Exhibition "Personal history" Automatic translate

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA) presents the Personal History exhibition, specially prepared for display in Irkutsk as part of the Territory. Irkutsk "with the support of the POLUS company. The project includes more than 80 works from the collection of the museum by such authors as: Kazimir Malevich, Alexandra Exter, Zurab Tsereteli, Grisha Bruskin, Andrei Bilzho, Leonid Purygin, Yuri Albert, Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe, Natalia Turnova, Tatiana Akhmetgalieva and others. The exhibition will run in the Main Building of the Irkutsk Art Museum (Lenin St., 5) from May 18 to July 18.

Using the example of classical examples of fine art, as well as new media, the viewer will be able to follow how in the middle of the XX - beginning of the XXI century the method of portraiture was transformed and how the image of a person takes on new meanings in the works of artists. The exposition also includes works from the Irkutsk Art Museum named after VP Sukachev with an impressive art collection. Such cooperation gives an opportunity to look at "our" and "other’s" exhibits in a new light. The curators are employees of the scientific department of MMOMA - Katerina Zaitseva and Vladimir Prokhorov.

The exhibition contains three thematic blocks: "Private", "Public", "Personal". The first two sections show the variety of portraits that are created in two different contexts: inside private life, for personal memory, and, on the contrary, in a collective field, for public presentation. The third section of the exhibition - "Personal" - is devoted to the history of the depiction of faces: how is the manner in which artists paint them changing, what formal experiments are put on this most important component of any portrait?

The Personal History project was a continuation of the regional exhibition program of MMOMA and the Territory festival of contemporary art, the purpose of which is cultural exchange, maintaining a single rhythm of the country’s artistic life, as well as acquaintance with one of the largest museum collections dedicated to the art of the 20th and 21st centuries.