Premonition of the Cosmos

Alexandra de Viveiros gallery in Paris is pleased to present "Premonition of the Cosmos", a group show around Russian cosmism, a philosophical current according to which the surrounding world is a Cosmos, that is to say an order which guarantees the appearance and the sustainability of the life, unlike the chaos that threatens both. Following cosmist philosophers, artists reinterpret the theme of the cosmos as a common home for all of us. The exhibition brings together a set of new projects of the invited artists as well as less recent works: video, photographs, installations, paintings and drawings are presented there in a new way. January - February 2020.

Private Moon in Flachau

Private Moon installation in minus20degree art
and architecture winter festival in Flachau,
Austria from 23th January 2020

Birds Flying Inside the Head

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art is celebrating its 20th birthday and displays exhibits from collections of different years. Art curator of the exhibition Diana Dzhangveladze tells about the highlights to focus on.

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA) is celebrating its 20th anniversary with the exhibition ‘MMOMA 99/19' held on the occasion. Three floors of the mansion on Petrovka now house 20 themed venues created by star art curators displaying exhibits from collections of different years. The exhibition reflects their perspectives both on the Museum's holdings and on contemporary art in particular.
Read in collaborative article by mos.ru and Mosgortur Agency about the exhibition's highlights.

Visiting pages of the past with Oleg Voskoboinikov

The medievalist and translator Oleg Voskoboinikov dedicated his venue to the dialogue of contemporary and medieval art.

'I asked my museum colleagues to choose something medieval from the holdings, but with a modern twist. I think that the image of a person in art is a decent topic to discuss together and to address the audience with. At the same time, I wanted to make a traveller stop in the middle of the display and tell him: 'Think for a while'. I believe that this spot is a place to rest, have a break,' he says.

There are just a few exhibits in the History Hall, with 'Composition with a Shovel' by Andrei Grositsky being one of its highlights. Voskoboinikov invites visitors to focus on the shovel. The curator points that work has become both a curse and a blessing for humankind, its fate, and a metaphor for the earthly path.
'When I took a look at the photo of this picture, I realised that the shovel can tell the viewer a lot, and put him or her on a better footing. There is also some optimistic flavour in this work — though it is a vintage shovel with a broken handle, it looks reliable, it gives a sense of safety,' he said.
The paintings 'Birds Flying Inside the Head' by Leonid Tishkov, 'Little Witch' by Mikhail Grobman, 'War' by Boris Anisfeld, 'Selfportrait' by Dmitry Prigov, and Komar and Melamid's urban angels diptych elaborate on man’s earthly journey. The work embodies the curator's idea that 'We are born to shovel, but at the end we return to heaven'.

 https://www.mos.ru/en/news/item/68038073/

Their Homes Are in Heaven

Their Homes Are in Heaven is a new artwork in which photos from family album of local people are portrait in a window frame. minus20degrees biennale in Flachau, Austria
23-25 January 2020
3 days | 9 artists | 20 architects | 1 global village

The Moon in National Maritime Museum

Private Moon, 2003-2019, installation, two light side object: metal, acrylic glass, LED, in National Maritime Museum
in Greenwich, London. The Moon exhibition until January 5th 2020

Endless light column, homage to Constantin Brancusi, metal, wood, acrylic glass, LED, 7m height.  Light installation for Cluj-Napoka, Romania, 2018 was realised in November, reinstalled 2019 on Lights On Romania, Cetatuia Hill.

Private Moon in Oslo

Private Moon mobile installation from 1th until 3th November 2019 on http://fjordoslo.com/

Private Moon in Oslo

Private Moon mobile installation in Fjord Oslo Light Fest from 1th until 3th November 2019 

Journey of the Private Moon in Prague

Private Moon project in Russia. Timeless the exhibition of Russian art at DOX Prague until December 2019

The Cloud and Spindle

The Cloud and Spindle. Облако и веретено. 2019. 

Raw sheep wool from mountain village, wood, firing, sound. 

Dedicated to Kosta Khetagurov

Power of Dream exhibition in Japan

Knitted Rocket. 

Honor Desk of Russian Cosmists

Ladomir album

Ladomir installation

The Moon of Matsuo Basho

The Moon and the Night in Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Power of Dream expo,
Chiba, Japan until 27 October 2019

Their Homes Are in Heaven

Their Homes Are in Heaven. In Memory of the Volga German. 2019. Wood, acrylic glass, LED,
archive photos. On the Yellow Sound exhibition in Tsaritsyno museum until 17 November 2019.

Drafty House

Drafty House. 2018.
Installation: carpets, fans, lamp, news paper, motion detector.

Carpets, apparently ordinary, were hanging in Ossetian, Ingush and Russian houses. Houses with high strong walls, on the slopes of mountains, under a high sky. It seemed that nothing was stronger than a home, in which was safe and warm. But disasters break to people "from behind the carpet". This is our common home, because you can not destroy someone else's house without destroying your own.

At the exhibition "Moving Point" in The State Tretyakov Gallery, 3th floor, hall 34, June-July 2019

https://vimeo.com/290110258

The Moon in Setouchi

The Moon of Hitomaro. 2019. Old boat, metal, arcrylic glass, LED. Setouchi Triennale from 26th April. Shamijima, Sakeido, Seto Inland Sea, Japan. 

In imagination, the one who is already gone begin to live in the landscape. We miss the expanse and the infinity of a field. The school was abandoned and become alone. As bookshelf was. The voices of children were hidden between the pages of books, however the books flew away following heron. Now, instead of books, there are the Moon and the Sun floating above the salt hill in the empty book shelves. A bit of bitter salt remains, and there are waves of sky blue and white. The shape of one human being goes crossing the wilderness. At the unmanned shore, unmanned boat is awaiting him. Look, the sailboat of the moon is shining above that.

In the sea of heaven

Cloud waves rise and the moon boat sails

Into a forest of stars,

Then is seen no more

Kakinomoto Hitomaro 『Manyoshu』(Volume 7, 1068)

Solveig in Japan

Solveig. Landscape of Memories. 2004-2019. Salt, video, wood, wool, music by E.Grieg. Installation in Setouchi Triennale from 26th April 2019. Shamijima, Sakaide, Seto Inland Sea, Japan

The Sun in Setouchi

"The Moon and the Sun in empty bookshelves". 2019. Acrylic glass, salt, LED, wood. Setouchi Triennale, from 26 April
Shamijima, Sakaide, Seto Inland Sea, Japan.

La Lune privee a Grand Palais

The 50-year anniversary of the first human step on the Moon is an opportunity to study, present and celebrate the long history that links humans with this familiar celestial body, through the artworks and objects that embody the countless visions and emotions it has inspired. This five-part exhibition is a journey to the Moon, through dimensions both real and imaginary. Each stage takes visitors on a voyage through time, revealing artistic creations from Antiquity to the modern day, produced mainly in Europe but also by African, Arab and Far Eastern civilisations.

Private Moon in Grand Palais

Cosmism of Leonid Tishkov

Cosmism of Leonid Tishkov in National Center for Contemporary Art,
Vladikavkaz. Until 20th April 2019

The Wall

The Wall, installation dedicated to deaf blind writer Olga Skorokhodova

in NCCA, Moscow until 6th May 2019