Book presentation. The catalogue for Gothic Style during the Enlightenment. The Anniversary of Vasily Bazhenov

Date

Schedule

17:00–18:30

Place

Garage Screen summer cinema

DESCRIPTION

The presentation of the bilingual catalogue Gothic Style during the Enlightenment. The Anniversary of Vasily Bazhenov, published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, will take place on Saturday, May 20, from 17:00 to 18:00 at Garage’s new open-air cinema on Garage Square.

With just under 1,000 pages, the catalogue contains articles on Russian ‘Gothic’ architecture in the context of the European tradition, complete with illustrations and reproductions of rare documents, as well as a detailed analysis of the seven sections of the exhibition (Russian Gothic, The Architect, The Empress, Tournament, Propylaea, Cathedral, and Freemason’s Study) and Vasily Bazhenov’s architecture.

The authors of the book and exhibition curators will discuss the architecture of the Enlightenment and the phenomenon of ‘Gothic taste’.

PARTICIPANTS

Elizaveta Likhacheva is an art historian specializing in Italian architecture of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, director of Schusev State Museum of Architecture. She reads lectures in art theory and history in Russia and abroad.

Anna Korndorf (PhD in Art History) is a senior researcher at the State Institute for Art Studies, and the academic secretary at IN ARTIBUS Foundation. She is the author of many studies and publications on the ephemeral architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries. She is an expert in theatre architecture and set design of Baroque and the Enlightenment.

Stéphane Gessler is an art historian at Paris-Sorbonne University, specializing in Slavic art, Russian history and civilization. He has studied Russian architecture and urban planning of different centuries and wrote a Master’s dissertation on the history of Soviet garden city movement. He has also curated exhibitions and has founded the association of young curators Collectif Marcel. In 2017, Collectif Marcel had its third exhibition with the alumni of Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Sergey Khachaturov (doctoral candidate in Art History) is an art critic, historian and theoretician, lecturer in Russian Art History at the Lomonosov Moscow State University and The Rodchenko Art School. He has over a thousand articles on art, architecture, contemporary culture, music and theater published in art journals. He is a recipient of the Russian Ministry of Culture Award and has been nominated for Innovation Contemporary Art Prize.

Tatyana Dudina is an art historian, head of Research at the Collection of The Architecture and Graphic Arts of the 18th and 19th centuries of Schusev State Museum of Architecture. She has written of the architecture and history of Moscow.

how to take part

Free admission with advance registration

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