Time: Category of Contemplation

#France

Évariste Vital Luminais

The Sons of Clovis II (1880)

French media artist and director Clément Cogitore shares his impressions of the painting, referring to a rare subject from the medieval history of France

#Russia

Petrarca – a great arcadian recluse

Ekaterina Igoshina, head of the Research Library of The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, shares experiences of an exemplary recluse

#Russia

Joseph Beuys

And in us ... around us ... blockage (1965)

Danila Bulatov, researcher at The Pushkin Museum and specialist on post-war German art, on meeting with oneself and entering “super-time” and “anti-space”

#Russia

Cristina Lucas

Clockwise (2016)

Alisa Prudnikova, Commissioner of the Ural Industrial Biennale, tells how it is important to be tête-à-tête with art

#Russia

On breaking into a parallel reality in the art of Jeremy Shaw

Alexander Burenkov, curator of the Cosmoscow Foundation for Contemporary Art, on a balance of sensual and rational in the world of tomorrow

#Russia

Claude Monet

Rouen Cathedral. Noon (The Portal and the Alban Tower) (1893–1894)

Irene Lebelle shares how the artworks of the leading Impressionist can teach focused contemplation

#Russia

Nelo Akamatsu

Chijikinkutsu (2013–2019)

Do you want to know what deep media art is (what? yes!), Dmitry Bulatov, a researcher in the field of art & science, will not only tell you about that but show it, as well

#Greece

Giovanni Battista Lusieri

The Parthenon from the Northwest (1802),

Nikolaos Gyzis

Archangel, study for the Foundation of the Faith (1894–1895),

Nikolaos Tombazis

Victory (Nike) of Panionios (1956)

Polina Kosmadaki, curator of the Benaki Museum, Athens, tells about the artworks depicting different perception of time

#USA

On rigour in the art and life of McArthur Binion

Anastasia Karpova Tinari, director of Chicago / New York gallery Gray, shares her experience of encounter with an American artist and real connoisseur of time McArthur Binion

#Russia

Bernardo Strozzi

Vanitas (Old Coquette) (circa 1637)

Anna Gor, director of National Center for Contemporary Art – Nizhny Novgorod, tells about the way the art teaches to pay time and attention to oneself

#Austria

Félix González-Torres

Untitled (Perfect Lovers) (1991)

Curator of Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Jasper Sharp on what lies behind a tick of the clock and on a harmony based on differences

#Belgium

Jan Fabre

Facing time

Curator Joanna de Vos reveals Jan Fabre’s secret and shares intimate worlds of the artist

#Russia

Gustave Courbet

A Hut in the Mountains (circa 1874)

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts curator Anna Poznanskaya tells how the main rebel of the French Realism self-isolated in the Swiss Alps

#Russia

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

Flight into Egypt (1675)

Svetlana Zagorskaya, deputy head of the Old Masters Department of The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, on the search for harmony in the paintings of the old masters