The Pushkin Museum will start collecting music

In the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin began to form a collection of works by contemporary composers. This was announced on Tuesday, February 8, by the director of the Pushkin Museum Marina Loshak at a press conference on the announcement of musical plans for 2022.

According to the director, the collection will include works related to the museum and its programs.

For the museum, this is an unusual and at the same time completely logical move, I am sure the candidate of art history, columnist for Izvestia Sergei Uvarov. The expert noted that the Pushkin Museum has been actively building a collection of media art for several years now.

“Earlier it was video art, but it is logical to extend it (the collection. – Izvestia) to music as well. Moreover, music often becomes an important part of art projects: we can recall the exquisite noise accompaniment of the Raphael exhibition at the Pushkin Museum and the works that sounded in the Pushkin Museum’s choreographic film “Slepok”. In addition, there is an obvious trend towards the inclusion of sound works in the orbit of contemporary art: suffice it to mention the victory of sound artist Sergei Filatov at the Innovation 2021 award held by the Pushkin Museum. So for the museum, this is really a logical and correct expansion of the collection, and for composers and sound artists, it is an additional chance to preserve their creativity in eternity,” Uvarov emphasized.

On December 13, it was reported that in November 2022, an exhibition of the Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo and his Mannerist contemporaries would open at the Pushkin Museum.

Arcimboldo is widely known for his portraits, in which the faces of the models are “composed” of vegetables, fruits and berries. Twenty of his paintings have survived to this day. None of them are in Russian collections.