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The Viewer in a Twentieth Century Art Environment
Program curator: Margarita Kostrits
This series of seminars, held in the Marble Palace, give participants a unique opportunity to become directly acquainted with twentieth century artworks from the State Russian Museum's Ludwig Collection.
In 2000-2001 there will be four thematic series of seminars.
Sessions will last 1.5 to 2 hours.
«The viewer in the 20th century art environment» is designed for students and postgraduates, as well as for anyone who has an interest in 20th-century art. This seminar has been organized by the PRO ARTE Institute in partnership with the State Russian Museum.
Each session will include:
- An opportunity to get to know at first hand works of art from the Russian Museum's collections of modern art (which are unique in Russia), including the Ludwig Museum at the Marble Palace, the archives of the Department of Latest Tendencies at the Russian Museum itself, and various temporary exhibitions. Tours will be accompanied by commentaries by art historians.
- A free discussion designed to develop in those who attend the seminar, capacities for perception, evaluation, and discussion of modern art.
- Each session will be accompanied by a special thematic exhibition.
Sessions will be led by Ye.N. Petrova (Deputy Academic Director of the State Russian Museum) and Ye.Yu. Andreeva, V.N. Belyaeva, A.D. Borovsky, M.Yu. German, N. Zhvitiashvili, I.N. Karasik, M.A. Kostrits, and O.V. Turkina of the Department of Latest Tendencies.
In 2000-2001 the following thematic series of seminars will also be held:
- «National and trans-national in modern art»
- Abstraction and realism in post-War art
- Political and artistic ideology: interrelation and repulsion
- American photorealism and its influence on image-making in the 20th century
- The religious idea in 20th-century art
- The idea of antiquity in the 20th century
- Metamorphoses of abstractionism in the 20th century
- Cinema and fine art in the 20th century
- The painting in the 20th century: from painting to narrative.
- «The Russian contribution to the trans-national artistic project»
- The trans-national idea and Petersburg art in the second half of the 20th century
- Names and tendencies in the 20th century
- Il'ya Kabakov and Moscow artists
- Photography: the art of the new reality
- St Petersburg names: issues and movements
- Sots-art and socialist realism in 20th-century art
- Conceptualism: an influential movement in 20th-century art
- The life of tradition and national art in the 20th century
- «The museum and 20th-century art»
- The museum as representation. 20th-century art: «Russia — the West»
- Collecting in the 20th century
- Neo-expressionism: the concept of painting in the 20th century
- Evolution and movements in 20th-century art. Pop art, conceptualism, photorealism ... Peter Ludwig: patron, collector, investigator
- The «image» of modern art and the Ludwig Museum exhibition
- Territories of modern art in the museum.
- 20th-century art: the context of the art museum, problems, and solutions.
- «Art without history. The 20th century» (for children)
- Our space in art
- The territory of colours in art
- Objects and forms in art today
- Many «pictures» within one picture
- The mobile world of art: video art
- Looking for «stories» in art
- «Walks» through the computer reality of art
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