Exhibitions of contemporary Japanese art have been brought to Moscow before - to the Triumph Gallery, to Gary Tatintsyan, and to the Garage, which was opened by Yayoi Kusama's Theory of Infinity. But all these were expositions of a much smaller scale: until the fall of 2017, three large projects at the same time, panning Asian art as a whole, never took place here.

What are the features of this art? Yuko Hasegawa, curator of the 7th Moscow Biennale, Asian artists have a clear sense of time - which is why there are far more famous photographers and directors in Asia than, say, sculptors or painters. In addition, the Japanese concept of aesthetics is very horizontal. The art of Western Europe is quite strictly divided into “high” (living in museums) and “low” (relatively speaking, applied): extremely simplifying, the picture is to look at it, and the chair is to sit on it. Not so in Asia: both a painting and a chair can turn out to be equivalent art objects, and museums in the European sense appeared there relatively recently - in the last century.

At the same time, world art for Japanese artists is inseparable from European art proper, and this is very well illustrated by a recent exhibition at the Pushkin Museum. Japanese Mamyshev-Monroe, he not only dresses up as the stars of world pop culture, but also tries on the images of important European artists - thus trying to become part of the Western art canon. This is a very deep observation of the Eurocentricity of the modern world: in fact, the Europeans impose their history of art and how an art object should look like on everyone, and the main curators of the world have been trying for the last twenty years to come up with new formats to describe another, not similar to the Western, aesthetics.

As for Japanese art itself, it is impossible to understand it without taking into account several key points - what Takashi Murakami calls "kawaii" and "disaster". The tragic events of the last century have become part of the nation's sense of self and are reflected in all the works of contemporary artists, paradoxically superimposed on a light and funny "kawaii". However, in Japan, the influence is not so much of local pop culture - albeit quite powerful - as of American pop art that absorbed it: strictly speaking, Japanese art is now a mixture of traditional heritage, modern mass culture and just pop art.

Anna Savitskaya

Founder and editor of Artdependence Magazine

“Japanese art is now very relevant not only in Russia, but all over the world. Interest in him is spurred by exhibitions in large institutions (“Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave” at the British Museum), a tour of American museums “Infinity Room” by Yayoi Kusama, a future exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam about the influence of Japanese culture on the artist. An important role is played by the offer of works by Japanese authors at auctions. Recently, many publications have appeared on the topic of the colossal influence of Japan on the work of impressionist and post-impressionist artists, which also causes increased interest in this culture. Of course, the best time to buy any art is a quiet moment, when the demand and demand for a certain direction, period or artist either starts to subside or remains at a low level, but right now Japan is back in fashion.

7th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art

© CoAIxistence / Justine Emard adagp

Calling the Biennale an exclusively Japanese project, of course, would be wrong. A curator is sometimes much more embedded in the global world than an artist who prepares a product for the international market that refers to traditional culture. Only a few Japanese artists participate in the biennale - out of fifty actors there are only 6 of them, while Russians, for example, 10. high art (artists include designers Hussain Chalayan and Vicky Somers), the presence of modern pop culture (down to the sculpture of the duo "Aurora, Zander" depicting an Airbnb cleaner) and a deep love of tradition. In fact, the whole project is built on the opposition of “old” and “new” culture - although the metaphor of “forests” and “clouds” (the world of millennials with the total influence of the Internet and pop culture) turns out to be quite complicated so that an unprepared viewer can immediately think.

From the projects of the Japanese participants themselves, one can note the quiet and small fireworks of Sayaka Shimada, the dance with the robot of the Japanese star Mirai Moriyama and the bizarre works of the young artist Koji Nakazono, who became famous for his diploma exhibition throughout the country, and then suddenly disappeared in the ocean: seeming to Europeans primitive and flat , they contain abstract images, fantastic landscapes, references to modern technologies and, according to the curator, give rise to an almost religious feeling.

Yulia Muzykantskaya

President of the Moscow Biennale

“The choice of Yuko Hasegawa was not a political gesture, but rather the result of a selection of applicants. In autumn, the Expert Council selected 20 people, each of whom could contribute to the development of the project. As a result of preliminary negotiations, five expressed their readiness to make the main project of the biennale in a year - and Yuko Hasegawa was almost unanimously chosen from them: all members of the Expert Council were familiar with either her or her works.

The Biennale is an international project, and it would be wrong to look for regional specifics here. And the abundance of pop projects is connected with one of the tasks assigned to the curator. We wanted the Moscow Biennale to be of interest to a professional audience. In this year's Main Project, colleagues cannot help but be attracted by new works created especially for Moscow. At the same time, from the very beginning, we strived to attract ordinary viewers to the Biennale. We discussed this with the curator and Yuko Hasegawa agreed. Perhaps the combination of these strategies - targeting both a sophisticated audience and a mass consumer - is Ms. Hasegawa's creative method, which seeks to make this project interesting for everyone. The coincidence of the three Japanese projects in time and space cannot be explained by anything other than the smile of God.”

Takashi Murakami "There Will Be Gentle Rain"

© Takashi Murakami / Kaikai Kiki Co.

The main exhibition of the Garage Museum and, perhaps, the key Moscow exhibition of this year, continues the baton of Japanese art - with paintings, drawings and feature films by the country's most famous artist. Murakami, the popularizer, established for Europeans the main axes of coordinates by which one can define and analyze the national art of Japan. Attention to traditions, the absence of a typical European border between the “high”, museum, and “applied”, the experience of the traumatic XX century, the influence of mass culture and manga - these are the starting points for each of his works. The exhibition in its didacticism even resembles a school textbook: each aspect of Murakami's work is placed in a separate chapter, and its separate section is devoted to Murakami's curatorial project "Kid" (2005) - about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - which shows what others can be - fundamentally non-European - art and culture.

Ekaterina Inozemtseva

Project curator

“The situation with contemporary art in Japan is somewhat reminiscent of domestic realities: yes, in Japan the situation with the market and galleries is better, but since the 80s, Japanese buyers tend to purchase primarily Western modernism, and the government calls contemporary art something that is not see at the world biennale. However, unlike Russia, which does not have a clear artistic tradition, the Japanese tradition is clear and well articulated. On the one hand, there is an adapted Chinese tradition, there are works by Buddhist monks - they have their own museums, which are logically arranged and well visited. Murakami interprets and supplements the legacy of all these aesthetics with images of modern Japanese culture, for which he is vehemently reprimanded, but he, in turn, is angry with young artists for their inability to think independently.

Anton Belov

Director of the Garage Museum

“No one better than Murakami integrates the Japanese tradition into an international context. Throughout his career, the artist had a reputation as a rebel and violator of unwritten laws, who stole the national, turned it into consumer goods and sold it to the West. At the same time, Murakami is worried about the disproportionate development of Japanese art and promotes it by all possible means. He has a gallery that supports young artists and another that deals with ceramists and anime.

As for the coincidence of exhibitions in space and time, here our culture reacts to objective shifts in the political situation in relation to the Kuril Islands. In addition, Japan is actively involved in the competition with China for relations with Russia and is actively introducing its economy and culture into our reality.”

Keichi Tanaami "Land of Mirrors"

© Courtesy Gary Tatintsian Gallery and artist's studio

Both Murakami and Tanaami are contemporary Japanese artists, equally successful and famous in the West, in whose works pop culture imagery, traditional symbols and a tragic past are combined into post-expressionist and surreal kitsch. That is why they are so interesting to look at in a complex and compare with each other. The works of Murakami and Tanaami are very similar, but fundamentally different - and the difference lies primarily in the pop culture plots that they both recycle. For Murakami, this is a manga - one can say that he adapts Japanese culture for Europeans in a form that will be understandable to them: with flat mushrooms, as after Hiroshima, playing with traditional paintings, in the plane of which small fantastic characters suddenly appear. For Tanaami, the field of American pop culture is much more important, which he dissects to his own taste, mixing with Japanese: as a result, the viewer is bombarded with a huge thrash wave of popular images that we encounter every day - as opposed to sterile in its purity and impeccable in his form Murakami.

Olga Bakeeva

Gallery Director Gary Tatintsyan

“I think that certain cycles of market attention are to blame for the triple coincidence of exhibitions - as, for example, in the 2000s it was with Chinese art. Today, Japanese art is reaching the world level and the interest in the USA cannot be ignored: at the latest fairs - and above all Art Basel - there were many Japanese artists, and at the Venice Biennale in 2015, entire pavilions were opened with Japanese art (Chiharu Shiota) and oriental minimalists like Lee Woo Hwan is a Korean artist and leader of the Mono-Ha movement. Japanese art is interesting, first of all, by the way it historically combined Western influence and Eastern traditions, including in the works of Tanaami. Interestingly, this influence is mature: all modern stars started in the 60s - a time when there was no Internet, thanks to which today you can make the appropriation of culture much faster. And then the artists went to America to personally meet the titans of pop art.

Exhibition “4+1. From Hayao Miyazaki to Contemporary Japanese Artists"

© Hayao Miyazaki

As it became known quite recently, the gallery "On Solyanka" will also take part in the Japanese marathon - and in December will present the project "Exhibition" 4 + 1. From Hayao Miyazaki to Contemporary Japanese Artists”, where the cartoons of the famous animator Hayao Miyazaki will coexist with the works of contemporary Japanese artists. The entire space of the gallery will be divided into zones symbolizing water, air, earth, fire and the main element of Japanese philosophy - emptiness. Miyazaki will be in charge of all five elements, while young and “daring”, according to the curator, Japanese artists will help to talk about the theme of emptiness - mainly with their videos, as well as two sculptural and one kinetic works. The exhibition has three curators, and all of them are somehow connected with animation: Shari Santo, Johan Raipma and Katya Umnova.

Margarita Osepyan

Curator of the State Gallery "On Solyanka"

“We started preparing this project two years ago - and then, of course, we didn’t know about Garage’s plans. The focus of our winter exhibitions is traditionally focused on animation, and Miyazaki is a key figure for animation in the world, and, of course, we have long wanted to do his exhibition. And young authors help to set the right context - to show what is happening in Japanese multimedia art, where many artists use animation techniques.

Japanese artists are among the most advanced in the world. Therefore, with our next project, we will continue to talk about this topic: in September 2018, we will talk about the early Japanese performance practices of the 50s, which is especially interesting, given the fact that performance in Europe began to flourish a little later.

The reasons for the coincidence of Japanese exhibitions in time and space can only be explained by the general dynamics in the field of art, when a certain topic becomes interesting to many: Europe and America are now more interested in Islamic art - from Lebanon, Iran, Bahrain - and African art. And Russia is traditionally interested in the art of Japan, with which our country has always had friendly relations (this is some exaggeration: Russia fought with Japan in 1904-1905 and during World War II. - Note. ed.)».

Fedor Pavlov-Andreevich

Director of the State Gallery "On Solyanka"

“Solyankinsky winter exhibitions always flow from year to year, and this one, which began in December, will close only a couple of months later - which means that 2018 will have its full weight, which, if I understand correctly, is the Year of Japan in this country. In general, I started talking about this with Miyazaki back in 2014 - it's just that in Japan, formality and slowness are held in high esteem.

As for the theory of conspiracy, it must be borne in mind that in the late sixties, when the whole world was swept by a wave of student revolutions, there was no Internet and Facebook - and somehow, like this, they all, one by one and even simultaneously, took place - and in Paris, and in Mexico City, and in Sao Paulo, everywhere. And in the early 1970s, performance artists all over the world, from New York to Ljubljana, as if on cue, began to mutilate themselves - cut, choke, burn, shoot themselves and all that. Also, no one could tell them to do it! So we, without saying a word, received a heavenly telegram - and each made a Japanese exhibition.

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"Fashion Industry" is a priority industry platform for the regional project "St. Petersburg - the center of light industry and the fashion industry." The event traditionally enjoys high prestige in the industry. The key to such success is the business efficiency of the exhibition as a platform for b2b meetings, the interest of companies in expanding the geography of sales, and the effectiveness of professional dialogue. For representatives of retail chains, stores, wholesale companies and trading houses, all conditions have been created for negotiations with leading manufacturers of the industry. Daily shows of the collections of the exhibitors allow specialists to determine the fashion trends of the coming season and orient themselves in the range presented.

The effectiveness of the exhibition has already been assessed by regular participants: the Slavyanka garment factory (Russia, Pskov), the Blauz company (Belarus, Minsk), the Oval trading house (Belarus, Minsk), the KIARA collection (Belarus, Brest), the trading brand "Ricardo" (Turkey) and other companies. After a successful debut last autumn, the exclusive distributors of the Japanese knitting equipment company SHIMA SEIKI will once again demonstrate their best achievements.

There will also be new exhibitors. For the first time at the Fashion Industry exhibition, the Porfira company (Belarus, Minsk), the Blesk atelier boutique (Russia, St. Petersburg) will present their clothing collections. Men's suits will be demonstrated by the DAVION trademark from Portugal. Fabrics will be presented by URSUS (Russia), Etexba (Portugal). Also among the new participants: leather goods manufacturer "CONSILIO" (Poland), children's clothing brands "Saima" (Russia, St. Petersburg) and "mbimbo" (Belarus, Vitebsk).

The highlight of the exhibition is Economic Forum of the Fashion Industry, which takes place during the exhibition. The forum opens with a specialized conference “Production. Are we setting the rhythm or are we adjusting?”, Leading Roman Gerasimov is a well-known TV presenter, moderator, and business coach. Forum participants - heads of industrial and commercial enterprises, designers, designers and technologists, representatives of universities and the media - have a unique opportunity to receive the necessary information about the state of the fashion market from leading professionals and industry experts and discuss the most important issues of raw materials and import substitution, the competitiveness of domestic producers, state production support, mutually beneficial relations between the state and business.

Also in the program of the Economic Forum of the Fashion Industry - training seminars, trainings, master classes:

• Seminar “Fashion Trends. Key fashion trends for the FW18/19 season»(Conducted by Lyuba Popova)
• Training "5 effective tools in Internet marketing: how to competently attract, serve and retain customers in online sales" (Conducted by Irina Borodavko)
• Seminar Store management. The economics of a retail store during a crisis»(Conducted by Natalia Chinenova)
• Seminar «Future and Fashion: new technologies and consumers. How will the fashion business change?(Conducted by Maya Kuznetsova)

New names of the fashion industry are opening International Competition for young designers "Generation NEXT". Students and graduates of more than 20 specialized educational institutions participate in the creative competition. A professional jury will determine the winners and laureates in 3 areas: Suit, Textile, Graphic Design. The winners of Generation NEXT will receive tickets to the finals of the Contests held under the auspices of the National Academy of Fashion Industry. For the first time, the organizers of the exhibition invite light industry manufacturing companies to take part in the competition with the order of the target nomination. This is a unique opportunity to select a young specialist for your enterprise on the basis of a competition of projects according to your terms of reference.

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In mid-December, to be more precise, on the 14th, the State Gallery on Solyanka in Moscow will open the exhibition "4 + 1. From Hayao Miyazaki to Contemporary Japanese Artists", whose guests will be able to see the director-animator's sketches and cartoons, various artifacts, as well as works of contemporary Japanese artists.
One of the central themes in the animator's work is the concept of the relationship between man and nature. Muscovites will get acquainted with the worldview of Miyazaki through four natural elements - air, water, earth and fire, as well as a key element of the Japanese worldview - emptiness, - said the representatives of the gallery.

If you are not familiar with the work of Hayao Miyazaki, then until December 14 you still have time to feel love for his work. Where to begin? We asked the star heroes of the site about this: Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Marina Aleksandrova, Alena Doletskaya and other stars spoke about their favorite Miyazaki cartoons.

Marina Aleksandrova, actress(Marina, by the way, recently returned from Japan, where she was in the Miyazaki Museum)

"The Witch's Delivery Service".

Tatyana Lazareva, TV presenter

"Spirited Away".

Miyazaki has many famous works, but perhaps the most is Spirited Away. It was for this tape that the animator won the Oscar in 2003 in the Best Animated Film nomination. And that year there was an award at the Berlin Film Festival - the Golden Bear.

The film follows a 10-year-old Chihiro who moves into a new home. Only now it turns out that on the way to their destination, she and her parents find themselves in another world in which ghosts and monsters live. The girl's father and mother turn into pigs, and she herself is forced to work for the witch Yubabu. Returning to the human world will not be easy, but Chihiro will have to find a way to do it.

Frame from the film "Spirited Away"

Ingeborga Dapkunaite, actress

"Walking castle".

Alena Doletskaya, journalist

"Princess Mononoke".

Alexander Terekhov, designer

"The Witch's Delivery Service".

Howl's Moving Castle is another Miyazaki film that has made a lot of noise. In 2006, the tape was nominated for an Oscar, but another project received the statuette. However, no one will remember that cartoon now, but Howl's Moving Castle still hypnotizes the audience (from young to old!).

According to the synopsis for the film, 18-year-old Sophie was imprisoned in the body of an old woman by the labors of an evil witch. In search of someone who can disenchant her, she stumbles upon the castle of the powerful wizard Howl and his demon Calcifer. The latter made a deal with Howl a long time ago, but wants to cancel it. The girl and the demon decide to help each other get rid of evil spells...

Shot from the movie "Howl's Moving Castle"

Artem Korolev, TV presenter

"Ponyo Fish on the Cliff", "My Neighbor Totoro".

Tatyana Drubich, actress

"Ponyo fish on the cliff."

Ribbon "Ponyo Fish on the Cliff" is not just like the audience. This is a kind and beautiful story about a small curious fish, the daughter of a sorcerer and a sea goddess, who swims away from home to learn more about people's lives. During her "expedition", Ponyo gets stuck in a bank and ends up washed ashore, where she is found by 5-year-old Soosuke. The kids are so attached to each other that now Ponyo only dreams of becoming a man.

Shot from the film "Ponyo Fish on the Cliff"

P.S.: Hayao Miyazaki himself is a fan of the Soviet cartoon by Yuri Norshtein "Hedgehog in the Fog" =)

MoscowDiveShow is the largest exhibition of equipment, tourism and training for all "underwater" and "aquatic" people in Russia and Eastern Europe. The basis of the exhibition exposition is made up of four main underwater areas - diving, spearfishing, freediving and underwater photography.

Water activities - yachting, diving regattas, kiting, surfing, SUP and water tourism - are combined in the zone. Separately presented equipment and training for children and adolescents.

MoscowDiveShow 2020 will take place on February 6-9, 2020 in Moscow, at the Sokolniki Exhibition Center, pavilions 4 and 4.1. (Driving directions)

Leading manufacturers of diving equipment, diving hotels and safari yachts, travel companies, dive centers and dive clubs in Russia and the world, as well as private craftsmen, instructors and dive guides will prepare unique offers, promotions and special exhibition prices for professionals and beginners.

Detailed information for future exhibitors (analytics on MoscowDiveShow 2020, cost of stands, participation conditions) is collected here

Organizers: "Ultimate Depth" and "World of Spearfishing" magazines. You can book a stand on-line on the interactive plan of the exhibition.

Who and why go to the exhibition?

Beginners

MoscowDiveShow is the perfect place to plan your first steps into the underwater world. Take your time, make yourself comfortable in front of the main stage, watch films of underwater wonders and breathtaking underwater activities. Listen to interesting stories of speakers, ask your questions. Now you can go to the exhibition. Choose a club or instructor, discuss the details of the training, do not forget to bargain - this is an exhibition! Then look at something from inexpensive equipment, it makes no sense to take fancy and expensive equipment right away. A good option to buy something from the old collections at a big discount. Take everything home and return the next day to the exhibition again - continue watching interesting things on the stage, study the situation with tourism in Russia and the world and just chat with good people.

Advanced

Well, what do you, experienced sea (river, lake, etc.) wolves say? You yourself know what to do at the exhibition. Monitor prices for "equipment", meet the owners of diving centers and yachts (book the tour you like), take a look at the general state of affairs, wait for friends and sit with them over a cup of tea in the recreation, food and cultural program area. Do not forget to take a closer look at the zone - find out where it is better to unlearn to become a yacht captain or take lessons in managing kite .... visit the exhibition again the next day with friends - a reusable ticket!

family

Buy a small wetsuit for the kids and a trendy set for your loved one, talk to the kids' scuba instructors, pick up an idea for a diving trip, and get ready to dive with the whole family. Diving unites!

Where and how to buy tickets for the exhibition?

You can purchase tickets on the website in the "Tickets" section or at the box office of the exhibition. It is more profitable to buy in advance on the website - from November 1 to February 5 they will be sold significantly cheaper. For those who are going to visit the exhibition with the whole family, there is a special rate. The ticket is valid for all days of the exhibition.

Useful information for guests from the regions

For those who come to the capital on purpose, we will prepare accommodation offers. In the "Hotels" section you will see a list of hotels and hostels where a discount will be applied for MoscowDiveShow visitors.

MOSCOW, 29 November. /TASS/. The exhibition of Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki, which was supposed to open at the Solyanka Gallery on December 15, has been postponed to 2018, the press service of the Solyanka Gallery told TASS on Wednesday.

"Exhibition" 4+1. From Hayao Miyazaki to Contemporary Japanese Artists" is postponed to next year due to the director's busy schedule in preparing his new cartoon. The exact dates of the exhibition will be announced only in 2018," the museum's press service said.

Earlier it was reported that the project "4 + 1. From Hayao Miyazaki to contemporary Japanese artists" will combine the director's sketches and cartoons with the work of contemporary artists from Japan.

Hayao Miyazaki

First animated film director to win the Japan Academy Award for Best Film of the Year (Princess Mononoke, 1997). His film Spirited Away (2001) is regarded as one of the most iconic films of its era, receiving awards such as the Japanese Film Academy Award, the Golden Bear of the Berlin Film Festival in 2002, and the Oscar in 2003.

The main promoter of Miyazaki in the West, one of the founders of the Pixar studio, John Lasseter, calls him "one of the greatest figures in cinema of our time." He believes that Miyazaki's figure is even more important than Walt Disney in animation. And Akira Kurosawa included "My Neighbor Totoro" in his list of 100 most favorite films, explaining that "all the talent has gone from the film industry to anime."