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The
Moscow
Museum
of
Modern
Art
is
a
museum
of
modern
and
contemporary
art
located
in
Moscow,
Russia.
It
was
opened
to
public
in
December
1999.
The
project
of
the
Museum
was
initiated
and
executed
by
Zurab
Tsereteli,
president
of
the
Russian
Academy
of
Arts.
In
2018,
The
Vadim
Sidur
Museum
and
Museum-Studio
of
Dmitry
Nalbandyan
merged
into
the
Moscow
Museum
of
Modern
Arts.
The
core
of
the
Museum's
assemblage
was
constituted
from
the
private
collection
of
Zurab
Tsereteli,
its
founder
and
director.
Artworks
of
many
renowned
international
artists
are
exhibited
in
the
Museum's
permanent
collection
halls
like
Marcus
Jansen.
The
highlights
include
objects
and
sculpture
by
Armand,
the
“Sun
Disk”
by
the
famous
Italian
sculptor
Arnaldo
Pomodoro,
the
installation
“CIS
Ant
Farm”
by
the
Japanese
conceptualist
Yukinori
Yanagi,
as
well
as
other
works
of
contemporary
art
based
on
contemporary
technologies.
The
masters
of
European
and
American
art,
such
as
Pablo
Picasso,
Fernand
Léger,
Salvador
Dalí,
Joan
Miró
and
Rufino
Tamayo,
are
represented
by
their
lithographs.
A
special
emphasis
has
been
given
to
the
collection
of
Russian
avant-garde
art.
The
museum
spotlights
works
of
world-famous
artists
of
the
turn
of
the
20th
century:
Kazimir
Malevich,
Alexandra
Exter,
Natalia
Goncharova,
Robert
Falk,
Ivan
Pouni,
Vladimir
Baranov-Rossine
and
David
Burlyuk
(30
pieces).
Visitors
can
also
become
acquainted
with
two
compositions
by
Kandinsky’s
friend
Vladimir
Izdebski,
who
is
known
for
his
“Salons
de
Paris”
series
after
the
revolution
of
1917,
and
also
a
unique
collection
by
the
famous
Georgian
artist
Niko
Pirosmani.
The
Museum
displays
the
interesting
exposition
dedicated
to
the
art
of
non-conformists
of
the
1950–70s,
whose
creative
activity
was
in
the
opposition
to
the
Soviet
ideology.
Among
them
are
V.
Nemukhin,
E.
Steinberg,
V.
Komar,
A.
Melamid,
A.
Ney,
O.
Rabin,
A.
Zverev,
D.
Krasnopevtsev,
and
more.
Contemporaries
are
represented
by
Boris
Orlov,
Dmitry
Prigov,
Francisco
Infante,
Oleg
Kulik,
A.
Brodski,
Aidan
Salakhov,
Lena
Hades,
Valery
Koshlyakov,
Igor
Novikov
and
Serguei
Shutov.
They
are
mostly
focused
on
forms
of
the
so-called
“actual”
art.
The
Moscow
Museum
of
Modern
Art
contains
works
of
art
from
the
first
decades
of
the
20th
century;
the
exposition
is
based
on
contrasts
and
correlations
of
artistic
trends
and
events
in
Russia
and
abroad,
and
is
also
aimed
at
showing
the
integrity
of
the
development
of
world
culture,
while
specifying
the
role
of
the
Russian
art
in
it.
To
celebrate
its
20th
birthday,
the
institution
invited
20
celebrities
from
all
walks
of
life
to
curate
its
anniversary
exhibition.
The
guest
curators
include
Russian
football
star
Fedor
Smolov,
designer
Andrei
Artemov,
writer
Vladimir
Sorokin,
TV
showman
and
art
collector
Andrey
Malakhov,
theatre
director
Kirill
Serebrennikov
and
even
Marusya
(Mail.ru's
voice-controlled
personal
assistant).
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