Yekaterina Selezneva

INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA

Yekaterina Selezneva
Summer in Switzerland

Special issue. SWITZERLAND–RUSSIA: ON THE CROSSROADS OF CULTURES

Masterpieces from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art at Martigny
By lending 50 masterpieces of Western European art to the Fondation Pierre Gianadda the world-famous Metropolitan Museum is sending out a clear message: it trusts the foundation implicitly. The memory of the mysterious story (with a happy ending) when the collection of French paintings from Moscow's Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts was arrested after the closure of the exhibition remains fresh in the minds of many. At the time, some Russian journalists and museum officials said in no uncertain terms that the Swiss partner did not quite live up to the standards of the Pushkin museum.

Hans Holbein in Basel
From April  1 to July 2, the Kunstmuseum Basel hosted an exhibition dedicated to Hans  Holbein the Younger. There are many reasons why the exhibition occurred in  Basel: Holbein, born in the German town of Augsburg in 1497 (or 1498), moved to  the Swiss city-republic of Basel in 1514 with his brother Ambrosius, who was  also a painter. Erasmus of Rotterdam also lived in Basel; the city had a  university and excellent publishing houses.

Yekaterina Selezneva
A Vernissage at Spaso House

Special issue N1. USA–RUSSIA: ON THE CROSSROADS OF CULTURES

During this 150th anniversary year, the halls of the Treyakov Gallery have presented many brilliant special exhibitions. There has also been great demand abroad for exhibitions and works on loan from the Tretyakov collection. Shows in Paris, Madrid, and New York have been tremendously successful, and Bonn and Phoenix are among the cities which will host future exhibitions.

CURRENT EXHIBITION

Yekaterina Selezneva
In Search of Perfection

№4 2008 (21)

Flowers accompany us throughout our lives. They have long been a focus of scholarly interest: botanists describe and collect them to form herbariums, while medical researchers study the useful and salutary properties of these exceptionally diverse plants. Nearly all nations of the world have traditions, dating back over history, to greet guests and see them off on special occasions with flowers, and to use flowers for decoration. But apart from their aesthetic properties and practical use, flowers also became symbols and tokens of sentiments; their meaning often varies from one nation or period to another.

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Yekaterina Selezneva
“Diex lo volt”– God wishes it so

№1 2008 (18)

The exhibition of the graphic art of Toulouse-Lautrec opened on February 18 in the Tretyakov Gallery’s Engineering Building. The Tretyakov Gallery thanks the Library of the National Institute of Art History in France for generously lending to the Russian exhibition works from their collection. Most sincere gratitude is extended to Léonard Gianadda, who supported the event financially and made it possible to exhibit Lautrec’s caricature self-portrait from a private Swiss collection. Special thanks are also to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, and to its director Irina Antonova, who contributed to the exhibition the work “Woman at the Window”. The project would likely not have reached reality without the substantial financial support of Bank VTB. The gallery thanks the bank for guaranteeing the financing of the project

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Yekaterina Selezneva
Europe - Russia - Europe

№2 2007 (15)

The idea behind “Europe, Russia, Europe” was a simple one: bringing together important works from leading museums from 28 countries creates an impressive exhibition. Careful study of these works gives rise to a multitude of fascinating questions and discussions. The most obvious, perhaps, would be: when and how did the plastic languages of European art develop? How, and why, do the artistic processes taking place in various areas of Europe differ? In what ways do the arts overlap and influence each other? What is the relationship between cultural and historical processes? How is politics reflected in art, and does art determine politics?

INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA

Yekaterina Selezneva
Summer in Switzerland. Masterpieces from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art at Martigny. Hans Holbein in Basel

#4 2006 (13)

By lending 50 masterpieces of Western European art to the Fondation Pierre Gianadda the world-famous Metropolitan Museum is sending out a clear message: it trusts the foundation implicitly. The memory of the mysterious story (with a happy ending) when the collection of French paintings from Moscow’s Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts was arrested after the closure of the exhibition remains fresh in the minds of many. At the time, some Russian journalists and museum officials said in no uncertain terms that the Swiss partner did not quite live up to the standards of the Pushkin museum.

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Yekaterina Selezneva
A Vernissage at Spaso House

#3 2006 (12)

During this 150th anniversary year, the halls of the Treyakov Gallery have presented many brilliant special exhibitions. There has also been great demand abroad for exhibitions and works on loan from the Tretyakov collection. Shows in Paris, Madrid, and New York have been tremendously successful, and Bonn and Phoenix are among the cities which will host future exhibitions.

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Yekaterina Selezneva
The Musee d’Orsay in the Tretyakov Gallery

#2 2006 (11)

The exhibition halls of the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val saw on April 24 the grand opening of the exhibition of French painting and sculpture from the unique and unrivalled Musée d’Orsay, that prides itself on its collection of art created between 1848 and 1914. The project is sponsored by Vneshtorgbank. The exhibition was held within the international programme dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the Tretyakov Gallery. “The French Project” is the second part of the gallery’s cooperation programme with the Musée d’Orsay; its first stage in Paris last year hosted a comprehensive and distinctive exhibition of Russian art of the second half of the 19th century.

POINT OF VIEW

Yekaterina Selezneva
The Museum and the Artist: Rights and Copyright

№4 2005 (09)

From May 25 to May 27 2005 the Tretyakov Gallery held a conference on expertise evaluation and copyright in the visual arts, connected to the Marc Chagall exhibition in the Engineering wing. The first day of the conference was dedicated to copyright: the Russian Authors’ Society (RAO), ADAGP (the French agency for the rights of authors in the visual arts), and the Marc Chagall Committee from Paris that represents the artist’s successors took part in the discussion regarding questions of copyright observation for artists and their legal heirs.

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Ye. Selezneva
Mark Chagall ‘Bonjour, Patrie!’

№1 2005 (06)

Named after a painting created by the artist in 1953, the major Chagall retrospective exhibition “Bonjour, Patrie!” will run at the Tretyakov Gallery between 25 February and 29 May 2005.

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