until Sunday June 02 2013
Garage Center
T : +7 (495)6 45 05 20
9/45 Krymsky Val st
119049 Moscow
Russia
Garage Center for Contemporary Culture presents the first exhibition in Russia by The Museum of Everything – the world’s first and only travelling museum for undiscovered, unintentional and untrained artist
Exhibition #5 is the largest survey of contemporary, self-taught, non-traditional art in Russia today. It is the culmination of a summer-long journey across the country, during which The Museum of Everything travelled to Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Moscow to find unknown artists.
Exhibition #5 features over 50 newly discovered artists, all working in diverse and unexpected contexts. Their artworks – generally created without any formal or academic training – reveal highly personal and authentic forms of expression, uninhibited by influences from established art circles.
The Museum of Everything aims to introduce these artworks to a wide audience, broadening our understanding of what can be termed or accepted as contemporary art. Most importantly, Exhibition #5 reveals some of the most unusual and invisible creative voices in 21st century Russia, including elderly, amateur and homeless artists, and artists with learning and physical disabilities.
Exhibition #5 also includes work by some of Russia’s historic self-taught artists, including Pavel Leonov, Alexander Lobanov and Nicolai Almazov. These examples illustrate the rich tradition of non-professional art within Russian culture, which has influenced artists like Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich and Natalia Goncharova, and contemporary artists like Ilya and Emilia Kabak
