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Press room
April, 2007
Boulatov, superstar
/Moscou est-il le nouveau centre international de l'art contemporain? Indéniablement, si l'on en croit les commentaires enthousiastes des artistes, galeristes, commissaires indépendants et collectionneurs richissimes rencontrés sur place. Interrogés sur les raisons ayant permis l'émergence d'une scene artistique d'une telle vitalité, les uns et les autres divergent.../
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January 26, 2009
Salakhov's 80th Allows for Rare Retrospective
/Out of all the artists who came of age under the Soviet Union, few can lay claim to the stature, and perhaps none to the astonishing personal story, of Tair Salakhov. Now with the 80th anniversary retrospective of over a hundred paintings and drawings at the Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, his ascendance seems to be continuing ever further.../
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October 16, 2008
Gracious Grace Kelly
/Even as the Mika hit fades from the airwaves, the words “Grace Kelly” have burst
back into Moscow, with a photo exhibit documenting the late actress and
monarch’s dazzling life: “The Epoch of Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco,” which will
run until Dec. 3 at the Ekaterina Cultural Foundation near Kuznetsky Most.../
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15 Octobre, 2008
L'engouement de Moscou pour "Les Années Grace Kelly"
/La Princesse Stéphanie a inauguré le 9 octobre dernier l'exposition accueillie a Moscou par la Fondation culturelle Ekaterina, créée par Ekaterina et Vladimir Semenikhin. Celle-ci, située a deux pas du Kremlin et de la place Rouge, a pour vocation la promotion de l'art moderne et de l'art contemporain. C'est un écrin prestigieux qui met en valeur l'exposition, réécrite tout en nuances, ou se melent harmonieusement le côté intime et l'aspect glamour.../
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October 14, 2008
Exhibition titled “Epoch of Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco” in Moscow
/Exhibition titled “Epoch of Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco” is held in the Russian capital. It tells about personal life of the Hollywood star who became wife of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco. The exhibition is timed to coincide with 25 years since her tragic death in a car crash.
The exposition has been already shown in Monaco and Paris. It was brought to Moscow by the Grimaldi Foundation headed by Sovereign Prince Albert II, Grace Kelly’s son. Later the exhibition will travel to London, Rome and New York.../
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October 10, 2008
Grace in Time
/Two years ago, construction tycoon Vladimir Seminikhin was one of the first Russian art collectors to step forward and open up his own gallery space, The Yekaterina Foundation. Since then the gallery has become well known on the art circuit for holding quality exhibitions, ranging in style from Socialist Realism to Russian contemporary art.
This week, a different type of exhibition opens to the public, showing clothes, films and photographs of Grace Kelly, movie star and princess. A larger version of the exhibition opened in Monaco last year and has since toured the world.../
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March 7, 2008
In the Combat Zone. An exhibition at the Yekaterina Cultural Foundation displays contemporary and Soviet artists' views of life in the army.
/Visitors can hear the "Red Army Studio" exhibition in the Yekaterina Cultural Foundation well before they see it. The rumblings of patriotic music are audible near the entrance and the soundtrack is piped through the two floors of the gallery.
Opening just before the Defender of the Fatherland Day celebrations, the exhibition is an artistic documentary on the Red Army and the Russian army today.../
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8th of May, 2008
Exhibitions - Andreas Gursky.
/Not all that many photographers have a truly distinctive style, as while the medium is extremely flexible there's only so much you can do when it comes to technique. Style presents many more options, but it's still hard to find a combination of the two to attain a signature look. Gursky, has got it all worked out.../
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12 Mars 2008
Renaissance de l’invincible soldat soviétique.
/54 peintures et 26 affiches, voici tout ce qui reste de la fameuse Armée rouge qui, fondée en 1918, avait forgé la gloire de l’Etat soviétique. Pour commémorer son 90eme anniversaire, la fondation Ekaterina lui consacre une exposition spéciale.
Délaissées depuis les années 1970 au profit d'un «autre art» non conformiste et non idéologique, les oeuvres de la période du réalisme socialiste trouvent ici un terrain favorable a leur réhabilitation.../
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October 5, 2007
Stripping Brad
Theater director Robert Wilson presents short video portraits that show acting stars in a strange new light.
/By Alastair Gee
Topless and perched on a swing, celebrity burlesque artist Dita Von Teese gazes into the distance with a rapturous expression on her face. She's wearing jewel-encrusted heels and sparkly tassles over her nipples. Suddenly she hears cheering. Her breathing seems to quicken, and her head slowly turns as if to drink up the praise..../
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May 26, 2007
FT REPORT - ARTS COLLECTING: From cold storage to cool new gallery
/By Nora Fitzgerald
Vladimir Yankilevsky's "Door" series offers a poignant odeto urban existence and the idiosyncrasies of communal apartment living during the Soviet Union. Half-a-dozen doorbells are lacquered to the doorframes and notesare taped to the door ("Ivanov Family - ring twice"). At first this appearsornamental, but then it becomes clear that five families once lived behind these doors.../
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08.11.2007
L'OEIL DE MOSCOU
/PAR PAULINE SIMONS
Drouot donne carte blanche a un collectionneur étranger. Ekaterina et Vladimir Semenikhin, a la tete d'une fondation a Moscou, sont les invités de cette nouvelle édition. Rencontre.../
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September 11, 2005
How to Fit a Whole Country Into the Guggenheim
/By KATHRYN SHATTUCK
THE exclamation point may be flamboyant, but "Russia!," the title of the Guggenheim Museum's latest broad-stroke exhibition, merely hints at the herculean struggles involved in organizing an 800-year survey of a sprawling empire.../
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March 2, 2007
A Tycoon's Treasure Trove
Businessman Vladimir Semenikhin opens a private museum to show off his extensive art collection.
/By Marina Kamenev
Moscow construction magnates aren't usually known as great supporters of the arts. But Vladimir Semenikhin, owner of the construction company Stroiteks, took a step toward changing that reputation last week when he opened Russia's first privately owned exhibition space for contemporary art
The two-story exhibition space on Ulitsa Kuznetsky Most is now open to the public. Named the Yekaterina Cultural Foundation after the nonprofit that Semenikhin started with his wife in 2002, it will show works from their extensive collection of more than 500 pieces, along with projects organized with museums and other collectors...../
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February 20, 2007
Moscow Magnate Unveils Exhibition Space for 20th-Century Art
/By John Varoli
Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) - The Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, a Moscow-based organization headed by Vladimir Semenikhin, the owner of construction company Stroyteks, opens Russia's first private contemporary-art exhibition hall this evening.
The first show, "Movement, Evolution and Art",' will be accessible to the public tomorrow and features 80 pieces from Semenikhin's collection of works since 1916 by artists such as Erik Bulatov, Alexander Kosolapov, Lidia Masterkova, Vladimir Dubosarsky, Alexander Vinogradov and Oleg Kulik.../
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September 22, 2006
Escape Artist
/He longed for freedom in the Soviet era, then left for the West in the 1990s. Now, painter Erik Bulatov comes home with a major retrospective.
All his younger life, Erik Bulatov dreamed of escape. He fantasized about a breathless freedom from communism, and from the restraints of the material world itself: He wanted to soar on ideas through a yawning azure sky..../
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January 28, 2005
Shock Value.
Rebellious artworks go back on display, 78 years on.
/The Knave of Diamonds -- a colorful, controversial group of painters who caused an artistic sensation in pre-Revolutionary Russia - is back. More than 120 paintings by members of the groundbreaking movement will go on display at the New Tretyakov Gallery on Wednesday in the first major exhibition of their work in Moscow since 1927..../
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#8, 2005
The Jack of Diamonds: Russian Fauvists at the New Tretyakov
/The ongoing Jack or Knave of Diamonds exhibition (Bubnovy Valet in Russian) at the New Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val continues to pull in the crowds. I queued for forty minutes to fight my way through a mixed throng of bemused, startled and keen visitors to see the work of this group of Russian fauvists from the early part of the twentieth century. Was it worth it? I think so, as they do form a coherent group at the outset and it is enlightening to see them alongside works by Matisse from whom they no doubt took inspiration..../
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April 7, 2004
ARTS Les peintres russes du «Valet de Carreau» rassemblés pour la première fois à Monaco Les couleurs de l'anticonformisme.
/La couleur rouge pour la force, le personnage du valet pour la jeunesse: a Moscou, l'hiver 1910, la premiere exposition du «Valet de Carreau» avait provoqué le scandale. Le tableau-enseigne de la manifestation, un double autoportrait, représentait les peintres Machkov et Kontchalovski, presque nus, en slips vert et violet, tels des athletes. Les couleurs vives des toiles exposées par Larionov, Gontcharova, Kontchalovsky, Machkov, Lentoulov, Falk, Kouprine et les autres s'affichaient comme une victoire contre les points de vue esthétiques banals et les gouts petits-bourgeois.../
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March, 2004
Les peintres russes.
/L'exposition présentée du 12 mars au
12 avril Quai Antoine 1er, a Monaco, offre
pour la premiere fois au public occidental
l'occasion de découvrir les uvres fortes
d'une association d'artistes créée a
Moscou dans les années 191o,
le Valet de Carreau.
La peinture de ces artistes, bien que
typiquement moscovite, montre aussi des
influences étrangeres et plus
particulierement françaises.../
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March, 2004
Les peintres russes du VALET DE CARREAU.
/Premier point a éclaircir. Pourquoi cette appellation ludique? Parce que selon Jean-Claude Marcadé, historien d'art: "ce groupe se voulait le représentant de la jeunesse vigoureuse, de l'affirmation de soi, d'une culture corporelle incarnée et sensuelle et d'une certaine marginalité un peu louche." Quatre criteres qui feront de cette avant-garde russe imprégnée de Cézanne et des fauves, le point d'ancrage de la peinture moscovite au début du XXe siecle.../
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№ 367, March 15, 2004
/La Fondation Ekaterina -en collaboration
avec la direction des Affaires culturelles de la principauté,
le Centre d'Etat des musées et expositions «Rosizo» du ministere
de la Culture de la Fédération de Russie- présente quatre-vingts
ouvres de peintres ayant appartenu a l'association «Le Valet de
Carreau» : Kontchalovsky, Lentoulov, Machkov, Kouprine, Falk,
Tatline, Larionov, Gontcharova notamment.../
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March 18/24, 2004
Le Valet de Carreau, un volcan éphémere.
/La fondation Ekaterina jette un coup de projecteur sur le «Valet de
Carreau», association de peintres russes du début du XXéme
siècle. Longtemps restés dans l'ombre des avant-gardistes, ces
artistes figuratifs héritiers de Cézanne retrouvent la lumière
jusqu'au 12 avril à Monaco.../
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