Modern Art and the Artist’s Identity: The 24th Special Alpatov Readings in Honor of the Jubilee of the President of the Russian Academy of Arts Zurab Tsereteli

The Russian Academy of Arts, the Academy’s Department of Art History and Art Criticism, Research Institute of Theory and History of  Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts invite you to attend “Modern Art and the Artist’s Identity” Conference (the 24th  Special Alpatov Readings) in honor of the 80th Jubilee of the People’s Artist of the USSR and Russia, President of the Russian Academy of Arts, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Zurab Tsereteli, that will take place in Tsereteli Art Gallery (19 Prechistenka street, Moscow) on February 18, 2014 at 11.00 am.    

THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM

February 18, 2014 – Tuesday
(Apple Hall, Tsereteli Art Gallery)

11.00 am – Morning Session
Dmitry Shvidkovsky, Vice-President of the Russian academy of Arts
Welcoming address

Dmitry Shvidkovsky, Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Arts
Zurab Tsereteli in the History of the 20-21st Century World Art

Victor Vanslov, Member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts
Small Forms in Zurab Tsereteli’s Creative Work

Andrey Zolotov, Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Arts
Zurab Tsereteli – the Truth of Relations

Oleg Krivtsun, Member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts
The World Picture in Zurab Tsereteli’s Creative Work

Liudmila Kazakova, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts
Decorativeness as an Aesthetic Principle of Zurab Tsereteli’s Creative Work

Olga Kalugina, Doctor of Art History
Monumental and Decorative Plastic Art of Zurab Tsereteli in Georgia

Elena Borovskaya, Doctor of Art History
Solo Show of Works by Zurab Tsereteli in the State Russian Museum. Impressions and Resonance

02.30 pm – Coffee break

03.00 pm – Afternoon Session

Tatyana Kochemasova, Member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts  
Graphic Art of Zurab Tsereteli: On Some Experience of the Visualization of the Invisible

Lubov Shirshova, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts
Zurab Tsereteli: “When the Country Is Reviving Churches …”

Nadezhda Mukhina, Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts
Ariadne’s Thread. On the Issue of the Perception of Zurab Tsereteli’s Creative Work (About the Book of Ariadne Sokolova)

Olga Turchina, Art Historian
Interactive Situation in the Open Space of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (25 Petrovka street, Moscow)

Petr Baranov, Art Historian
Synthetic Method of Zurab Tsereteli as a Distinctive Feature of the Creative Dialogue with Classics of Modernism





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