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Annette Messager
«Fictions, temptations, manipulations»

25 June – 15 August, 2010

The Eighth International Photography Month in Moscow «Photobiennale 2010»

April 10 - June 6

Long Night of Museums 2010

The Cultural Foundation “EKATERINA” took part in the international cultural event Long Night of Museums. On the night of 15 to 16 of May, the exhibition halls of the Foundation demonstrating the Photobiennale 2010 were open from 8 p.m. till 2 a.m. free of charge.

«Jean-Marc Bustamante’s personal exhibition»

February 3 - March 28, 2010

Jean-Marc Bustamante has become a leader of the so-called “plastic photography” trend that has caused a revolution in art over the last two decades. Since the late 1970-s, Bustamante has been offering his photography to the audience as a very specific form of painting, and than he broadened the horizons of his artistic search by involving sculpture and painting, as well as conceptual installations. The project presented in the Cultural Foundation “EKATERINA” was the first Bustamante’s retrospective. The exhibition demonstrated his creative evolution to the full extent, including both photography dating back to late 1970-s and his most recent paintings on Plexiglas. Due to its chronological structure and the crossing of various motives, names, colors and materials, the exhibition gave the audience a unique chance to feel and reconstruct the relations between photography, sculpture, and painting.

The project was carried out as part of the program “Year of Russia and France, 2010”, under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture (Russian Federation) and the Embassy of France in the Russian Federation.

Jean-Marc Bustamante’s Exhibition Catalogue

For the opening of the first retrospective exhibition of one of the leading contemporary French artists Jean-Marc Bustamante shown in the halls of the «EKATERINA» Foundation within the framework of the “Year of Russia and France, 2010”, an illustrated catalogue in French and Russian has been issued. The catalogue sequentially shows and demonstrates various aspects and stages of development of his multidimensional art. The catalogue presented the "Large-scale paintings ", which brought the author the world’s fame, as well as "Photographic paintings” - the prototype of the "plastic photograph” that became a phenomenon at the end of the last century. The catalogue reflects the latest directions of Bustamante’s creative work including photographic prints and paintings on Plexiglas, and demonstrates Bustamante’s creativity and experimentation in the field of photography, sculpture, and painting.

«A Feast of Wonders: Sergey Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes» To The 100 Anniversary of «Russian Ballets» in Paris

October 28, 2009 – January 31, 2010

“A Feast of Wonders” was a large-scale international project devoted to the famous “Russian Ballets”- Sergey Diaghilev’s theatrical enterprise. The unique exposition presented in Moscow till January 31, included more than 500 masterpieces by famous Russian and French painters of the XX century:  L. Bakst, A. Benois, N. Goncharova, M. Larionov, G. Braque, H. Matisse and the others. In accordance with Diaghilev’s ballet programs, the exposition had several thematic sections devoted to classical ballet, oriental trends, the Russian theme, and avant-garde productions. Many of the works provided by private owners from different countries were shown in Russia for the first time. The exhibition project was realized by the Ñultural Foundation “EKATERINA” in cooperation with the New National Museum of Monaco and with the participation of the State Tretyakov Gallery.

Place: The State Tretyakov Gallery at 10, Krymsky Val, halls ¹ 60–61

“Persona. Image. Time. Human Representation in Art: from Modernism to the Present-day”

September 18 – December 13, 2009

The exhibition was structured both thematically and chronologically. It was divided into three major parts: Russian art of the late 19th — early 20th centuries, Russian art from 1917 to 1985, and Russian and Western art from the mid-1980s to 2008. There were several themes in each period, dedicated to particular trends and shown the changes in the artistic approach to interpreting the image of man during a certain era: From Academic Art to Modernism, From Avant-garde to Soviet Art, Other Art, Image of Man in the Era of Mass Media and Globalization.
The authors of the idea and the project’s curator wished to identify the main development trend of the theme, compare works from different eras, cultures and styles, demonstrate interesting parallels and contrasts, the dialogue between Western and Russian art.