Moscow City Government
Moscow City Department of Culture
Russian Academy of Arts
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
present

Irina Nakhova

ROOMS

Dates: May 19 —  July 3, 2011
Opening: May 18, at 7pm

Venue: State Museum of Modern Art of the Russian Academy of Arts (10
Gogolevsky Boulevard)

Irina Nakhova - a special guest of the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary
Art

During the exhibition meeting with artist will be organized.

Irina Nakhova is considered to be an author of the first Russian “total
installations”. Her artistic career is inherently linked to the Moscow
Conceptualist circles. She has early recognized her mission as an artist.
She has defined the existence of art as a vital necessity. “Only the
bare-necessity approach to creating artworks made them living and full of
not-for-consumption energy”, the artist says. This “maximalist approach”
likens Nakhova’s art to the Russian avant-garde art of the 20 century.
Artworks by Irina Nakhova are in the museum and private collections in
France, Germany, UK, Italy, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and USA.

The large-scale retrospective show of Irina Nakhova will unite for the
first time her works of different genres, made in different techniques and
during different periods of her artistic career, starting from the late
1970s. It will help to reveal inseparable connection between her
paintings, installations and art objects, to “display non-singularity of
art objects in syncreticness of their vital motivation and necessity”. The
“Room No2” will be reconstructed in detail, including original drawings
and documentation of 1984.

An illustrated catalogue was published for the personal exhibition of
Irina Nakhova. Articles were written by Barbara Walli, Valentin Dyakonov,
Elena Petrovskaya, Irina Kulik, Kalliopi Minioudaki. The catalogue also
contains an article by Andrei Monastyrsky, which has been earlier
published in the catalogue for Nakhova’s exhibition “Stay with me” (XL
Gallery, 2002).

The current catalogue will present artworks, which help to throw light
upon the artist’s oeuvre, including those that are created in different
periods and are not exhibited in the show.


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