From March 16, 2011 to April 23, 2011, Ana Tzarev gallery in collaboration with Galerie Blue Square and gallery SBM will exhibit a comprehensive body of work by Victor Razgulin. Victor Razgulin’s first show in New York promises to be a major exhibition for this renowned Moscow artist.
About Galerie Blue Square, Paris
Galerie Blue Square is dedicated to celebrating the talents of artists inspired by the principles and philosophies of the Russian avant-garde. Exploring ideas related to the creative insights of the Suprematist, Constructivist and non-objective art movements, gallery artists offer innovative responses to questions of form and content that integrate both traditional materials and new technologies.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Park Avenue Armory, 67th Street & Park Avenue
7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
An exciting evening for new collectors, as well as art and design enthusiasts, featuring cocktails & hors d’oeuvres, a private viewing of the Show, and an exclusive “Meet the Designers” reception with New York’s most illustrious interior designers and Wendy Goodman, Design Editor, New York magazine.
The panel discussion will focus on collecting art across eras, from Old Masters to Contemporary Art. Panelists will address how they bring together work in both of these fields and how to look at collections of art that span many centuries.
Wednesday, January 19, 6:30pm
The Frick Collection, 1 East 70th Street, NYC
Vera Iliatova, First Days, 2010, Oil on canvas, 50 by 40 inches. Courtesy of Monya Rowe Gallery.
Vera Iliatova
Terrain Vague
January 13 – February 19
Monya Rowe Gallery
Terrain Vague is Vera Iliatova’s third solo exhibition of paintings at Monya Rowe Gallery. Iliatova received a MFA in Painting/Printmaking from Yale University, CT and a BA from Brandeis University, MA. She has also undergone studies at Sorbonne University, Paris, France and completed a residency at Skowhegan School of Art , ME. She recently had a solo exhibition at La Montagne Gallery, Boston, MA and her workhas recently been included in group exhibitions at CTRL Gallery, Houston, TX; Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA; and Pace University, New York, NY. Iliatova was a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Nominee in 2009 and completed a studio residency at Marie WalshSharpe Space Program the same year. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America, The Houston Chronicle, The Boston Globe and The Philadelphia Inquirer, among others. Iliatova moved to the U.S. in 1991 at the age of 16 from St. Petersburg, Russia
and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Maria Mamkaeva. Traffic Lights. Mixed Media on Board, 24" x 24"
Agora Gallery presents works by Maria Mamkaeva in Elemental Realms.
Maria Mamkaeva lives and works in St. Petersburg, Russia. A member of the International Federation of Artists and the Russian Artists Union, her work has been exhibited in Russia, Switzerland and Taiwan
With a rich impasto technique, Maria Mamkaeva paints magnificent urban impressions of her native Russia. Buildings, street signs, shoppers, and automobiles are delineated in an approach that allows edges to melt together, creating the sense that the city is indeed one unit.
Reception:
Thursday, January 13, 2011, 6-8 pm
Exhibition Dates:
January 11, 2011 – February 1, 2011
Winners of Kandinsky Prize 2010, the biggest independent national Russian award in contemporary art, were announced today. Project of the Year went to Alexander Brodsky, one of the leaders of the ‘Paper Аrchitecture’ movement in the 1980s and an internationally recognized artist engaged in architectural projects, graphics, sculpture and installations.
Brodsky’s The Road installation was realized for the first time in 2010, as part of his solo exhibition at the Perm Museum of Contemporary Art.
The installation space is absorbed by twilight. There are four circles of shelves with striped mattresses, each with three floors. Between them are light boxes over little tables and windows, hidden by a white cloth billowing in the wind. On the tables you find glasses on coasters with jingling teaspoons. Pairs of identical men’s slippers are on the floor. The illusion of movement is created by sound and dynamic effects.
Brodsky uses a game of sounds, vibrations, light and shade, immersing the spectator in a borderline state: like you are here, but still a little bit “there, on that side”.
Mimi Ferzt Gallery is pleased to present Utopia Amiss, an exhibition of works by Mikhail Magaril produced in the past decade. Magaril’s artistic output is the product of various influences ranging from early Soviet avant-garde illustration to American Pop-art of the 1970’s. Highly diverse in media, format and subject-matter, the works represent the artist’s unorthodox view s on tradition, history, language and a fate of an individual seen through the prism of the Soviet cultural and political symbolism.
Born in Leningrad in 1950, Mikhail Magaril received his degree from the Moscow Printing Institute. Like many other unofficial Soviet artists, Magaril made his living as a book illustrator collaborating with leading Leningrad publishing houses. In 1990, Mikhail Magaril immigrated to the United States. In 1991, he began working at the Center for Book Arts, New York. In 1998, Magaril founded Summer Garden Editions, a private press devoted to limited editions of his livres d`artiste. The most recent exhibition of his paintings was held at the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia. Mikhail Magaril’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, the State Hermitage Museum as well as book collections of the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, Yale, Harvard and Cornell Universities, the British National Library, the Russian National Library and numerous private collections.
Ekaterina Rozhkova’s Veil of Happiness series of silkscreens contemplates the perpetual curiosity and relationship between the two great principal cultures of our globe, the East and the West.
Ekaterina Rozhkova currently lives and works in Moscow, Russia. She has been widely exhibited in Russia and throughout Europe in both solo and group shows. Veil of Happiness is her first solo exhibition with Sputnik Gallery. Her work is part of many corporate and private collections throughout the world.
Sputnik Gallery promotes contemporary photography, as well as other contemporary art, by emerging and accomplished artists largely unknown outside of Russia.
If all things in the world can be considered as sources of aesthetic experience, then art no longer holds a privileged position. Rather, art comes between the subject and the world, and any aesthetic discourse used to legitimize art must also necessarily serve to undermine it. Following his recent books Art Power and The Communist Postscript, in Going Public Boris Groys looks to escape entrenched aesthetic and sociological understandings of art—which always assume the position of the spectator, of the consumer. Let us instead consider art from the position of the producer, who does not ask what it looks like or where it comes from, but why it exists in the first place.
Boris Groys (1947, East Berlin) is Professor at New York University and Senior Research Fellow at the Academy of Design, Karlsruhe. He is the author of many books, including The Total Art of Stalinism, Ilya Kabakov: The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment, Art Power, The Communist Postscript, History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism.
Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle, Eds.
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