We are introducing the new film program AMFEST ART&ARTISTS – documentaries about artists who have changed the cultural landscape over the past 150 years. Film screenings start in mid-October and are be held in more than 40 cities in Russia. These are films about star creators – and about people who have pushed the boundaries of the familiar. Among the heroes of the project are the Dadaist Marcel Duchamp, whose idea of the ready-made took over the world, and Roy Lichtenstein with his comic paintings. All the films are dedicated to visionaries who defined the art vectors of the future. Without the innovative photographs of galloping horses taken in the 1870s by Edward Muybridge, there would be no cinema (Gary Oldman will talk about this – as a collector of these unique photographs). The artistic experiments of Eva Hesse carried out in the 1960s – installations and sculptures from “garbage” materials – are hyper-relevant today. A special link in the program is two films about the creative dynasty of the Wyeths: Andrew, the author of the masterpiece "Christina's World" from the MoMA collection in New York, and his son Jamie, the portraitist of Kennedy and Nureyev. There is also a film in the program that poses a pressing question: will the profession of art critic survive or it'is "Out of the Picture"?..
Why drawing portraits today is not a disgrace
Artist Nikolai Ryndin talks about the genre of artistic portraiture and its relevance today, compares the Russian and foreign art scenes and shares his opinion on what allows Jamie Wyeth to remain an original artist in the United States despite belonging to a famous creative family.
"One's Own is Another's": Plagiarism as an Artistic Device in Contemporary Art
A lecture by the editor-in-chief of The Art Newspaper Russia, art historian and art critic Milena Orlova about Roy Lichtenstein and the rethinking of reproductions.
"IS ART CRITICISM ALIVE IN RUSSIA?": public talk by ZELFIRA TREGULOVA and MILENA ORLOVA
A public talk about art in our lives and the current role of art critics was held with the participation of the editor-in-chief of The Art Newspaper Russia Milena Orlova and art critic, curator of international museum exhibition projects Zelfira Tregulova. The moderator of the meeting was art critic Ivan Antonov.
"Marcel Duchamp is a grand troll!"
Public talk by NIKOLAY RYNDIN (Art Obstrel) with the audience at the film screening. Why read artists' memoirs? What do Malevich and Duchamp have in common? How did Duchamp earn his living? What is the essence of the ready-made?
Andrew Wyeth's Magical Realism: Lecture by Kirill Svetlyakov
Kirill Svetlyakov, art critic, chief specialist in contemporary art at the State Tretyakov Gallery, presented the premiere on the big screen of the film “Wyeth” from the AMFEST ART&ARTISTS film program about one of the most famous and at the same time mysterious American artists of the 20th century.
Robert Irwin: Invisible Beauty
The art movement of “light and space” and the context in the US art of the 60s-70s, the death of painting, installation as a “headache” for curators, the involvement and imbalance of the viewer - this and much more in the lecture by Svetlana Makeeva, a researcher of the history and theory of installation and Western contemporary art
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HAL: Introducing a hero who needs no introduction
There is something funny in the fact that the annotations of the film about Hal Ashby are forced to present their hero through the figure of Quentin Tarantino. Dear modern viewer, they say, the works of this author are included in the personal top of that very director of "Pulp Fiction" and "Kill Bill"...
Creators Who Changed the World: Who is to Watch at Amfest Art&Artists
The updated Amfest Art&Artists film program will be held in more than 40 cities in Russia. The focus is on outstanding creators who have changed the cultural landscape over the past 150 years.
Find out what to watch and where.
Calibrating Vision: A Guide to Amfest's Art&Artists Program
The big screen will show stories of pioneers of contemporary art working in various forms - photography, abstract painting, radical installations and land art. The show started on October 15 and will be held in different cities of Russia.
12 Films About American Art Included in AMFEST Art&Artists Program
In addition to film screenings, there will be public talks s with art historians, artists and critics. Among them are Tamara Vekhova and Nikita Slinkin, the chief specialist in contemporary art at the State Tretyakov Gallery Kirill Svetlyakov, artist and author of the channel about art "Art Obstrel" Nikolay Ryndin, cultural scientist Konstantin Dudakov-Kashuro and many others.
