A Square Meter – Its Own Space: the First Russian Triennale of Modern Tapestry in Tsaritsyno
On show in Tsaritsyno Museum-Preserve are 350 tapestries by 250 artists from 50 cities. The project has been organized by the Culture Department of the City of Moscow, the Russian Academy of Arts, Association of Artists of Decorative Arts of the Moscow Union of Artists, S. Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts, the Artists’ Union of Russia and is aimed at showing the development of contemporary art of tapestry.
The initiator of this large-scale project is Tsaritsyno Museum-Preserve which houses the richest in Russia collection of tapestries by Russian masters of the second half of the 20th century. Along with tapestries produced in traditional techniques, the exhibition highlights innovative works. Of major interest are the so called tapisseries - experimental works with the use of unusual for tapestry weaving materials and techniques such as glass, metal, wood, ceramics, photographs, 3D art-objects and installations.
The program of the Triennale also includes an exhibition of tapestries by A. Madekin and E. Nemirovskaya in the exhibition halls of the Moscow Department of the Artists’ Union of Russia (Begovaya street, Moscow) and a research conference.
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