Exhibition "Gathering the City" Automatic translate
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September 12 at the Museum of Moscow will open the exhibition "Gathering the City", which explores the boundaries between personal and museum collections.
For the Museum of Moscow “Gathering the City” is a “hooligan” project and at the same time sincere and personal, showing the museum history from a hidden, non-parade side. Within the framework of the exhibition, for the first time, the most unusual and sometimes strange objects of the funds will be shown: outlandish optical instruments, orders and insignia of unusual professions, kopooshki, syringes, Esmarch’s mugs and much more. The purpose of some exhibits is still unknown, but guests of the Museum of Moscow will be able to try themselves in the role of researchers and study the past by its artifacts.
The concept of the exposition was born two years ago, the author of the idea and one of the curators of the exhibition is Alina Saprykina, the former director of the Museum of Moscow. The project is devoted to a visionary connection with the world of things and why lone collectors are so important for a modern museum. After all, museum collections grow precisely from the collections of their founders - those individualistic collectors who find the right language to describe their familiar culture through the objective world.
The latest trend in today’s social practice is conscious consumption. But the phenomenon of personal collecting proclaims falling out of social patterns, behavioral oddities, perseverance and peremptory, deliberate subjectivity of taste. Visitors will see eight personal meetings detailing the practices of single collectors. Among the exhibits are “home-made design” by Vladimir Arkhipov, tape recordings of jazz by Anatoly Perov, email art by Ilya Semenenko-Basin and painted second-hand publications by Dmitry Tsvetkov. As well as vintage clothes from Alexander Petlyura, the thaw design of Artem Dezhurko, the old technique of the Museum of Industrial Culture and the "note of antiquary" Irakli Meskhii.
Evgenia Kikodze, curator of the exhibition: “The new project of the Museum of Moscow shows how, for museum practice, focused primarily on the preservation and demonstration of a unique material heritage, the subjectivity of free collecting is a very convenient tactic that helps to dialogue with artifacts of the past. The independence and individuality of modern gathering works with the mind of the viewer, "tuning" his vision to highlight the special and original, impossible for the current world supermarket. "