Exhibition "Vocabulary of the Industrial Landscape. Overcoming Stereotypes"

September 18 at 18.00 in the Perm Library. A.M. Gorky will host the opening of the exhibition “The vocabulary of the industrial landscape. Overcoming stereotypes. " The exhibition was prepared by the Perm Art Gallery in partnership with the Regional Universal Library. A.M. Gorky. This exhibition project is being implemented as part of the parallel program of the 4th Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art with the support of the V. Potanin Charity Fund.

Exhibition “Vocabulary of the Industrial Landscape. Overcoming stereotypes ”will present the industrial history of the Ural region and Russia through works of art, periodicals and documents. The industrial landscape is a special artistic language for comprehending global industrial processes, the total superiority of man over nature, a reflection of the scope of construction projects and the greatness of national labor, the ideology of the industrial center. At the same time - this is the history of Perm throughout the entire twentieth century. The PHCH collection has a significant collection of paintings and graphics (from the 1920s to the 1980s) that visualizes this feature of regional history - the industrial landscape. At the exhibition, it will be possible to see the industrial landscapes of Alexander Repin, Ivan Borisov, Viktor Kuzin, Anatoly Tumbasov, Konstantin Sobakin and other remarkable artists.

The regional universal library will present periodicals, collections of documents and other information materials at the exhibition, which are also part of the cultural experience of industrial history. They document the time of landmark changes, the processes of materialization of ideology in social institutions, technologies and social groups.

Works of Perm artists from the collection of the Perm Regional Museum and private collections will also be digitally displayed.

An educational program for schoolchildren and students is planned as part of the exhibition. The participation of art historians and cultural scientists, artists, sociologists and historians will allow us to present different perspectives on the industrial history of the country and the Urals region, to identify and describe its specific components presented in industrial artistic images and visual information markers.

The curator of the exhibition is Igor Martynov, Ph.D. in art criticism, head of the Western European art sector at the Perm State Art Museum.

IT-technologies - Anatoly Bobrov, Head of the Information Systems Department of the underground gas storage facility.

Exhibition “Vocabulary of the Industrial Landscape. Overcoming stereotypes ”will work in the library to them. A.M. Gorky from September 18 to September 29, 2017.

Exhibition work schedule:

09/18/17 Opening of the exhibition. 6 p.m. Regional universal library. Lenin, 70 (2nd floor, right wing, interactive hall)

09/19/17 The library is closed. XVI International Scientific and Practical Conference "Electronic Age of Culture".

09/20/17 From 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.

09/21/17 "USSR ON THE CONSTRUCTION" - THE INFORMATION LOCOMOTIVE OF THE INDUSTRIAL EPOCH.
Presenter - Head of the Western European Art Sector of the Perm Art Gallery, candidate of art history Igor Martynov
6 p.m. Regional universal library. Lenin, 70 (2nd floor, right wing, interactive hall)

09/22/17 until 5 p.m.

09/25/17 FROM DEPARTMENTAL TO HONORARY. SIGNS OF THE INDUSTRIAL EPOCH.
The host is Vadim Lygin, archive manager of the Perm Art Gallery.
6 p.m. Regional universal library. Lenin, 70 (2nd floor, right wing, interactive hall)

09/26/17 INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPE AS A STEREOTYPE OF THE HISTORY OF THE SOVIET ART.
Presenter - Head of the Western European Art Sector of the Perm Art Gallery, candidate of art history Igor Martynov
Regional universal library. Lenin, 70 (2nd floor, right wing, interactive hall)

09/27/17 Vocabulary of the INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPE. PERM DIALECT.
The host is Igor Martynov, candidate of art criticism, head of the Western European art sector of the Perm Art Gallery. 6 p.m. Regional universal library. Lenin, 70 (2nd floor, right wing, interactive hall)

09/28/17 The library is closed (sanitary day).

09/29/17 INDUSTRIAL RHYTHM OF AQUARIUS. MEETING WITH ARTIST VICTOR KUZIN. 3 p.m. Regional universal library. Lenin, 70 (2nd floor, right wing, interactive hall)