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Thinking Realism
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Contemporary Russian art, as thinks the curator of this project, is tackling anew the rather ambitious problems first posed 150 years ago and sees its duty to fulfil the true programme of Russian realism of the 19th century, both aesthetic and social. In Russia, Peter I inculcated secular figurative representation as a “modern art in its own way”(compared with the “timeless” icon) as a language of progress and innovation. Thus, paradoxically, Russian artists for a long time kept a certain inner distance from the notion of art as such. Therefore, realism in Russia, especially throughout the 19th century, acted as a form of self-reflection, as a critique of art, in particular, easel paintings (“overvalued images”) in their own forms. The Tretyakov Gallery contains a permanent exposition of Russian classical art with which will be interspersed about twenty works of present-day authors (photographs, drawings, videos, sketches of installations and literary projects), which comment on and dialogue with specific works. Guided tours on “Russian Realism as Seen through Today’s Eyes” will be provided to the public.
artists
- Yury Albert
- Sergey Bratkov
- Erik Bulatov
- Gor Chakhal
- Olga Chernysheva
- Dmitry Gutov
- Ilya Kabakov
- Boris Mikhailov
- Anatoly Osmolovsky
- Pavel Pepperstein
- Dmitry Prigov and others
project supported by SeverStal and WAM magazine
 A full-length article about the project will be in the catalogue of the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art which is
coming out on the 1st March.
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