Carnival of dolls Automatic translate

March 31, 2023 at 16:00 in the Exhibition Hall "Botanical Greenhouses" in the Museum-Reserve "Arkhangelskoye" will open the exhibition "Carnival of Dolls", which will present the work of 30 members of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, working in the genre of "art doll".

According to Vadim Zadorozhny, General Director of the Arkhangelskoye Museum-Reserve: “The exhibition space of the Botanical Greenhouses is a platform for new art inside a monument of Russian artistic culture, which has become world famous not only for the majestic beauty of the estate itself, but also for the variety of unique museum collections. Keeping the paradigm set by Nikolai Borisovich Yusupov Sr., we strive to preserve diversity and fill the space of greenhouses with objects of contemporary art.”

Carnival, with its theatricalization of life, hoaxes and freedom, has been and remains a space of life where everything is controlled by abundance, play, laughter. The art doll embodies these elements of carnival life like no other work of art. Able to combine the features of nationality and elitism, tradition and experiment, the doll is universal, and for all its sophistication, it is perceived as something very open and close to a person.

Royal persons and street musicians, funny monsters and beautiful girls, funny jokers and sages create an atmosphere in which the visitor can part with all seriousness and everyday life, and return to the freshness of the world of the game presented at the Carnival of Dolls exhibition.

“One of the articles about the art doll emphasizes that this young art rethinks the traditional concept of a doll in favor of a complex visual image with a special, unique aesthetics,” says curator Mikhail Yushkevich about the new exhibition.

There is a belief that if there are several dolls in the same room, they begin to communicate with each other, creating complex semantic compositions. You can check if this is the case by joining the Carnival of Dolls from March 31 to May 10, 2023.