“supreMADIsm”
Homage to the
masters of Russian Constructivism
International
art festival and exhibition series
Moscow, May 10
to June 5, 2006
Between May 10
and June 5, 2006, the International Mobile MADI Museum Foundation, based
in Hungary, organizes “supreMADIsm”: Homage to the masters of
Russian Constructivism, an international art festival and related exhibitions
in Moscow.
The history of geometric art spanned the entire 20th century, beginning
with early suprematism and continuing through MADI, the contemporary geometric
art movement that manifested itself 60 years ago and is actively present
even today. The supreMADIsm Festival
leads the fully matured and almost classicized geometrical tendencies (Suprematism, Neo-Plasticism, Russian Constructivism,
Art Concret, Kinetism, and MADI)
back to their common cradle, Moscow.
In addition to
paying homage to the masters of Constructivism, the festival will chiefly
aim further to enhance cultural exchange contacts, with special regard
to the invitation extended to Russian creative artists to contribute to
the public collection of the Hungarian Mobile MADI Museum. They will also be
expected to join the international MADI movement, which commemorates the
60th anniversary of its inauguration in 2006.
"… memory alone is in the position to make the meaning and depth
of a happening manifest to us, for we need a certain point of view and
certain distancing in order to decipher the message intended for us."
(P. Henri Boulad)
Through homage
and commemoration, PAST finds its way into the heart of the PRESENT today
– while the cells of the FUTURE stem from the present. The “supreMADIsm”
art festival intends to encourage this intellectual process, record it, and
make it part of art history in Moscow.
Conception and
main organizer
International Mobile MADI Museum Foundation,
Budapest
Zsuzsa Dárdai, János Saxon-Szász
(founding curators)
Co-organizer
Symmetry Seminar
of the International Symmetry Association,
Moscow/Budapest
Sergey V. Petoukhov, György Darvas (curators)
Organising institutions
NCCA National
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow
Leonid
Bazhanov (art director), Vitaly Patsukov (curator)
Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Vassily Tsereteli, executive director, Ludmila
Andreeva, curator)
Hungarian Cultural,
Academic and Information Centre, Moscow
Ilona
Kiss (director), Sándor Kozlov (curator)
Venues of the
events
- Moscow Museum
of Modern Art
(Moscow, Petrovka 25)
- NCCA National
Centre for Contemporary Arts
(Moscow, ul. Zoologicheskaya 13)
- Hungarian
Cultural, Academic and Information Centre
(Moscow, ul. Povarskaya 21)
- Club “Bilingua”,
Krivokolenniy per., 10, bld. 5
- The sign
burial place of Kazimir Malevich, Nemchinovka
The main patrons
are and open the Festival, respectively
András Bozóki
(minister of Cultural Heritage, Republic of Hungary)
Alexander
S. Sokolov (minister of Culture and Mass Communication, Russian Federation)
Artistic patron
of the Festival
László Beke,
director of the Research Institute for Art History of the Hungarian Academy
of Sciences
Scientific patron
of the Festival
K.V. Frolov,
member of the Societal Chamber of the president of the Russian Federation,
past-vice-president of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Main sponsors
Ministry of Hungarian
Cultural Heritage
PROGRAM OF THE
FESTIVAL
WEDNESDAY, May
10
Hungarian
Cultural, Academic and Information Centre
“supreMADIsm”: official press
conference
Time: 4.00 pm
Moderator: Sándor Kozlov
(H)
International
exhibition of graphic art from the collection of the International Mobile
MADI Museum
Time: 6.00 pm
Opening ceremony: Zsuzsa Dárdai
(H)
Exhibition design and setup: János Saxon-Szász
(H)
(Open:
May 11 to June 5)
Mobile MADI Museum
graphic collection
THURSDAY, May
11
NCCA
(National Centre for Contemporary Arts)
Conference: Geometry in art and science (Day 1)
Time: 10.00 am to
2.00 pm
Coference opened by K. V. Frolov
(RUS),
György Darvas (H)
Vitaly Patsukov:
“Russian constructivism in the past and the present”
Zsuzsa Dárdai:
“From Suprematism to supreMADIsm”
Krisztina Passuth:
“Moholy-Nagy and Russian constructivism: Elective affinities”
A. Shatskih: "Malevich and Roslvaez"
Exhibition of
early Constructivist and MADI posters from the collection
of the International Mobile MADI Museum
Time: 4.00pm
Opened by Leonid Bazhanov (RUS)
(Open: May 12 to May 21)
Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art
"Mobile MADI Museum"
International
exhibition, from Brasil, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary,
Japan, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Slovakia, Uruguay, USA,
Venezuela), completed with the works by the Russian masters of the 1920s
Malevich, Tatlin, Rodchenko, Lissitzky…
(Open: May 11 to June 5)
Exhibition design and setup: János Saxon-Szász
(H)
Time: 6.00pm
Opening ceremony: Vitaly Patsukov
(RUS), László Beke (H)
Performance: Josée Lapeyrère
(F)
Fashion show: Performance
design by Anna Koleychuk (RUS)
Reception:
Constructivist dinner service for guests and participants
Project concept Anna Koleychuk
Film
show
Time:
All days at 10.00am to 6.00pm
·
The masters of Russian Constructivism: Malevich, Rodchenko, Tatlin, El
Lissitzky (Film Archives, Moscow)
· Moholy-Nagy, Péri (Film Archives, Budapest)
· Portrait of Lajos Kassák (22’); directed by Boris Zsigmondi (H)
· Kassák (35’); directed by Tamás B. Farkas (H)
· Universo MADI: Portrait of Carmelo Arden Quin (35’); directed by Zsuzsa
Dárdai (H)
· Museo MADI Sobral: Compiled by Jean Branchet (F)
FRIDAY, May
12
NCCA (National
Centre for Contemporary Arts)
Conference: Geometry in art and science (Day 2)
Time: 10.00 am to
6.00 pm
Tatyana Bonch-Osmolovskaya:
“Constructions
in literature: the 10-ies of XX century, etc.”
Sergey Fedin:
“Literature manifests:
from Futurists to the Laboratory of MegaPoetry”
Alexandr
V. Bubnov: “SUPER-SUPRE-SONNET, art-science project”
Vladimir
Buslenko: “Russian hieroglyphic texts”
Lunch break
Vyacheslav Koleychuk:
“The Evolution of My Kinetic Work”
Alexander
Koblyakov & Igor Yevin: “Dimensionality in music”
László
Beke: "Ornametry"
Dániel
Erdély: "The Expanding Spidron Universe"
SATURDAY, May
13
NCCA (National
Centre for Contemporary Arts)
Conference: Geometry in art and science (Day 3)
Time: 10.00 am to
4.00 pm
János
Fajó: “Russian Constructivism in the past and the present
in Middle Europe”
János Saxon-Szász & Boldizsár Fejérvári: "The poly-dimensional
Black Square"
Irina Anishchenko: “Suprematist elements in Russian church architecture”
Ravin Galiulin: “Crystallography as an element of culture.
The shared roots of the geometry of crystals and relativity theory”
Sergey Petoukhov: “Geometrical properties
of the genetic code and the symbolic system of the Ancient Chinese book
"I-Ching"”.
György Darvas: “The generalization of geometric symmetries in the
science and art of the 20th century”
"Real
& Impossible".
Suprematist anthology: Visual-acoustic Performance
Time: 6.00pm
Author and Composer: Iraida Yusupova
Video: Iraida Yusupova and Alexander Dolgin
Author of the original idea G. Darvas
Performed by: German Vinogradov and the Aksenova
sisters on percussion
instruments from the collection of G.
Vinogradov and on theremin
Club
“Bilingua”
Time:
8.00pm
Multimedia project: “Two Kandinskys”
A special version by Vadim Tallerov based on the etude of Alexander Stroganov
Performed by
Victor Kandinsky, psychiatrist: Vladimir Piskunov (text)
Vasily Kandinsky, artist: Konstantin Mishin (dance)
Gabriel Münter, Chana Levinson, Olga Bessonova:
Ira Honto (dance)
Musicians: Nikolai L'govsky (percussion)
Vyacheslav Koleychuk (ovaloid, self-stretched bells)
Mark Belodubrovsky (violin)
Author of the original
idea, director and stage manager: Vadim Tallerov
Costumes designed by Anna Koleychuk
Light-effects by Sergei Shevchenko
Video-art by Dmitry Koleychuk
Assistant director: Yevgeny Pynin
There are red poems by Vasily Kandinsky and there are projected his pictures
"Moscow", "Composition No. 6" and "Concert"
Programmes of the ensemble "Open stage" are sponsored by the Metropolitan
Cultural Committee of Moscow.
SUNDAY, May
14
Nemchinovka in the vicinity of Moscow
Time:
10.00am to 3.00pm
Commemoration
and homage at the sign burial place of Kazimir Malevich in Nemchinovka
Contact
International
Mobil MADI Museum Foundation
http://www.mobil-madi.hu/
Zsuzsa Dárdai
founding curator
17 Timár St., Budapest, H-1034 Hungary
Phone/Fax: 36 1 387-5790; Mobile: 36 30 524-1305
E-mail
