Vitaly Manin: What be the Tretyakov Gallery in the 21 century

[OTROK NIKODIM]

Interview with new director of the Tretyakov Gallery Irina Lebedeva (N », № 39-40) caused a considerable resonance in the artistic environment, and among our readers. As we promised, we continue the theme. At this time, our interlocutor was the Doctor of Arts, Professor Vitaly Manin - known museum leader, historian and art theorist.

Vitaliy Manin.jpg-Vitali Serafimovich, in its response to an interview with the director of GTG doctor of sociology Yuri Chernetsky (N », № 43) appealed to the world experience, when the classical and contemporary art on display in various museums: for example, the Louvre Museum and Center Pompidou. From your point of view, this separation is justified?

- Of course, justified. But we must understand why you want the separation. For centuries, art has changed, but retained its core, a form of knowledge and reflection of the world. An essential feature of any art is the aesthetic component. Without it, the image of life becomes art. The status of the Tretyakov Gallery is a museum of fine art and nothing else. In Moscow, there are museums and other arts - crafts, theater, architecture. And, thank God, that there ragged shoes, doormat and heaps of sand does not belong to art, as well as to the profile of the museum. It is quite another - the Tretyakov Gallery. There, in the department of Modern Art exhibited "exhibits" exactly the kind of: bath, brought to the garbage (Vinogradov), net holstiki without any signs of the image, called "Self" (J. Albert), etc., etc. . It is obvious that these "exhibits" do not have any relation to the Tretyakov Gallery or the arts in general, nor the fine in particular ...
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