The best reviews, articles and news on Russian art, related exhibitions and interesting cultural events in the UK.
Monday, 14 May 2012
June Preview: Ukrainian Museum, NY
JUNE PREVIEW AT THE UKRAINIAN MUSEUM, NEW YORK CITY
Concert: Friday, June 1, 7 p.m.
Bandura Downtown closes its 2011-2012 season with a performance by artistic director Julian Kytasty showcasing his latest solo work and introducing a series of surprise guests. Join us in celebrating six full seasons of Bandura Downtown performances at The Ukrainian Museum!
Lecture: Sunday, June 3, 2 p.m.
"The Carpet Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Preservation and Display" will be the topic of Dr. Florica Zaharia's lecture, presented in conjunction with the Museum's exhibition Ukrainian Kilims: Journey of a Heritage. Dr. Zaharia is the Conservator in Charge of the Met's Department of Textile Conservation.
Annual Meeting: Sunday, June 24, 2 p.m.
All members are urged to attend the Museum's annual meeting. Meeting notices will be mailed out shortly, but please mark your calendars and plan to join us for this important annual event.
Ukrainian Kilims: Journey of a Heritage
Through October 21
More than 35 kilims from the Museum's permanent collection, some dating back to the 18th century, are on view in this exhibition. Many of the tapestry-like rugs were spirited out of Ukraine and transported across numerous borders by Ukrainian refugees fleeing war and the destructive Soviet occupation of Ukraine. Cherished and preserved for years after their arduous journey, the kilims were eventually entrusted to the Museum's care.
Featured in the January 27 issue of The New York Times ("Antiques on Camera and Behind Every Door / Ukrainian Weavings," page C31).
COMING SOON
A Singular Vision: Ilona Sochynsky, Retrospective of Painting
May 13 through October 7
The Ukrainian Museum: 35 Years in Print
Through October 21
Since 1976, the Museum has been mounting exhibitions that educate and enthrall visitors while introducing them to the broad spectrum of Ukrainian art and culture. Drop by this exhibit to marvel at the range of subjects covered over the past 35 years, as seen through the exhibition catalogues, posters, and other documents that accompanied the Museum's exhibitions.
Borys Kosarev: Modernist Kharkiv, 1915-1931
LAST CHANCE! Closes May 2
Virtually unknown even in his native land, the avant-garde artist Borys Kosarev (1897-1994), a survivor of Stalin's purges in 1930s Ukraine, was a painter, designer, photographer, and illustrator who worked with some of the pre-eminent creative personalities of his time. This first-ever exhibition of 82 of his works brings to light Kosarev's prodigious talent and his deep attachment to Kharkiv, the city of his birth, death, and long life. The contents of the exhibition coincide with Kharkiv's time as the capital of Ukraine (1919-1934), the rise of Constructivism, and the period of Ukrainianization, which brought with it a brief renaissance of art and culture before being brutally quashed through a series of purges and long-term repression.
Profiled on NYC-ARTS, PBS Channels 13 and 21 in New York, February 23-26.
The Ukrainian Museum, 222 East 6th Street, New York, NY 10003
T: 212.228.0110 · F: 212.228.1947
info@ukrainianmuseum.org · www.ukrainianmuseum.org
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Friday, 11 May 2012
Mother Russia: Classical Music Series at Tricycle, London
The Tricycle Theatre, London
Classical Music Series 2012
Artistic Director: Tamsin Waley-Cohen
with the Honeymead Ensemble
‘Warm, focused, joyous… a marvellous chamber series’ The Sunday Times
Sunday 20 May, 7pm
Mother Russia
Leading the Classical Music Series into the summer months The Honeymead Ensemble perform two of the great Russian string quartets. Arensky’s ‘Cello’ Quartet No. 2 in A minor was written in memory of Tchaikovsky and is deeply rooted in Russian folk, this gem of Russian Romanticism has a uniquely rich and dark sound. Tchaikovsky’s String Quartet No. 3 in E-Flat minor was written in memory of his great friend, the violinist Ferdinand Laub. Symphonic in scope, and filled with moments of intense grief and longing, this work is considered the great Russian Romantic quartet.
http://www.tricycle.co.uk/current-programme-pages/theatre/theatre-programme-main/classical-music-series-2012/
Classical Music Series 2012
Artistic Director: Tamsin Waley-Cohen
with the Honeymead Ensemble
‘Warm, focused, joyous… a marvellous chamber series’ The Sunday Times
Sunday 20 May, 7pm
Mother Russia
Leading the Classical Music Series into the summer months The Honeymead Ensemble perform two of the great Russian string quartets. Arensky’s ‘Cello’ Quartet No. 2 in A minor was written in memory of Tchaikovsky and is deeply rooted in Russian folk, this gem of Russian Romanticism has a uniquely rich and dark sound. Tchaikovsky’s String Quartet No. 3 in E-Flat minor was written in memory of his great friend, the violinist Ferdinand Laub. Symphonic in scope, and filled with moments of intense grief and longing, this work is considered the great Russian Romantic quartet.
http://www.tricycle.co.uk/current-programme-pages/theatre/theatre-programme-main/classical-music-series-2012/
LSO: Summer Stravinsky Festival with Valery Gergiev
One of the undeniable highlights of the LSO’s 2011/12 season is right around the corner – a festival of five concerts, spread across three venues (the Barbican, LSO St Luke’s and Trafalgar Square), celebrating the many faces of composer Igor Stravinsky and led by one of the most powerful champions of Russian music today, LSO Principal Conductor Valery Gergiev. With repertoire ranging from the iconic Firebird and Rite of Spring to the hidden curiosities of Stravinsky's jazz miniatures, appearances from guests including Greek virtuoso violinist Leonidas Kavakos and actor Simon Callow, and the chance to choose your setting, this all-encompassing series promises something for everyoneStravinsky is frequently cast against contemporaries Shostakovich and Prokofiev as an example of a somehow less inherently Russian creator: born in St Petersburg, his 60-year career saw him settle in Switzerland, France and finally the US, where he lived until his death in 1971. His music is, on the surface, similarly cosmopolitan. The early ballets for Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes – The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring – and the Russian fairytale-based Renard plus The Soldier’s Tale form a loose ‘Russian’ period; Oedipus Rex and the Violin Concerto are part of his ‘neo-classical’ period which saw a return to the form, order and balance of the late 18th century, and reached an apex whilst the composer was in Paris. Then there is a body of serial works which developed post-1945, once Stravinsky had become a US citizen. But Gergiev insists that Stravinsky’s ‘Russianness’ did not simply cease to be when he left for the West, aged 28...
> Watch Valery Gergiev discuss Stravinsky
http://vimeo.com/21922333
> LSO mini documentary about The Rite of Spring
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dIq_sF1agI
Choral splendour & solo violin frolics
Fri 11 May 7.30pm Barbican
Mass | Violin Concerto in D | The Firebird – complete ballet
with Leonidas Kavakos violin & London Symphony Chorus
Free concert: Stravinsky live in Trafalgar Square
Sat 12 May 6.30pm Trafalgar Square
Fireworks | The Firebird – suite | The Rite of Spring
with Paul Rissmann presenter
Folk tales from Russia
Sun 13 May 7.30pm Barbican
Renard | The Soldier's Tale
with Simon Callow narrator & LSO Chamber Ensemble
PLUS 'Backstage Pass': free pre-concert talk for young people and their families:
The music that rocked the 20th century & neo-classical tragedy
Tue 15 May 7.30pm Barbican
The Rite of Spring | Oedipus Rex
http://www.lso.co.uk/page/3688/Summer-Stravinsky-Festival-with-Valery-Gergiev
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Thursday, 10 May 2012
FILM: Sokurov’s award-winning Faust released 11 May
Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival 2011, Faust completes Sokurov’s loose tetralogy on the lives of historical figures, which began with studies of Adolf Hitler (Moloch, 1999), Vladimir Lenin (Taurus, 2000) and Emperor Hirohito (The Sun, 2005). His new film delves deeper into the nature of power with a unique take on Goethe’s classic tale.
From one of Russia’s greatest filmmakers comes a unique interpretation of Goethe’s classic tale of a man who sells his soul to the Devil. A coda to the director’s fictional profiles of three tyrants (Hitler in Moloch, Stalin in Taurus and Hirohito in The Sun), Sokurov’s latest film explores mankind’s propensity for corruption in the face of power and sexual gratification. And as with all the director’s films, the result is a work of ravishing beauty.
Available on Curzon on Demand 11 May.
http://www.curzoncinemas.com/films/details/1193/faust-sokurov/
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
CONF: Gartenkultur in Russland (Hannover, 9-11 May 12)
CONF: Gartenkultur in Russland (Hannover, 9 - 11 May 12)
Hannover, 09. - 11.05.2012
Internationales Symposium "Gartenkultur in Russland"
Veranstalter: Dr. Anna Ananieva (Universität Tübingen / JGU Mainz),
Prof. Dr. rer. hort. habil. Gert Gröning (CGL Leibniz Universität
Hannover / Universität der Künste Berlin) und Dr. Alexandra Veselova
(Institut für Russische Literatur der Russischen Akademie für
Wissenschaften St. Petersburg) für das Zentrum für Gartenkunst und
Landschaftsarchitektur (CGL), Leibniz Universität Hannover.
Das Symposium widmet sich der Gartenkultur in Russland und bietet
erstmals ein fächerübergreifendes Forum für deutsch-russischen
wissenschaftlichen Austausch zu dieser Thematik. Die Veranstaltung will
aktuelle Forschungen einzelner Disziplinen wie Architektur- und
Kunstgeschichte, Garten-, Literatur-, Theater-, Musikwissenschaften
sowie Ethnografie bündeln und die bisherige sowie zukünftige Reichweite
des interdisziplinären Zugriffs auf die Gartenkultur in Russland
ausloten.
Inhaltlich fokussiert die Veranstaltung auf die Themen „Der Garten und
seine Lebenswelten“, „Der Garten und andere Künste“ und „Der Garten und
seine Personen“. Im ersten Schwerpunkt geht es um repräsentative
höfische Gartenkultur, Gärten der russischen Landgüter und die Datscha
als Phänomen im russischen Alltag sowie um urbane Freizeitanlagen aus
der sowjetischen Zeit. Der zweite Schwerpunkt setzt sich mit den
Landgütern als Orten der Sehnsucht und der Flucht auseinander. Dabei
wird nicht nur nach der Konstituierung eines Mythos in der Literatur
gefragt, sondern auch die Ikonografie der Gärten in der Buchkunst, der
bildenden Kunst und der Architektur der Moderne reflektiert. Hinzu
kommt die Untersuchung der Rolle des Theaters auf den adligen
Landgütern. Schließlich werden hier auch die Bedeutung der Musik in den
Parkanlagen und Gärten der Landsitze sowie die künstlerische Wiedergabe
der Gärten auf Porzellan angesprochen. Im dritten Schwerpunkt stehen
die Gutsbesitzer, Schriftsteller, Maler, Musiker, Gartenarchitekten und
Politiker als Akteure der Gartenkultur im Mittelpunkt. Die spezifischen
Themen in diesem Kontext haben Gärten und russische Folklore, die neue
Gartenästhetik in der russischen Provinz, die Popularisierung der
Gartenkultur durch Poetisieren und Bauen sowie die Gärten der Literaten
zum Gegenstand.
Das Symposium findet im Rahmen der Russland-Wochen an deutschen
Hochschulen 2012 anlässlich des Deutsch-Russischen Jahres der Bildung,
Wissenschaft und Innovation 2011/2012 statt und wird von dem
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) und von der Stiftung
Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (HRK) gefördert.
Arbeitssprachen des Symposiums sind Deutsch und Russisch mit
Synchronübersetzung.
Programm
Mittwoch, 09.05.2012
Ort: Leibnizhaus, Holzmarkt 4-6, 30159 Hannover, Leibnizsaal
9.00-9.15
Begrüßung der Tagungsteilnehmer: Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
(Vorstandsvorsitzender des CGL)
Grußwort des Präsidenten der Leibniz Universität Hannover, Erich Barke
9.15-9.45
Einführung in die Tagung
Gert Gröning (CGL / Universität der Künste Berlin)
Alexandra Veselova (Institut für russische Literatur der Russischen
Akademie der Wissenschaften, St. Petersburg)
Anna Ananieva (Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte, Tübingen /
Institut für Kunstgeschichte, JGU Mainz)
1. Garten und seine Lebenswelten
Moderation: Anna Ananieva
10.30-11.15
Valeria Kolosova (St. Peterburg, Institut für Linguistik der Russischen
Akademie der Wissenschaften)
Darstellungen der Gärten und Symbolik der Gartenblumen in russischen
Volksliedern vor dem Hintergrund der slavischen Folklore
11.15-11.45
Marcus Köhler (Hochschule Neubrandenburg)
Der Garten als ‚Geburtsort’ des russischen Nationalstils
Moderation: Joachim Schnitter
11.45-12.30
Ekaterina Dmitrieva (Moskau, Institut für Weltliteratur der Russischen
Akademie der Wissenschaften)
Das russische Landgut als Mythentopos und Ursprung für Mythen
12.30-13.15
Sigrid Thielking (CGL / Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Gartenkultur, Muße und Hospitalität: Vom russischen Landhaussommer als
literarischer Lebensform
Moderation: Alexandra Veselova
15.00-15.45
Andrej Rejman (St. Peterburg, Staatliche Denkmalschutzbehörde)
Die Gärten des Anichkov Palais im 18. bis 19. Jahrhundert: Vom Garten
des kaiserlichen Landhauses von Elizaveta Petrovna bis hin zum Palast
der Jungen Künste
15.45-16.30
Katharina Kucher (Universität Tübingen)
Der Prototyp des sozialistischen Gartens: Der Moskauer Gorki-Park
1928-1941
Moderation: Anna Ananieva
17.00-17.45
Boris Sokolov (Moskau, Russische Staatliche Geisteswissenschaftliche
Universität)
Gärten des „Silbernen Zeitalters“: Artifizielles Leben und
künstlerisches Umfeld
19:30 – 20:30
Musikalisches Rahmenprogramm
„Von Wien nach St. Petersburg. Violinsonaten von Haydn, Mozart und Titz“
Ulla Bundies – Violine
Assen Boyadjiev – Hammerklavier
Moderation: Klaus Harer (Deutsches Kulturforum Östliches Europa Potsdam)
Ort: Kreuzkirche (Kreuzkirchhof 1, 30159 Hannover)
Eintritt: 10 Euro, erm. 5 Euro
Donnerstag, 10.05.2012
Ort: Senatssitzungssaal, Hauptgebäude der Leibniz Universität Hannover,
Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover, Raum F 335
2. Garten und andere Künste
Moderation: Marcus Köhler
09.30-10.15
Alexandra Ippolitova (Moskau, Staatliches Zentrum der russischen
Folklore)
Landschaftsdarstellungen in Kräuterbüchern (Herbarien) am Ende des 18.
Jahrhunderts
10.15-11.00
Gert Gröning (CGL / UdK Berlin)
Kireevskij im Himmel. Schablykino, eine bemerkenswerte Parkanlage aus
dem frühen 19. Jahrhundert im Gouvernement Orel
Moderation: Sigrid Thielking
11.30-12.15
Klara Šarafadina (St. Petersburg, Staatliche Universität für
Technologie und Design)
Gartenbauprojekte und imaginäre Gärten der Romanfiguren in der
russischen klassischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts
12.15-13.00
Joachim Schnitter (CGL / Hamburg)
„letters from terra“ Gärten als Kristallisationspunkte von Zeit und
Verlust bei Anton Tschechov und Vladimir Nabokov
Moderation: Susanne Fontaine
15.00-15.45
Christoph Flamm (UdK Berlin)
Musik in den Gärten der Petersburger Sommerresidenzen im 18. Jahrhundert
15.45-16.30
Olga Kupcova (Moskau, Staatliche Lomonosov Universität / Russische
Staatliche Gerasimov Universität)
Theater-Spiele in Garten- und Parklandschaften der russischen Landsitze
um 1800 - Eine Typologie
17.00-17.45
Irina Pašinskaja (GMZ Peterhof)
Festliche Illuminationen im Unteren Garten von Peterhof in der ersten
Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts
Freitag, 11.05.2012
Ort: Senatssitzungssaal, Hauptgebäude der Leibniz Universität Hannover,
Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover, Raum F 335
3. Der Garten und seine Personen: Wahrnehmung, Beschreibung, Deutung
Moderation: Anna Ananieva
09.30-10.15
Alexandra Veselova (St. Petersburg, Institut für russische Literatur
der Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften)
Zur Herausbildung von gartenkünstlerischer Begrifflichkeit in Russland
um 1800
10.15-11.00
Margrethe Floryan (Kopenhagen, Thorvaldsens Museum)
Hortikulturelle Lehrstücke: Zur Hirschfeld-Rezeption in Russland
Moderation: Gert Gröning
11.30-12.15
Maria Našokina (Moskau, Forschungsinstitut für Theorie und Praxis der
Architektur und des Städtebaus)
Gartenprojekte von Georg Kuphaldt im Kontext der russischen
Landsitzarchitektur des „Silbernen Zeitalters“
12.15-13.00
Stanislav Savickij (Institut der freien Künste, Staatliche Universität
St. Petersburg)
Der Garten der Reflexion: Lidija Ginzburg und der Park Petrodvorec
13.00-14.30
Andreas Schönle (London, Queen Mary University)
Die Modernität der Gärten: Das politische Ringen und die Identität der
Elite
Die Teilnahme an dem Symposium ist kostenfrei. Wegen der
eingeschränkten Raumverhältnisse wird es um eine Anmeldung bei der
Geschäftsstelle des CGL gebeten:
Dr. Sabine Albersmeier
Zentrum für Gartenkunst und Landschaftsarchitektur (CGL)
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Herrenhäuser Straße 8
30 419 Hannover
Fon +49 (0) 511/762-5789
Fax +49 (0) 511/762-5693
Mail cgl@uni-hannover.de
Weitere Informationen zum Symposium, das zweisprachige,
deutsch-russische Programm sowie das Konzertprogramm befinden sich hier:
http://www.cgl.uni-hannover.de/de/tagungen/gartenkultur/index.php
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EXH: Mysteries of Chukotka at MacDougalls
The Mysteries of Chukotka
An exhibition of photographs by Ida Ruchina
In benefit of the Red Cross Chukotka Health Centre
Viewing Days: 8-13 May, Tuesday-Friday 10:00-17:00
Weekend by appointment only
Evening Reception: Thursday 10 May, 19:00-21:00
This virtually untouched corner of the earth would still be recognised by the first Russian settlers, who came to Chukotka half a milennium ago. In summer, the vast space of the unforgiving tundra is filled with a dazzling variety of mosses, lichens and arctic plants. In winter, it has hundreds of shades of snow.
Ida Ruchina's spectacular photographs allow a rare glimpse at this little-explored region of outstanding natural beauty, its hardy inhabitants and their unique culture and traditions. Love and a true interest in people nurture her art. The photographs will be on sale in benefit of the Red Cross Chukotka Health Centre.
Auction Dates
Important Russian Art: Sun 27 May, 17:00
Russian Art, Icons and Works of Art: Wed 30 May, 10:30 & 14:00
Dimitri Bouchene Collection: Wed 30 May, 16:00
Viewing 25-29 May
MacDougall Arts Ltd
30A Charles II St, London, SW1Y 4AE
Tel +44-20-7389-8160
http://www.macdougallauction.com/soonmay12.asp
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FILM "TSAR": Kinoklub in Edinburgh
Kinoklub in Edinburgh
TSAR / ЦАРЬ
Tuesday 22 May, 6pm
Filmhouse cinema, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh
KinoKlub is expanding! Academia Rossica have joined forces with Edinburgh University's Princess Dashkova Centre and the Filmhouse cinema to bring regular screenings of Russian films to Edinburgh.
KinoKlub's first Scottish screening will be multi-award winning director Pavel Lungin's historical drama TSAR, telling the violent but fascinating story of the moral conflict between Ivan the Terrible and the Metropolitan Filipp.Russia in the 1560s is in the grip of chaos. Ivan the Terrible believes he’s on a holy mission and that his orders come straight from God. He demands absolute power over his people and will destroy anyone who opposes him. In an attempt to keep a close leash on things, Ivan appoints old friend and scholar, Filipp, to be the head of the Orthodox Church. Filipp’s honesty places him at odds with Ivan, as he dares to question his authority, going so far as to ask the Tsar to renounce his policies of terror: public executions, torture, and land confiscation.
At the centre of Tsar is the clash between two powerful men, an ideal acting vehicle for two of Russia’s seminal actors, Pyotr Mamonov as Tsar Ivan and Oleg Yankovsky as Filipp. This was Yankovsky’s 71st and final film role; he died in May 2009.
Tsar does not purport to be a historical overview of Ivan’s reign, but focuses instead on internal struggles closer to the throne – issues of duty, friendship, loyalty, power, paranoia, fanaticism, and madness.
LATE ADDITION The screening will be introduced by Dr Andrei Rogatchevski, Russian Programme Director at the University of Glasgow, who will also lead a short discussion after the screening on issues raised by the film.
http://www.filmhousecinema.com/showing/tsar/
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