Andrei Monastyrsky, curated by Boris Groys (2011); “Danae” Vadim Zakharov, curator Udo Kittelman (2013); “Green Pavilion” Irina Nakhova, curator Margarita Tupitsyna (2015).

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