Vadim Sidur: Blooming Time
The Vadim Sidur Museum and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art present the BLOOMING TIME project, the first in this year's series of temporary exhibitions that are ogranized around the metaphorical image of a blooming garden as a lost and found paradise. The exhibition will feature sculptures and graphics by Vadim Sidur from various periods of his work as well as artworks from the collection of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
The sharp contrast of themes, the intertwining conflicting motifs of the universal human catastrophe and the ultimate love of life are at the heart of the works of Vadim Sidur, whose art was largely informed by both his tragic war experience and his admiration for the most vivid manifestations of life.
The intersection of these opposites is represented in the exhibition by the dual image of a blooming garden of Eden as a place of abundance and enjoyment, as well as exile and loss. For Sidur, such a place was his parents' house in Alabino near Moscow, his refuge and creative laboratory. It was there that during the warmer months he created many of his works, as well as his poetry cycle The Happiest Autumn, but at the end of the season he inevitably returned to his Basement workshop on Chudovka Street. The materials of Vadim Sidur's sculptures on display, 'inanimate' metal and 'living' wood, emphasize the dual nature of his images.
In the exhibition, works from the collection of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art enter into a dialogue with Vadim Sidur's works, and act as a semantic resonator exposing the theme of a blooming garden in all its contradictory completeness, which helps understand how the sculptor's legacy continues to live and transform in the contemporary context.
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The Vadim Sidur Museum and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art present the BLOOMING TIME project, the first in this year's series of temporary exhibitions that are ogranized around the metaphorical image of a blooming garden as a lost and found paradise. The exhibition will feature sculptures and graphics by Vadim Sidur from various periods of his work as well as artworks from the collection of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
The sharp contrast of themes, the intertwining conflicting motifs of the universal human catastrophe and the ultimate love of life are at the heart of the works of Vadim Sidur, whose art was largely informed by both his tragic war experience and his admiration for the most vivid manifestations of life.
The intersection of these opposites is represented in the exhibition by the dual image of a blooming garden of Eden as a place of abundance and enjoyment, as well as exile and loss. For Sidur, such a place was his parents' house in Alabino near Moscow, his refuge and creative laboratory. It was there that during the warmer months he created many of his works, as well as his poetry cycle The Happiest Autumn, but at the end of the season he inevitably returned to his Basement workshop on Chudovka Street. The materials of Vadim Sidur's sculptures on display, 'inanimate' metal and 'living' wood, emphasize the dual nature of his images.
In the exhibition, works from the collection of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art enter into a dialogue with Vadim Sidur's works, and act as a semantic resonator exposing the theme of a blooming garden in all its contradictory completeness, which helps understand how the sculptor's legacy continues to live and transform in the contemporary context.
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