In the St. Petersburg art space mArs (Marsovo Pole, 3) on Tuesday, June 13, a meeting with art critic Alexander Korolev “The history of contemporary art in Russia without names” will take place. The event will be held as part of the “Kvartirnik” project. The start is at 19:00.
Today, the history of contemporary art in Russia is most reminiscent of Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Most Famous Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1540). If you start to get acquainted with it, then first of all you will come across biographies of individual artists, catalogs of their exhibitions and reviews of their art.
But it is not for nothing that no one today considers the history of the Renaissance the way Vasari did. His books are now only an invaluable source of factual information, but what he saw as an end became a means for his followers.
Probably, the same fate will someday befall the knowledge that has been accumulated today by the archive of contemporary Russian art. However, given the final circumstances of his stay in today, it is time to start making some generalizations.
Tickets can be purchased on TimePad or at the box office before the event.
Source: Rosbalt
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