Please the eye: Polit.Ru poster, exhibitions

In times like ours, it’s not so easy for a person with whom nothing particularly terrible is happening (try now, and complain about life if you’re free and a rocket hasn’t landed in your house), it’s not easy to stay afloat. It is much easier to fall into a pit of despair. Wandering around exhibitions is a way to keep yourself on the edge. Yes, not without a touch of escapism, so what? It is important to see beauty, it is important to remember that people are not only capable of killing and torturing each other. This is perhaps even more important now than before.

And again, the week is not without premieres - by the way, our poster is specific, and the premiere for us is what we paid attention to, and not what was revealed today; we are solipsists on this issue. In Moscow, for example, at the Pushkin Museum - “From Color to Light” , an exhibition dedicated to the centenary of Vladimir Weisberg (Gallery of European and American Art of the 19th – 20th centuries, until June 30). A difficult and important artist who existed somewhere between official recognition and nonconformist rebellion, but who retained the ability to move along his own path.

In the Grodekovsky Museum of Khabarovsk - “Masterpieces from the collection of the Shchusev Museum of Architecture” . There are many different exhibitions in Shchusevsky, we talked about them, but while the halls in Moscow are busy, a lot of wonderful things from the collection went to Khabarovsk. If you are there, you need to go. Until May 12.

In St. Petersburg at the Mikhailovsky Castle until July 8 - “Drawings and watercolors of the Wanderers.” And so on.

But again we want to talk about less noticeable events. About different and strange things. Moreover, among the different and strange, brilliant things can be found. And amazing little things.

Our partner, as usual, is Project North.

Moscow

Let's start with the amazing little things. “Amazing Little Things” is a new exhibition at the Museum of Decorative Arts. XVIII - XX centuries, a variety of things that are united by size. Everything is very small. The exhibition is a joint one with the Tropinin Museum.

Delegatskaya, 3. Until May 19 .

In the Stella Foundation - this is in the City - “About all the things that live there.” A) The exhibition has a beautiful name. B) The artists whose works are presented - Nina Kotel, Alexandra Mitlyanskaya, Evgenia Solomatina - are interesting. In general, Nina Kotel seems to us to be a very serious master, but this is a matter of taste. C) Among the works of Nina Kotel, a picturesque frieze 25 meters long is exhibited!

Tower "Mercury", 1st Krasnogvardeisky proezd, 15, 2nd floor. Until June 23.

We have already talked about the exhibition of works by Mikhail Roginsky at the Vellum gallery. But there’s another one going on in Moscow right now – at the pop/off/art gallery. It’s called “Moscow, st. Gorky" . And there’s nothing special to expand on here, Roginsky is an absolute genius, go and look. Then you will thank me.

Bolshoi Palashevsky Lane, 9, until April 19.

In the “Ruin” wing of the Shchusev Museum of Architecture (this is in the courtyard, behind the main building, a beautiful red brick house, nothing like ruins) - “Point of view. To the 110th anniversary of the architect-restorer Alexei Ivanovich Khamtsov.” In the second half of the last century, Khamtsov created a whole series of large panoramic views of beautiful and ancient places - Solovki, the Pskov-Pechersk Lavra, the Kremlins of Pskov and Novgorod... This is what they all show.

Vozdvizhenka, 5/25, from April 3 to June 9.

In the New Tretyakov Gallery - Vladimir Konashevich . You've probably read children's books with his illustrations, and you'll immediately remember them when you visit the exhibition. But there are also big things here; he not only illustrated books.

Krymsky Val, building 10, main exhibition, room 19. Until September 1.

And a bonus track: in Elohovsky Gallery - “Balagan Coat” . There is a whole story here: in the nineties there was such an artist, Alexander Petrelli. He collected small-format works by various other contemporary artists and displayed them in a very special way - he walked around other people’s exhibitions in a coat, approached the audience, opened his coat... And on the lining - like a scarce commodity from a Soviet speculator - these same works.

By the way, why “was”? Everything is fine with Petrelli and he even wanders around the exhibition, where, in fact, those very small things are presented. No special masterpieces, but the scent of an era that no longer exists.

The exhibition is only until April 1st. If you run fast, you will have time.

Elokhovsky proezd, 1 building 2 .

Not-Moscow

In St. Petersburg, at the Museum of the History of Religion - “Leniniana. Myth and image." An attempt to comprehend the transformation of the leader of the world proletariat into a cult character. Quite the profile, very interesting.

Pochtamtskaya, 14. Until June 25.

In Yekaterinburg, at the Yeltsin Center - “Kremlin Kitchen” . Menu of presidential gala dinners in the context of historical events.

Boris Yeltsin, 3, cinema hall foyer. Until May 19.

And in the same place, but in the Naive Museum - “Naive Reportage” . Living life through the eyes of the artist Yuri Sherov. Airborne Forces Day, Maslenitsa, the famous jogging of E.V. Roizman, who was included in the register of foreign agents by the Ministry of Justice for his love for the fatherland, and other city scenes.

Rosa Luxemburg, no. 18, until May 19.

It’s not that we believe that anyone will be lucky enough to get into the Museum-Estate of the Seto people in the village of Sigovo near Izborsk in the near future, but if suddenly - there are “God’s Towels” , a special ritual embroidery.

In Serpukhov, near Moscow, in the Intercession Old Believer Church (it’s next to the museum) - “We worship Your Cross , Master...” Icons dedicated to the symbolism of the Cross.

Chekhova, 83. Until August 28.

Where we started is where we’ll end – go to museums. We need beauty; it can do without us.