Incorporeity. In memory of Anatoly Kulakov
ERMOLAEVSKY LANE 17
About the exhibition
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art is proud to present a new exhibition project Incorporeity. In Memory of Anatoly Kulakov, centred on the problem of the illusory nature of the object world. The conception is based on the dialogue between man and “nature morte”.
Anatoly Kulakov created photographic prints by overlapping negatives. Also, he experimented with printing techniques. The results of his forty-year search were complex compositions: the images of ordinary objects transformed and revealed from new sides, manifesting themselves and disappearing. The incorporeity of the objects in the exhibition is emblematic. It relates to the physical absence of the artist, whose works keep the memory.
The issue of transparency is addressed in the series of crystal and glass objects by Ivan Machnev and Sergei Goryaev. Translucent objects merely denote the object. At the same time, due to the elusiveness and form fluidity, emphasise the sense of incorporeity.
The exhibition features more than 60 works, including photographs and collage by Anatoly Kulakov, as well as ceramic and glass objects by other artists from the MMOMA collection: Olga Pobedova, Ivan Machnev, Sergey Goryaev and Maria Krasilnikova.
About the artist
Anatoly Kulakov (1939 — 2012) was an artist, photographer and interior designer. Member of the Russian Union of Art Photographers (since 2002). In 1961 he graduated from the Art School in Nizhny Tagil, majoring in Artistic Processing of Metal. In 1968 he graduated from the Leningrad Vera Mukhina Higher School of Art and Design (now Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design). He worked effortlessly with all kinds of materials, experimented, exploring the potential of glass, fabric, plastic and paper. He participated in the group exhibitions EXPO-74 (1974), the first exhibition The Art of Photography (1984), Time and People, Soviet Photo — 60 Years (1988), My Moscow Region, Russia — Bulgaria and others. His solo exhibitions were held in Protvino, Troitsk, Krasnogorsk, Moscow, Serpukhov, Pushchino, Kimry, Minusinsk and Leningrad. Anatoly Kulakov's works are in the collections of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, USA), the Museum of Moscow, the Russian Museum of Photography (Moscow), the Museum of Organic Culture (Kolomna, Moscow region), as well as in private collections in Germany, France, Poland, the USA and other countries.
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Images
1. Anatoly Kulakov. Untitled. Late 1970s – early 1980s. Courtesy of the author’s heirs.
2. Anatoly Kulakov. From the Sklo series. 1979. Courtesy of the author’s heirs.
3. Anatoly Kulakov. From the Sklo series. 1985. Courtesy of the author’s heirs.
4. Anatoly Kulakov. Untitled. 1990. Courtesy of the author’s heirs.
5. Anatoly Kulakov. From the Sklo series. 1977. Courtesy of the author’s heirs.
6. Anatoly Kulakov. From the Sklo series. Late 1970s – early 1980s. Courtesy of the author's heirs.
7. Anatoly Kulakov. From the Sklo series. 1979. Courtesy of the author's heirs.
8. Anatoly Kulakov. From the Sklo series. 1975-1980. From the collection of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
