🗓️June 17-21, 2016
SERGEY KURYOKHIN MUSEUM
📍93 Sredniy Prospekt V.O., St. Petersburg 199106 Russia
◆The Exhibition “Prorotype #1” with CYLAND’s Installation◆
Sergey Kuryokhin Centre for Contemporary Art opened an exhibition featuring “Made in Ancient Greece” installation by Anna Frants and CYLAND MediaArtLab. “Sergey Kuryokhin Museum. Prototype #1” exhibition includes works from the Centre’s future collection of contemporary art. On display will be the works of more than sixty contemporary artists living in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev, London, and New York. Bringing together all kinds of art, the exhibition aims at recreating the spirit of “Popular Mechanics” with its unpredictable spontaneous and synthetic character.
The exhibition features rare documentary photographs from the 1970s to 1990s, showcasing the Leningrad and Moscow rock scenes, performances by Sergey Kuryokhin and his Pop Mechanics orchestra, and rare archival materials, posters, and records donated to the museum by the composer’s wife and son, Anastasia and Fyodor Kuryokhin. Also included are Andy Warhol’s signed Campbell’s tomato soup can — a gift to Kuryokhin from the American pop artist — a work by German artist Rebecca Horn (for whose film Kuryokhin composed the music), and other rock culture artifacts, such as the license plate from Frank Zappa’s car, which he gave to the composer.
As part of the Sergey Kuryokhin Museum. Prototype #1 exhibition, several theater premieres will take place, along with academic and practical lecture courses in the field of contemporary art.
