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Zabludowicz Collection Curator Paul Luckraft and I headed to Moscow to visit our show ‘You Are Looking at Something That Never Occurred’ at the Multimedia Art Museum (MAMM). Before touring to Russia the photography show premiered at our London gallery in 2017
On the first night we were presented with photographs by Tim Parchikov
Wonderful and weird drawings by Pavel Pepperstein, with his muse Xenia Dranysh…
...who presented later in the evening one of her silk scarves to Olga Sviblova and she was thrilled
Dmitry Gutov showed us his older designs and wallpapers
I also had the chance to meet the wonderful Evgeny Svyatsky who is part of AES+F whom I admire so much
MAMM Curator Olga Sviblova and her assistant Anna Zaitcheva had hung the show to perfection. Wolfgang Tillman’s installation was a victory for Olga as she had never had the opportunity to show his work in Moscow before
Wolfgang’s 31 part ‘Berlin installation 1995-2000’, which I received for my 40th Birthday, was hung in its entity and I was thrilled!
The show features some wonderful artists with each given their own space to shine and project an individual experience to the audience. Older artist Richard Prince’s ‘Untitled (four women looking in the same direction)’, 1977
To younger artists like Anne Collier
Our friends Fatima and Essi Maleki (The Ambassadress of Arts) and their friend from Georgia joined us for the opening
Poju and Essi tried to get in some wood chopping time during the show!
I was happy to display the work of the younger artists, Lucas Blalock amongst many more
On the top floor of MAMM was a wonderful show by Jim Dine - Olga had the opportunity to help Pompidou acquire three major works for the museum
Then we headed off to dinner lead by Olga and kindly hosted by Natasha and Igor Tsukanov. We were wined and dined in mini state banquet style in the company of Russia’s Minister of Culture. I wish we had such important dinner guests in the UK, maybe the Mayor of Camden will come to visit us one day, Boris Johnson did
Bernard Blistène, Pompidou Director, and I were dining in state fashion with Olga till the wee hours of the morning
The next day we had time to visit Chief Curator Kate Fowle at Garage and meet Curator Iaroslav Volovod whose show on garments called ‘The Fabric of Felicity’ is built around the silk routes and production cycles of raw materials, textiles and ready to wear garments
I admired this very sad work by Kader Attia called ‘La Mer Morte (The Dead Sea)’. I will always remember our experience in Moscow
