Cultural Alliance. The Project Of Marat Guelman
The starting point for the creation of this project was the three sources.
One of them is the activity of Guelman, which was founded in 1990 and lived stormy artistic life for 22 years. Her success story began with "South Russian wave", brought in the capital Wednesday, the new creative forces. In a sense, the new project continues this tradition.
For a long time there was a belief that regardless of where he lives the artist, if he is talented, he will break in the capital, will be exhibited in Moscow galleries and museums. Until a certain time I shared this misconception.
Second – Association "Cultural Alliance", existing since 2010 It was created as an Association of the cities, where there is an independent artistic life in contemporary culture.
During 2 years the Association conducted two major festival and a dozen exhibitions, due to which it became clear that far from Moscow there are interesting artistic community that regional artists do not feel completely cut off from the capital and even international art scene that they speak the language of contemporary art, overcoming and geography and biography.
And finally, the third source – the exhibition "Art against geography", held in 2011 within the framework of the 4th Moscow Biennale of contemporary art. She was pleasantly surprised by both professionals and the General public really high quality works of unknown artists. Besides solution of artistic tasks, the exhibition demonstrated the new situation in Russian art, in which the regions are beginning to interact and cooperate with the Russian artistic community in order to overcome depression territory independently, without the ministries of culture, state museums and other official institutions.
"Cultural Alliance. The project of Marat Guelman gallery is a non-profit organization, its task is to transform Moscow art scene in Russia. The first two years, we will acquaint the Moscow art situation in Russian cities. At the same time we plan to work as a producer in Russian Agency for artists and gallery. We hope to expand the circle of the authors represented in the gallery, not only by young people but at the expense of Mature artists living outside Moscow.
We hope that this program will be of interest already held collectors, as it will give them new names for replenishment of collections, as well as on the involvement of new collectors of Russian cities, who will present high-quality art at reasonable prices.
As the curator of Museum exhibitions of course, I plan to continue to cooperate with the majority of artists of the Moscow art scene, with those artists who know, love, in whom we believe.
In a sense the "Cultural Alliance is an organization of a new type, in which in addition to supervisors and staff gallery on projects works "Design workshop Guelman". Ie is a platform on which students of the RSUH, Moscow state University, UNIC and other future curators and art-managers will be able to get their first experience, to implement their first project.
We hope that the new exhibit will be interesting for Moscow residents and will contribute to the rich cultural life of the capital.
Work time:
Tue – Sun: 12.00 – 20.00
Closed: Monday
