White Cube. August. Notes for the iconology of the 芦world picture禄
Curators: Anna Arutyunyan, Andrey Egorov
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA) presents 芦White Cube. August禄, an exhibition that continues the 芦Collection. Vantage Point禄 program of compact, laboratory-mode displays of the museum鈥檚 holdings. The nominalistically simple and yet enigmatic title of the project functions as a kind of a cipher. On the one hand, it directly indicates the event鈥檚 temporal and spatial coordinates, and on the other, it makes reference to the titles of two specific artworks, which tentatively signify the beginning and the end of the visitor鈥檚 journey, the entrance and exit points.
A recurring motif of the exhibition is the wandering within a 芦world picture禄. In the selected works, created by artists of different generations, this idea acquires a manifold expression: from the archaic symbols of the labyrinth and the playing board, topographic plans, spatial schemes and mental maps, to the representation of optical devices that mediate our gaze, panoramic landscapes, visionary compositions and digital environments. Demonstrating the 芦assembly models禄 of a coherent image of reality deriving from various creative standpoints and worldviews, these individual artistic worlds, non-contradictory-in-themselves aspire to the all-encompassing and the universal. Still, they remain ephemeral and elusive signs, orienting marks on the way to those inexpressible and inappropriable meanings, which lie beyond the visible and the evident.
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Curators: Anna Arutyunyan, Andrey Egorov
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA) presents 芦White Cube. August禄, an exhibition that continues the 芦Collection. Vantage Point禄 program of compact, laboratory-mode displays of the museum鈥檚 holdings. The nominalistically simple and yet enigmatic title of the project functions as a kind of a cipher. On the one hand, it directly indicates the event鈥檚 temporal and spatial coordinates, and on the other, it makes reference to the titles of two specific artworks, which tentatively signify the beginning and the end of the visitor鈥檚 journey, the entrance and exit points.
A recurring motif of the exhibition is the wandering within a 芦world picture禄. In the selected works, created by artists of different generations, this idea acquires a manifold expression: from the archaic symbols of the labyrinth and the playing board, topographic plans, spatial schemes and mental maps, to the representation of optical devices that mediate our gaze, panoramic landscapes, visionary compositions and digital environments. Demonstrating the 芦assembly models禄 of a coherent image of reality deriving from various creative standpoints and worldviews, these individual artistic worlds, non-contradictory-in-themselves aspire to the all-encompassing and the universal. Still, they remain ephemeral and elusive signs, orienting marks on the way to those inexpressible and inappropriable meanings, which lie beyond the visible and the evident.
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