Classics of Contemporary Art

Zaretskaya Nina
2002

“TV Gallery” has been working on the series of films about the artists for about ten years. We happened to collect very interesting materials – interviews with the artists, comments of art critics, recollections of friends and brothers-in arms, video materials of the exhibitions; also, we gathered a lot of newsreel on this theme. During the last years we issued two documentaries – “Wings of Freedom, or One Collection’ s Stories”, 1996, and “From Gulag to Glasnost. The Art of Resistance”, 2001 – a cycle of the programs about nonconformist artists, “Portraits of the Artists”, 2001, which were successfully shown on “Kultura” TV Channel.
Now Art Media Center “TV Gallery” would like to call your attention to a cycle of ten TV programs under the general name “Classics of Contemporary Art”, presenting the portraits of distinguished artists from different countries, our contemporaries, whose names became the common property of history in their lives. They are our fellow countrymen and foreign artists as well – Dmitri Alexandrovich Prigov, Franscisco Infante, Simon Faibisovich, Victor Pivovarov, Grisha Bruskin, Marlen Schpindler, Dennis Oppenheim, Earl Brown, Morton Subotnick, Nancy Spero. All of them are artists, though some names are connected with achievements either in poetry or in music. Their works prima facie seem unusual, but they are always extremely interesting and many-sided. Each of them demonstrates an unusual view on life in his pretty unusual works, be it painting, sculpture, literature, music, photography.

The works of every hero of ours are exhibited in prestigious world galleries and kept in the most famous world museums. Unfortunately, in our country their works are known to a very narrow circle of experts, they are practically not available to the wide audience. So far our television has not had the programs dedicated to the works of the artists who happened to enter the world culture annals.

The programs will be shown on «Kultura» TV channel twice a month at 17.05 on Wednesday. First broadcast on September 4 was dedicated to Dmitry Alexandrovich Prigov. The next one on September 18 told about Marlen Schpindler. 3rd broadcast on October 2 told about Victor Pivovarov.

Author, show-host and producer of the cycle - Nina Zaretskaya

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