Museum of Contemporary Art in St. Petersburg

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In St. Petersburg State University established the Museum of Modern Art, the first in the structure of this kind. MICHAEL b-Trofimenko clarify details from the Director Dr. Art Museum, St. Petersburg State University Professor Tatiana Yurieva.

- Why did the university needed a museum of modern art?

- This would have been if it had not been Center for the Arts named Serge Diaghilev, which I created in 1990, if there was no university in the Smolny Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Institute of Arts. First-I at the University of shock: come some aunt with pictures, and nothing but the excess of cholera, from it we should not wait.

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- which will house the museum?

- In the basement of the XVIII century chic with huge brick arches on the 9-th Line Vasilevsky Island, in the building of the Smolny Institute. We will keep the old, these walls, the aroma room. There are four hundred meters, a lot of compartments, you can skip the movies, performances suit. You can give young Wall: Let decorate. Warehouse and office - not far away, at the 6-th line. Open real can fall to the centennial of the Paris "Russian Seasons" Diaghilev.

- The crisis will not interfere?

- The only area for which a crisis is useful, it is art. The crisis is not economic but moral. I'm his museum with all its gaiety of relaxation and raise the issue of historical responsibility. Across Europe, the petty bourgeoisie is thriving, the art of sinking, this led to the crisis.

- Museum staff approved?

- It's very funny, but the museum has five people.

- What will go down in the museum collection?

- First, the museum handed over the entire sculpture park, established in recent years in the courtyard of Philology, which at least one hundred objects. Secondly, the 164 works from the collection of Diaghilev Center. For 18 years it's been more than 300 exhibitions, and each time the artists were given something, something, but very little we bought. So, we got a present ten works of the late Alika Rappoport of the series "Images of San Francisco, founded by him in exile. We ourselves, however, also gave something: so, we had Timur Novikov, but we gave him to Boston University.

- "Contemporary Art" - a loose concept. Collection of Diaghilev center - this works, let's say, "left" of St. Petersburg artists past 30 years. It is not necessary to clarify whether, to narrow the title?

- This, of course, is not the modern, but about contemporary art. And not only Russian. I wish that I had and academic artists, this is also history.

- So you will not refuse any of Isaac Brodsky, nor from Andy Warhol?

- Of course.

- And if you still assess the prospects of the museum's collection with a more realistic point of view?

- Well, of course, the emphasis is on Petersburg. In a sober assessment of the museum will present art from the 1970's. If you have received, from the 1950's. Although we have work and artists of the older generation. For example, Alexander Baturin, who, before he was imprisoned "for the murder of Kirov, managed to learn from the pillars of the Russian avant 1920. But I do not have anyone to compete, I am 25 years old teacher and make a museum for youth and students that they, as a generation of Diaghilev, imbibed the art from his youth. The word "museum" people are usually present: bought a ticket, hang pictures. Go then to the Hermitage or the Russian Museum. We do not need this.
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