Assemblage, Object, Installation

The Russian Museum continues to acquaint its visitors with various types and movements of contemporary art. This large-scale and innovative exhibition in the Marble Palace is aimed at showing the public such art forms as assemblage, object and installation that appeared and actively developed in the 20th century. Once shocking with their novelty and peculiar nature, now they are no longer perceived as a “slap to the face of public taste” but occupy a firm place on the contemporary art scene.

The curator’s goal is not academic but didactic: using collection of the Russian Museum, along with some other works from individual artists and galleries, they strive to explain to the audience what is the specifics of assemblage, object and installation, why artists needed entirely non-artistic materials, actual objects and even an expansion into real space for their artistic expression. The exhibition’s curators show the assemblage and installations in a general way, while they significantly differentiate the object to demonstrate why artists use things to create artworks, according to what principles they arrange them, what goals they pursue, what emphasis they place and what new ideas they implement.

The exhibition includes works by MYTH artists Vadim Mikhailov and Alina Glazoun.

Photo: Anastasia Dargis