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Russian Pavilion at Venice Art Biennale opened on Wednesday, May 8, TASS reports. It is dedicated to the largest Russian museum - the Saint Petersburg Hermitage.
According to Semyon Mikhailovsky, curator of the pavilion of our country, this does not mean that the exhibition will include masterpieces from the Hermitage collection. Instead, guests will see major works inspired by the theme of the great museum. Modern artists worked on them. Mikhailovsky added that the exhibition turned out to be intriguing.
In the Russian pavilion, the public will meet with the installations of the artist Alexander Shishkin-Hokusai and director Alexander Sokurov. And at the entrance, visitors will be greeted by the casts of the Atlanteans who adorn the portico in front of the entrance to the New Hermitage on Millionnaya Street.
The work of the team of Alexander Sokurov, located in the upper halls, is dedicated to the famous Prodigal Son by Rembrandt. It combines documentary and animation, painting and sculpture. Scenes of paintings by old masters were used for it.
The work of Alexander Shishkin-Hokusai called Flemish School is located in the lower hall. It is a reference to the images of three Flemish artists and one Dutch. By the way, the real name of the artist is Alexander Shishkin. His pseudonym is associated with the direction of creativity, in which he connects the mythology of two artists - landscape painter Ivan Shishkin and Japanese master Katsushika Hokusai.
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts also presented the project at Biennale. It is dedicated to Tintoretto.
As Russkiy Mir reported, Venice Biennale is an international art exhibition, which is held once every two years. This year it will be 58th in a row. Biennale opens in spring, works all summer and almost all autumn in many sites of the ancient Italian city.
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