From 20 June to 6 October 2024 the Museum of Russian Impressionism will present the exhibition ‘Beautiful Life Magazine’, featuring ‘Capital and Manor’, the first Russian glossy magazine, issued from 1913 to 1917 and addressed at the aristocracy and high society. This exposition will include works published or described on the pages of the magazine, allowing us to view Russian art through the prism of tastes and preferences of the early 20th-century élite. Visitors will see paintings and graphics by Isaak Brodsky, Nicolai Fechin, Alexander Makovsky, Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, and other artists. To coincide with the exhibition there is also a special project on the museum’s 3rd floor: here it is the turn of 21st-century artists ready to define their present-day concept of la dolce vita.
Beauty Salon | ZORIKTO
2019, 200x148 cm
Аcrylic, potal, paper, textile, buttons on canvas
The special project on the museum’s 3rd floor invites us to reflect on what form the idea of a ‘beautiful life’ may take in contemporary art. Fashionable images and high society rituals, the chic and brilliance of everyday occurrence, irony and a nod at glamour and gloss are reflected in the works of Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexander Vinogradov, Olga Tobreluts and Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe, Kirill Kto and Misha Nikatin, ZORIKTO. Visitors can see works from the Khankhalaev Gallery, the Ruarts Foundation, the Anna Nova Gallery, the Triumph Gallery, and important private collections. There will also be a chance for viewers to discuss different interpretations of the ‘beautiful’ at mediations.