Cinema in the House on the waterfront will transform into an art gallery

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Cinema "Drummer", occupying a large part of the "House on the Embankment", more than 80 years
                             
                      In the center of Moscow will be the modern Russian art, it will be created on the basis of the cinema "Drummer", suspending screenings in 2010.
                      The initiator of the Centre made a cultural foundation "ArtChronika."
                      The monument to the era of constructivism, a movie theater is part of the famous "House on the Embankment", designed by Boris Iofan in 1931.
                      The creator and head of the Kandinsky Prize Fund "ArtChronika" Shalva Breus, told the magazine of the same name about how it will look like the new center.
                      "This should be a universal cultural center, which will host exhibitions, lectures, movie screenings. Museum of Modern Art, but with universal functions - flexible and interchangeable. If necessary, show room is changing fast: it will be possible to make a chair and turned into a lecture hall, or in a concert hall or in the cinema. - said Shalva Breus. - In addition to exhibitions, we would like to show a movie, situated on the edge of film and video art, such as the "Last Supper" by Peter Greenaway. " And we will be happy if the director read before the show for the audience a lecture. However, the ability to mimic the genre should not contradict the main, the museum's functions. "
                      Sots-art and conceptual art

                      The museum collections will be a collection of pre-existing fund "ArtChronika," which includes, in particular, the works of Eric Bulatov, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, Alexander Kosolapov, Boris Orlov, Victor Pivovarov and other classics of Soviet unofficial art.
                      One of the main tasks of the Centre for Contemporary Art budschego Shalva Breus sees in the upbringing and education of its audience.
                      "The work of artists represented in our collection, do not always beat the price records, and their names will not hear on the art-togethers. But these people have made a fundamental contribution to the history of national art. You can not appease the public taste. This is actually a form of self-censorship. Such indulgence inevitably leads to degeneration of the relationship with the audience, "- says the head of" ArtChronika. "
                      Already this year, will appoint a director of the new museum, to form a board of trustees, and on a competitive basis to choose a company that will the restoration of "drummer".
                      Restoration of the cinema building and the creation will take several years.
                      "In our view, all that is needed - is to remove that to stick by our predecessors, all these trappings, and pull out a stunning original. Plan large-scale architectural restoration have not yet, but, of course, we will gradually refine the original outdated infrastructure. And we'll fit within the allowable building for the museum features "- says Breus.
                      Cinema "Drummer", built in 1931, has long been a major area premiere of the country - there were first-run films "Quiet Flows the Don", "Jolly Fellows", "Circus," "Chapaev" and many others.
                      In recent years, "drummer" was rented movie company, "Caro", whose representatives in November last year announced its modernization.

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this is great news!
good luck to them!