RUSSIA! THE DRAMA of ART in 12 EPISODES (111 minutes)
2007
Screenwriter, director and producer Nina Zaretskaya
Press Release
Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation
Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography
Art Media Center "TV Gallery"
with the support of Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Press screening of the documentary
July 19, 2007 at 17:00
Collegium Hall
Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography
7 Gnezdnikovsky Lane, Moscow
This film is based on the materials of RUSSIA!, the most comprehensive exhibition of Russian art ever shown in the United States, presented at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museums in New York and the Guggenheim-Hermitage Museum in Las Vegas in 2005 and at the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum in 2006.
RUSSIA! exhibition has been realized under the patronage of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. The opening of the exhibition coincided with the start of the 60th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. High-ranking delegations from Russian Federation and the United States visited the exhibition. This footage was included in the film, for example, the speech of the Russian President Putin at the official opening ceremony.
This innovative exhibition featured more than 250 greatest masterworks of Russian art from all major Russian art museums.
This film highlights the importance of this event in the cultural and historical context. Only the detailed and expert analysis of the works of art created in different periods allows to perceive the connection between the stages of development of the Russian culture, therefore the outstanding art curators, art historians and critics from the United States and Russia were invited to participate in this documentary. Their talks are accompanied by rich content visual footage which includes fragments from movies, newsreel footage and filmed art masterpieces.
At the press screening you will be able to make your own judgement and to put questions to the film crew.
The event will also include the charity action that will give you a chance to buy the DVD of the film. A portion of the proceeds from the DVD sale will be donated to the Lifeline Russian charity program that finances the heart surgery for severely ill children. This charity program has been in operation since 2004. The purpose of this national program for children up to 15 year old is to decrease the mortality from the grave heart and brain diseases that could be cured by high technology intervention. About 1,400 Russian children have been saved due to this program, and donations from individuals and organizations amounted to$7.5 million. But the program needs more help!
We hope to see you all at the screening.
Please RVSP by phone 238-02-69 or by email at office@tvgallery.ru
VITO ACCONCI
2007
Retrospective program
Performing myself
Curated by Nina Zaretskaya
VIII MEDIA FORUM OF THE 29th MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
PRESENTATION PROGRAM
Acconci's early performances—including Claim (1971) and Seedbed (1972)—were extremely controversial, transgressing assumed boundaries between public and private space, and between audience and performer. Positioning his own body as the simultaneous subject and object of the work, Acconci's early video tapes took advantage of the medium's self-reflexive potential in mediating his own and the viewer's attention. Consistently exploring the dynamics of intimacy, trust, and power, the focus of Acconci's projects gradually moved from his physical body (Conversions, 1971) toward the psychology of interpersonal transactions (Pryings, 1971), and later, to the cultural and political implications of the performative space he set up for the camera (The Red Tapes, 1976). Since the late '70s, Acconci has designed architectural and installation works for public spaces.
Vito Acconci Retrospective program:
Three Frame Studies, 1969, 10'58"
Two Cover Studies, 1970, 7'46"
Three Adaptation Studies, 1970, 8'05" Openings, 1970, 14'00"
Pryings, 1971, 17’10"
Conversions, 1971, 65'30"
Theme Song, 1973, 33'17"
Born 1940 Bronx, New York, USA. The artist lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Vito Acconci is a key late twentieth-century pioneer of performance, video, installation and the exploration of architectural space. Initially a poet, Acconci began making Conceptual art in the late 1960s.
A poet of the New York school in the early- and mid- 1960s, Vito Acconci moved toward performance, sound, and video work by the end of the decade.
Acconci changed direction in order to "define [his] body in space, find a ground for [him]self, an alternate ground for the page ground [he] had as a poet."
The site has been created with the assistance of the "Open
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