Alexander Anufriev “Fragments”.

Exhibition of a French photographer Philippe Chancel "Parisian rebels'82" in Moscow Multimedia Art Museum International Photo Biennale opened "Fashion and style in photography". ARTANDHOUSES has selected those exhibitions within the framework of the Biennale that cannot be missed.

"Paris Rebels' 82"
© Philippe Chancel / Melanie Rio Gallery

Igor Mukhin

"Alternative Culture of the 1980s"

Multimedia Art Museum

Russian classics street style-photography was lucky to live in a turbulent time of change and photograph all those who today, along with him, are also called classics in a variety of fields - art, music, cinema. Therefore, the central place in this unique retrospective will be occupied by the then still young and reckless heroes of the Russian underground and bohemians who were captured by Mukhin’s lens - from Viktor Tsoi to Yuri Shevchuk.

Oleg Garkusha, "AuktYon"
Leningrad
1986

"Freeze. Fashion photography by Denis Peel"

Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography

The French-American photographer was no less lucky than Mukhin Denis Pil: His career as a fashion photographer flourished in the 1980s, the era of supermodels and a new generation of Hollywood divas. Working for Vogue in New York gave him first-night access to shooting models like Naomi Campbell, Nadja Auermann and Cindy Crawford, as well as young actresses. Among the latter were, for example, Daryl Hannah, Nastassja Kinski, Uma Thurman and dozens of others. Many nostalgic shots of that time will be included in the photographer’s first Russian exhibition.

Tatiana Patitz and Laetitia Firmin-Dido
1986
Cannes, Paris A New Mood. Vogue USA

Michelle Sima

“Geniuses in the workshops. Behind the scenes of the Parisian art scene"

Multimedia Art Museum

Michelle Sima, a Polish Jew, came to study in Paris at age seventeen in 1929. He entered the famous Académie de la Grande Chaumière, where Rodin taught, and entered the circle of artists of the “Parisian school”. He worked in sculpture and ceramics, but became famous for his photographs of artists from all over the world who occupied the French capital at that time. Who has not been in his lens - Brancusi, Cocteau, Picabia, Miro, Giacometti and dozens of others. But his most famous photographs remain those of Pablo Picasso, who will also come to Moscow.

Henri Matisse
Courtesy: Dr. Kuno Fischer, Galerie Fischer, Switzerland
Copyright: © Estate Michel Sima

Philip Halsman

"Bounce"

Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center

If you are annoyed by photos of friends “hanging in the air” on social networks, then you should not go to the exhibition at the Jewish Museum - it can be considered the progenitor of this genre of photography, which has reached its apogee in the digital age. However, for the sake of Halsman’s jumps, irritation should be suppressed: firstly, legends of surrealism are not brought to Moscow every year, and secondly, only his photographs show perhaps the most authentic story of the 1950s, where the main roles are played by, for example, Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe and Harold Lloyd.

Harold Lloyd
1953
© Philippe Halsman/Magnum Photos

Exhibition by Sergei Bratkov

Multimedia Art Museum

Sergey Bratkov- a living classic of modern Russian photography, curator and teacher at the Rodchenko School. He is one of the few of our photographers who are widely known in the West: his exhibitions were held in France, Italy, Belgium, the USA and other countries. For several years now, he has not just been filming, but has been working at the intersection of art and photography, putting together installations from his shots, and sometimes simply creating works of art that are not related to the camera. His new project is also made at the intersection of genres - Bratkov turned his photographs into conceptual prints for fabrics, from which he will create “soft” sculptures and installations.

"Pirelli Calendar 2017"

Multimedia Art Museum

Since 1964, with an eight-year break due to the oil crisis at the turn of the 1970s-80s, the Pirelli company has been releasing its famous collectible calendar with half-naked beauties, and then rolling out exhibitions of photographs from it around the world. Over the past few years, these exhibitions have made their way to the Moscow Multimedia Art Museum, where they become real hits with the audience. This season, the calendar was photographed for the fourth time by a famous fashion photographer. Peter Lindbergh, and Hollywood stars posed for him, including Jessica Chastain, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman and others.

Uma Thurman
NY
2017

"The artist's model in the camera lens"

Tretyakov Gallery

A simple but incredibly effective technique is used at the exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery: the curators will place photographs of artists’ models and paintings in which they are depicted side by side. Thus, the heroine of Ivan Kramskoy’s “Moonlight Night” Elena Tretyakova, the second wife of Sergei Tretyakov, appears next to the canvas in her Paris photograph of 1875 in a ball gown with a deep neckline, and the elegant wife of Konstantin Korovin Anna Yakovlevna Fidler, looking from a photograph of the late 1890s , will be located next door to my husband’s paper lanterns business.

The biennale “Fashion and Style in Photography – 2017” opened in the capital. Six exhibitions will be held at Manege. The exhibition of one of them - “Stars of Italian Cinema: Unknown Archives” - includes photographs from the collection of one of the largest photographic archives of Italian cinema (1950-1970s), which have never been exhibited before. They depict legendary film figures: Federico Fellini, Giulietta Masina, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Alberto Sordi and many others.

The project of ballet dancer Dmitry Starshinov opens up a different, “non-ceremonial” Bolshoi Theater for the audience. In the photographs of his exhibition “Big. New Time” captures intense rehearsals, the work process, moments of relaxation and the highest concentration of artists before going on stage.

Courtney Roy played the role of the main and only heroine of the “Fictional California” project. For two months, she drove a car full of camera equipment, wigs and second-hand dresses through cities, villages and abandoned places in search of nondescript but colorful landscapes. Roy wanted to find something mysterious, disturbing and fascinating in the everyday and banal.

The organizers of another project, the Circulation(s) festival, strive to show the diversity of photographic practices that exist in Europe and are aimed at finding new talents.

Guests of the Manege can also get acquainted with the “Paparazzi” project of the art group Masaccio & Drovilal. French artists Elisa Mazac and Robert Drovilal use popular images of modern culture, taken out of their usual context, as material for creating their photo collages and installations. Using various techniques, deliberately bright colors and sharp irony, they transform images, calling into question the main principles of artistic photography.

In 2017, the Manege Central Exhibition Hall turns 200 years old. The Manege project was prepared especially for this date. 200 years at the center of events" is a story about the history of the building, designed by Augustin Betancourt and decorated by Osip Bove, as well as the overall role it played in the life of Moscow.

As part of the biennale “Fashion and Style in Photography”, more than 40 exhibitions of foreign and Russian photographers will be presented at the central venues of the city. Exhibits can also be seen in the Multimedia Art Museum, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, as well as in the Tretyakov Gallery.

The Moscow Government, the Moscow Department of Culture, the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow and the Manege Museum and Exhibition Association present the following exhibitions: Courtney Roy "Fictional California" ( with the support of MasterCard), Festival "Circulation(s)"(curators: Marion Islen, Anna Zaitseva, project provided by the Circulation(s) Festival, with the support of the French Embassy in Russia and the French Institute, technical partner: Panasonic, with the support of Arte Actions Culturelles), (curator: François Hebel, with the support of the French Embassy in Russia, the French Institute in Russia and Raffaello), (curator: Anna Zaitseva, with the support of Raffaello, Romeadvisor.com and the Red Tulip charitable association), Alexey Orlov “Russian Garden”(curator: Nina Levitina), Tatiana Ostrovskaya “Search”(To speaker: Nina Levitina),Dmitry Starshinov “Big. New time"(curator: Anna Zaitseva), , Alexander Anufriev “Fragments”(curator: Anna Zaitseva, project provided by the A. Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia), Igor Samolet “Breakfast for Artem”(curator: Anna Zaitseva, project provided by the A. Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia, with the support of Ahmad Tea in Russia), Sveta Isaeva “Black Box”(project provided by the A. Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia), Vik Laschenov “On the floor above they sing songs while someone swims with dolphins”(project provided by the A. Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia).

Courtney Roy "Fictional California"

Courtney Roy was born in Canada, studied at the oldest and most respected Emily Carr University of Art and Design in the Faculty of Fine Arts, dreamed of becoming an artist, but after taking a photography course she discovered that sometimes it’s easier to photograph what you want to draw. At the beginning of her photographic career, finding models to shoot caused certain difficulties, Courtney Roy easily got out of this situation by starting to take self-portraits. She now lives in Paris and has achieved great success in the field of fashion and art photography. She no longer has any difficulty choosing models, but to this day she has remained faithful to the genre of self-portraiture, creating incredible series on the verge of fiction and reality, inspired by the works of Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Bacon, Jeff Wall and Stephen Shore.

Courtney Roy loves to travel. One day, in search of unusual stories, she found herself in California, the symbol of which, of course, is Hollywood - an empire of dreams and illusions, which is also often called the city of tinsel and deceit.

Courtney Roy. enter as fiction N° 1. © Kourtney Roy. Provided by the MAMM press service

There the idea of making a series “Fictional California” arose. Of course, she herself played the role of the main and only heroine of the project. For two months, Courtney Roy drove a car full of photography equipment, wigs and second-hand dresses through cities, villages and all sorts of abandoned places in search of homely and at the same time colorful landscapes. The essence of the project was to discover something mysterious, disturbing and fascinating in the everyday and banal.

“I tried not only to offer a different vision of reality, but also to become part of it, to be transported to a parallel world where ambiguity and strangeness coexist with everyday life. I used the body's ability to improvise and play to create unexpected, unsettling effects in scenes that otherwise seemed completely banal. This photographic method relies heavily on the vicissitudes of chance, the “surprises” that arise in the process of searching for places and situations. The works created in this way look like a series of strange episodes on the edge of reality,” recalls Courtney Roy.

Courtney Roy. Enter as Fiction N°17. © Courtney Roy. Provided by the MAMM press service

All you had to do was find places that had the secret potential that, with the wave of a magic wand (Courtney Roy's camera), they could turn into a film set. For her part, the photographer is always ready to meet them, armed with a whole suitcase filled with strange-looking objects, like a baseball bat, an eagle costume or a rubber chicken.

Having discovered such amazing places, which usually escape the attention of ordinary people and do not arouse their interest due to their everyday life and banality, the photographer turned them into special worlds in which extraordinary events unfolded and extraordinary heroines acted, performed by the amazing Courtney Roy.

Courtney Roy. Enter as Fiction N°5. © Courtney Roy. Provided by the MAMM press service

Festival "Circulation(s)"

The organizers of the Circulation(s) festival - one of the most original projects in the field of contemporary photography - strive to show the diversity of photographic practices that exist in Europe and are aimed at discovering new talents. Circulation(s) is a project of the non-profit organization “Fetar”, specially created in 2005 to support young photographers.

The first Circulation(s) festival, organized in Paris in 2011, brought together 225 young artists, whose work was introduced to more than 250,000 spectators. Both a springboard for young photographers and a living creative laboratory, the festival today occupies a special place in the French and world photographic scene, attracting the attention of an increasingly wider audience. Many of its participants then become laureates of prestigious world photographic awards. Highly praised by experts and professionals, Circulation(s) is now a key source of information about aspiring photographers.

Photo: EPECTASE. Consciousness (May 22, 2013, Rue du Blamont, Meigny d'Argens, France). From the “Philosopher” series. Provided by the MAMM press service

Since 2014, the festival has been held in the famous cultural center "CENTQUATRE-Paris", which annually receives more than 500,000 visitors. In addition to the exhibition in Paris, the Circulation(s) festival annually organizes a number of international shows in collaboration with its foreign partners - the Belfast Photo Festival (Ireland), the International Biennale of Photography and Visual Arts (BIP) in Liege (Belgium), the International Photography Festival "Encontros da" Imagem" in Braga (Portugal), the Format festival (UK), the European Photography Festival in Reggio Emilia (Italy), the Lodz Photo Festival (Poland). This year, the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, joined the festival partners.

Photo: Eric Pillot. In natural conditions,
Giraffe and light, 2012. Courtesy of the MAMM press service

The curator of MAMM reviewed the works of festival participants over the past few years and selected the best projects of 27 artists, which are shown in an expanded version at the Moscow exhibition. Young artists reflect on the world that surrounds us and the events taking place around us. Some projects are a reflection on the history of art, others address social problems, others are devoted to analyzing the nature of the absurd and banal, natural and artificial, and trying to grasp the fine line between them.

Participants of the exhibition as part of the festival “Fashion and Style in Photography 2017”: Melissa Boucher and Marina de la Loge, Ulysses and Darko (Ulysses Payet and Isora Le Gennik), Vilma Pimenoff, Camille Sonalli, Amaral and Barthes, Amelie Chassari and Lucie Belarbi, Corentin Folin, Guillaume Martial, Patrick Villocq, Cyril Porsche, Guillaume Hama, Yoann Cimier; Eric Pillot, Olivia Lavergne, Laurent Kronenthal, EPECTASE (Corentin Folin and Jérôme von Zilwa); David Fathi, Marcus Moller Bietsch, Bernard Demange, Romain Laurent, Francois Borain, Nicolas Marchand.

Photo: Patrick Willock. The art of survival. Travel to the mountains. Camp Nyarugusu. Tanzania. Provided by the MAMM press service

Masaccio & Drovilal "Paparazzi"

As material for their photo collages and installations, French artists Elisa Mazac and Robert Drovilal, known as the art duo Masaccio & Drovilal, use popular images of modern culture, deliberately taken out of their usual context. Using various techniques, deliberately bright colors, and razor-sharp irony, artists transform images, calling into question the conventional principles of artistic photography.

By juxtaposing heterogeneous, often contradictory images, blurring the boundaries between the natural and the artificial, Masaccio & Drovilal provoke the viewer, who is doomed to balance on the brink of disgust and pleasure, faced with the incredible artistic experiment of the authors.

Jouent au golf, Paparazzis, 2012 © Mazaccio & Drowilal. Provided by the MAMM press service

In the “Paparazzi” project, Masaccio & Drovilal superimpose cut-out silhouettes of tabloid stars onto idealized natural backgrounds, “placing” them in stadiums and city streets. According to Elisa Mazak, the starting point for this series was a collection of photographs of stars found in magazines and the Internet. All the heroes of the future series were “caught” by the paparazzi at the moment when they indulged in their usual daily activities as relaxed as possible: went shopping and cafes, bought takeaway food, played sports, etc. By incorporating images of stars into a variety of landscapes, artists neutralize the sensational nature of the photographs conceived by the paparazzi. “There is a shift from the sensational photograph of the star to the anonymous crowd. We found it very interesting,” admits Robert Drovilal.

Au match, Paparazzis, 2014 © Mazaccio & Drowilal. Provided by the MAMM press service

Italian cinema stars: unknown archives

To manage the archive, which contains more than 65,000 negatives, the cultural association “Latitude” was created by film and photography lovers. She is engaged in preserving and replenishing its funds. In the near future, Latitude plans to digitize the entire archive and create an electronic database to provide researchers and cinephiles with broad access to the materials stored in it and ensure their future exhibition status.

It is a special honor for MAMM to be the first to show viewers a small part of the masterpieces that the archive has.

The photographs included in the exhibition were created in the 1950s - 1960s, a period of unprecedented heyday of Italian cinema. The authors of these photographs are mostly unknown, but thanks to them we can immerse ourselves in the amazing, mischievous, sparkling and at the same time very homely atmosphere that reigned on the sets of films that are now world classics.

In these photographs we see legendary figures of Italian cinema - Federico Fellini, Giulietta Masina, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Alberto Sordi and many others - at the beginning of their stellar careers. The photographs allow us to see another, “undressy” part of the “star’s” work - and this is their value and great charm.

Giulietta Masina, Federico Fellini and Anthony Quinn on the set of the film "The Road". 1954

The exhibition includes footage from the filming of Federico Fellini’s films “The Road” (1954) and “Nights of Cabiria” (1957), recognized masterpieces of world cinema, winners of all possible cinematic awards, in which the main role was played by the director’s wife and muse, Giulietta Masina. Everyone remembers the tragic stories of Mazina’s characters, and it is all the more interesting to see her “behind the scenes” - amazing and funny, so different from her heroines.

Photographs taken while working on the film “The Happiness of Being a Woman” (1956; director Alessandro Blasetti), where the young Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni starred, allow a completely new look at the diva Sophia Loren - tired, flirtatious, bored and just funny.

Photographs illustrating the filming of the comedies “Cops and Thieves” (1951) and “One Day in Court” (1954) - beloved by Italians, but not so well known in Russia - demonstrate in all their splendor the director-actor tandem Steno (Stefano Vanzina ) and Alberto Sordi, whose eccentric character - Nando Mericoni, nicknamed "The American", constantly confusing real life with the world of American films, was liked by the public so much that a year later he became the protagonist of the new film "An American in Rome", several photographs from the filming of which are also entered the exhibition.

Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow and the curator of the exhibition express sincere gratitude to Andrea Papaleo, Alesya Makarenko and Alla Demina for the opportunity to get acquainted with these materials and for their invaluable assistance in organizing the exhibition.

Sophia Loren on the set of the film “The Happiness of Being a Woman.” 1956
Private collection, Italy. © Associazione Culturale Latitudine \ Italy. Provided by the MAMM press service

Dmitry Starshinov “Big. New time"

Dance is one of the most photogenic art forms. Bright, talented, flexible, incredibly beautiful ballet dancers have inspired and continue to inspire the greatest photographers to create series that almost instantly become classics of world photography. Over its 20-year history, MAMM has repeatedly shown exhibitions dedicated to ballet, which have enjoyed constant success with audiences: “The Bolshoi Ballet” by Georgy Petrusov, “Body and Inspiration” by Dieter Blum, “Diana Vishneva through the Lens of Patrick Demarchelier”, the project “Dance in Vogue” ", which included works by George Hoyningen-Huyen, Cecil Beaton, Sylvie Guillem and others, an exhibition by Vladimir Fridkes dedicated to the Bolshoi star - Svetlana Zakharova.

At all times, Russian ballet has been at the forefront of ballet art. Without the productions of Marius Petipa, the choreography of George Balanchine, and “Russian Seasons” by Sergei Diaghilev, it is simply impossible to imagine the art of the 20th century. The Bolshoi Theater, in turn, remained a symbol of Russia for the whole world, a platform on which the most significant, interesting, and discussed events in the field of classical art took place.

The concept of the Fashion and Style in Photography festival, which traditionally introduces viewers to the masterpieces of world photography and the work of young Russian and foreign photographers, is to study the concept of style and its evolution. This year the main theme of the biennale is “Wind of Time”. The project by Bolshoi Theater ballet dancer Dmitry Starshinov, who spent a year filming behind-the-scenes life and the rehearsal process, couldn’t be more in line with the central theme and general concept of the biennale. The exhibition not only shows what happens behind the scenes at the Bolshoi. It allows you to see how the theater, whose ballet troupe is known throughout the world, primarily thanks to the classical repertoire, is constantly expanding its stylistic range, inviting modern choreographers, composers and directors to collaborate.

The exhibition includes filming of classical ballets, but the emphasis is on modern ballet productions of the theater, speaking to the audience in a different visual and plastic language. Among them are performances staged in recent years specifically commissioned by the Bolshoi Theater. This is, first of all, “Hero of Our Time” by the young composer Ilya Demutsky. It was staged by choreographer Yuri Posokhov and director Kirill Serebrennikov and was awarded the Golden Mask Award as the best ballet performance of 2016.

Another performance, the world premiere of which took place at the Bolshoi, was the ballet “The Taming of the Shrew,” staged to Shostakovich’s music by the outstanding contemporary choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot and also awarded the “Golden Mask” as the best ballet performance (2015). The photographs included in the exhibition were taken during the triumphal tour of the Bolshoi Theater at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (London) in July - August 2016.

Shostakovich's legacy became the source of inspiration for another premiere of the Bolshoi in recent years - the play "Hamlet" directed by Radu Poklitaru, Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod.

Photo: Dmitry Starshinov. Big theater. Provided by the MAMM press service

Another section of the exhibition is dedicated to two performances that were the fruit of the Bolshoi Theater’s collaboration with Alexei Ratmansky, who is today one of the most sought-after choreographers in the world: “Bright Stream” (“Golden Mask” for the best work of a choreographer, 2004; British Critics Award, 2006 ) and “Russian Seasons” by the modern composer Leonid Desyatnikov, with whom the Bolshoi Theater staged a number of productions (“Russian Seasons” was awarded the “Golden Mask” in the category “Best Performance in Ballet”, 2010).

Finally, a special place in the exhibition is occupied by the ballet “Ondine” by the German composer Hans Werner Henze, staged by Vyacheslav Samodurov. The set design of the performance was made in a distinctly minimalist style by the famous British theater designer Anthony McIlwaine.

Dmitry Starshinov’s first personal exhibition opens up for viewers a different, “non-ceremonial” Bolshoi. Together with the photographer, we will be able to observe the work process, intense rehearsals, moments of relaxation and the highest concentration of artists before going on stage - something that is usually hidden from prying eyes. And all this must be seen in order to try to understand how magnificent performances are born on the Bolshoi stage, which are deservedly admired by the whole world.

Photo: Dmitry Starshinov. Big theater. Provided by the MAMM press service

Manege. 200 years in the center of events

In 2017, the Moscow Central Exhibition Hall “Manege” turns 200 years old. In the anniversary year, the Manege association together with the Multimedia Art Museum prepared a project dedicated to the history of the main exhibition space of the capital. Archival photographic materials will be exhibited directly in the foyer of the Central Manege, which for the whole year, with the help of modern architectural solutions, is transformed into several exhibition modules with various exhibition projects.

“Manege. 200 years in the center of events" - a story about what happened over the course of two centuries in a building erected according to the design of A. Betancourt and decorated by O. Beauvais, as well as how the construction of the Manege influenced the urban planning situation, to what extent this architectural structure responded and formed the social demand, what functions it was endowed with at different times, and what role it generally played in the life of Moscow. Today it is almost impossible to imagine the urban landscape without it. Epochs and the appearance of the city around change, but the Central Manege has long become one of the most important unchanging dominants and cultural attractions, without which it is impossible to imagine the city center. In the year when the Manege turns 200 years old, the viewer will see images of this building, captured by the most famous photographers of their time: A.B. Abazoy, V.A. Gende-Rothe, M.P. Grachev, V.R. Lagrange, O.Ya. Mamet, N.N. Rakhmanov and many others (photos from the collection of the Multimedia Art Museum).

Over its long life, the Manege witnessed many historical events; it changed its functions, becoming either a military unit - hosting parades of imperial troops, or a cultural one - a concert and exhibition hall. The latter determined its modern existence as the central exhibition site of the city. Traveling through eras, the viewer will follow the path of the Central Manege from the Exertsirhaus through the government garage to the exhibition space.

During the anniversary year, the Manege association will show a series of projects in collaboration with major city institutions, including the Multimedia Art Museum, the Museum of Moscow, the Museum of Architecture, the street art biennale Artmosphere, and many others. Even without visiting the exhibitions, visitors will be able to see what the Central Manege was like before, and how artists see it in the future. The foyer of the building will turn into several new transformable exhibition spaces, in which there will be a place for archival photographs, historical objects, films, and contemporary artistic practices.

The Multimedia Art Museum together with Manege presents exhibitions as part of the Fashion and Style in Photography 2017 biennale, which will be held at the Manege Central Exhibition Hall from April 10 to May 9.

Festival "Circulation(s)"

Manege will host an exhibition of works by participants of the Circulation(s) festival - one of the most original projects in the field of contemporary photography. The festival organizers strive to show the diversity of photographic practices that exist in Europe and are aimed at discovering new talents. Circulation(s) is a project of the non-profit organization “Fetar”, specially created in 2005 to support young photographers. The festival, which is both a springboard for young photographers and a living creative laboratory, today occupies a special place in the French and world photographic scene.

The curator of MAMM reviewed the works of festival participants over the past few years and selected the best projects of 27 artists, which are shown in an expanded version at the Moscow exhibition. Young artists reflect on the world that surrounds us and the events that happen around us. Some projects are a reflection on the history of art, others address social problems, others are devoted to analyzing the nature of the absurd and banal, natural and artificial, and trying to grasp the fine line between them.

The project was implemented with the support of the French Embassy in Russia and the French Institute, Panasonic, as well as Arte Actions Culturelles.

Masaccio & Drovilal. "Paparazzi"

By juxtaposing disparate, often contradictory images, blurring the boundaries between the natural and the artificial, Masaccio & Drovilal provoke the viewer, who is doomed to balance on the brink of disgust and pleasure. In the “Paparazzi” project, Masaccio & Drovilal superimpose cut-out silhouettes of tabloid stars onto idealized natural backgrounds, “placing” them in stadiums and city streets. The starting point for this series was a collection of photographs of stars found in magazines and the Internet. All the heroes of the future series were “caught” by the paparazzi at the moment when they indulged in their usual daily activities as relaxed as possible. By incorporating images of stars into a variety of landscapes, artists neutralize the sensational nature of the photographs conceived by the paparazzi. “There is a shift from the sensational photograph of the star to the anonymous crowd. We found it very interesting,” admits Robert Drovilal.

The project was implemented with the support of the French Embassy in Russia, the French Institute in Russia and Raffaello

Italian cinema stars: unknown archives

The exhibition “Stars of Italian Cinema: Unknown Archives” includes previously never published photographs from the collection of one of the largest photographic archives of Italian cinema of the 1950s - 1970s. To manage the archive, which contains more than 65,000 negatives, the cultural association “Latitude” was created by film and photography lovers. She is engaged in preserving and replenishing its funds. In the near future, Latitude plans to digitize the entire archive and create an electronic database to provide researchers and cinephiles with broad access to the materials stored in it and ensure their future exhibition status.

MAMM was the first to show viewers a small part of the masterpieces that the archive has. The photographs included in the exhibition were created in the 1950s - 1960s, a period of unprecedented heyday of Italian cinema. The authors of these photographs are mostly unknown, but thanks to them we can immerse ourselves in the amazing, mischievous, sparkling and at the same time very homely atmosphere that reigned on the sets of films that are today world classics.

The project was implemented with the support of Raffaello, Romeadvisor.com and the Red Tulip charitable association

Dmitry Starshinov. "Big. New time"

MAMM presents Dmitry Starshinov’s exhibition “Big. New time." Dance is one of the most photogenic art forms. Bright, talented, flexible, incredibly beautiful ballet dancers have inspired and continue to inspire the greatest photographers to create series that almost instantly become classics of world photography. The project of Bolshoi Theater ballet dancer Dmitry Starshinov, who spent a year filming behind-the-scenes life and the rehearsal process, shows what happens behind the Bolshoi stage. It allows you to see how the theater, whose ballet troupe is known throughout the world, primarily thanks to the classical repertoire, is constantly expanding its stylistic range, inviting modern choreographers, composers and directors to collaborate.

Kristina Kretova (leading soloist) is preparing to perform as Katarina. "The Taming of the Shrew", 2016

The exhibition includes filming of classical ballets, but the emphasis is on modern ballet productions of the theater, speaking to the audience in a different visual and plastic language. Dmitry Starshinov’s first personal exhibition opens up for viewers a different, “non-ceremonial” Bolshoi. Together with the photographer, we will be able to observe the work process, intense rehearsals, moments of relaxation and the highest concentration of artists before going on stage - all that is usually hidden from prying eyes. And all this must be seen in order to try to understand how magnificent performances are born on the Bolshoi stage, which are deservedly admired by the whole world.

“Manege. 200 years at the center of events"

In 2017, the Moscow central exhibition hall “Manege” turns two hundred years old. In this anniversary year, the Manege association together with the Multimedia Art Museum prepared a project dedicated to the history of the main exhibition space of the capital. Archival photographic materials (including photographs by A.B. Abazoy, V.A. Gende-Rote, M.P. Grachev, V.R. Lagrange, O.Ya. Mamet from the MAMM collection) will be exhibited directly in the foyer of the Central Manege, which for the whole year, with the help of modern architectural solutions, is transformed into several exhibition modules with various exhibition projects.

“Manege. 200 years at the center of events" is a story about what happened all these two centuries in a building designed by A. Betancourt and decorated by O. Beauvais, as well as how it influenced the urban planning situation, how it responded and shaped social demand, what functions were assigned at different times, what role it played in the life of Moscow in general. Today it is almost impossible to imagine the urban landscape without it. Epochs and the appearance of the city around change, but the Central Manege has long become one of the most important unchanging architectural landmarks and cultural attractions, without which it is impossible to imagine the city center.