Arch Moscow Light

Arch Moscow Light
Arch Moscow Light

Video: Arch Moscow Light

Video: Arch Moscow Light
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Several years ago it turned into a festival, and last year it grew to the title of the first Moscow Biennale of Architecture. Next year there will also be a biennale, and this year the non-profit program is subordinated to the ‘Next’ motto and the search for new names. The idea to alternate the Biennale with the architecture of the young belongs to Vlad Savinkin and Vladimir Kuzmin, and the curator of the program is Bart Goldhoorn, the founder of the Project Russia magazine and the permanent curator of the Arch of Moscow non-profit programs for three years in a row.

Of course, everyone was interested in what would become of Arch Moscow in our unpleasant crisis time. And I must admit - she looks, at least at first glance, good, even as if a little better than before. Like a woman who benefited from a diet. In recent years, the construction and other boom has forced the exhibition to some extent "swell", forcing meaningful expositions first into the basement, then on the street under the gallery, then somewhere else. This was seen as the expansion and expansion of the festival, but it was noticeable that the well-selling commercial areas did not leave room for others, those due to which Arch Moscow once (quite a long time ago) made its fame not only large and metropolitan, but meaningful and an art exhibition.

But now everything looks harmonious, as if the balance of exposures has returned to the interior of the CHA. Surprisingly, commercial stands are quite enough - not that few, but just right, and they are quite large and catchy. It is even more surprising that there seem to be a lot of architectural stands in the central commercial part on the second floor (that is, workshops that have bought space at the exhibition). In fact, of course, there are less of them, by about a third, but the main characters are in their places, and in the general balance they seem to occupy the same place as last year. Everything has become more rarefied, somewhat more spacious, but this is beneficial to the overall impression of the exhibition. She did not become poorer at all, but she became nobler. From the architects at the opening one could hear that Arch Moscow has become “easier”. Well, with this definition it is worth agreeing. The Central House of Artists has ceased to be crowded, exhibitions are arranged more freely, clearly and logically.

One of the most notable places, at the entrance to the second floor, is occupied by the exhibition of the architect of the year Sergei Skuratov. I must say that the exposition of the "architect of the year" is being arranged for the fourth time (before that there were Mikhail Khazanov, "Meganom", Sergei Kiselev), but all the time she got unsuccessful rooms - either on the steps or in the farthest hall on the third floor. And the exhibition of Sergei Skuratov meets the audience at the entrance to the second, main floor of the Central House of Artists. It is immediately clear who exactly is the architect of the year here.

In addition, the exhibition organizes the space very well - here Sergey Skuratov definitely worked as an architect. The entrance is greeted by a wide and asymmetrical perspective portal with a laconic inscription. He decorates the entrance to a large and high plasterboard enclosure - an exhibition "house". Inside - projects, on the outer walls - photos of realizations. In Sergei Skuratov's own words, projects are what needs to be protected, so they are inside, and buildings are things that have already taken place, the property of critics, photographers and townspeople, so they are outside. To this we can add that the projects are black and white, the buildings are colored, although not quite, in a somewhat restrained corrected color. Everything is very large, spacious, noticeable and elegant at the same time. A small catalog has been released for the exhibition (predecessors did not) with a foreword by Bart Goldhoorn, in a word, everything is done as expected. You can even say that Sergei Skuratov took the title of Architect of the Year and his exhibition especially seriously. However, his expositions at Arch Moscow have been noticeable before, although they were not so huge.

The central crossroads among the stands of architectural workshops are mostly occupied by famous heroes who are constantly exhibited here: Savinkin & Kuzmin, this time with something similar to an exhibition of glass sculptures, however, charming; Timur Bashkaev, as always with a large and complex model, this time made of metal, suspended by a fishing line from the ceiling; and "Meganom" with the layout of the Taganka theater, orange, glowing, beautiful - this is probably the most noticeable layout on the "Arch Moscow", Meganom's people are generally masters of layouts. “Arkhbaby” brought three pairs of colored female legs; MAO - large posters and small video screens.

This year the Arch of Moscow program includes two large “foreign days” and, accordingly, two large expositions - Italy and Denmark. Italy Day is scheduled for Thursday (May 28) and features five workshops by Italian architects and restorers. Among them are well-known: Benjamino Servino, Paolo Desideri and Massimo Carmassi, and there are those who are building in Russia (Dante Benini, author of Global Town in the Nizhny Novgorod region). A large-scale exhibition in Italy deserves to be called a "pavilion"; it occupies a wide "corridor" along the second floor. The exhibit is spectacular and expensive, but the fact that it is intended primarily to advertise the Italian stone, the samples of which are hung on the walls, gives it the resemblance to a very large commercial stand. However, this is probably the case, only the stand represents not a company, but a country.

On the other hand, Denmark's exhibitions on the third floor look quite conceptual and “non-commercial”. The first - Instants of architecture (Moments of architecture) - came to replace the previously expressed idea of the organizers of "Arch of Moscow". They were going to bring an exhibition of the Danish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale (dedicated to ecology) to Moscow. But this did not happen, and another exhibition on Sustainable Architecture came. It shows the results of the work of 10 architectural firms on a given topic. The exhibition is Danish-French, at first it was shown in Paris, then in Prague, now in Moscow. According to the organizers, in each city it looks a little different, but the main "bearing" element everywhere is a fruit box. In Moscow, a pleasantly smelling long room has been built from these boxes, inside of which there is a long table, on it are models, on the walls are pictures of projects. Markers on the walls with felt-tip pens. Everything is cute and charming, but if you are serious, you need to delve into the content, reading thick books tied with ropes to drawers.

The second Danish exhibition is nearby, it is more funny than profound, although there are plenty of texts here. This exhibit focuses on how cycling is changing the city. True, it looks more like an exhibition of funny bicycles - each of them with some quirk, a real collection. There are bicycles based on old models, there are several models with a roof and three wheels, and one is a fur one with horns. Each piece comes in a cardboard box with cut round windows, lettering and photographs of architecture on the walls.

The Danish exposition will be accompanied by master classes from Danish architectural firms and a lecture on the introduction of cycling culture in cities.

The main theme of 'Next' is represented by several expositions. One of them, which replaced the Archcatalogue, occupies the lobby on the ground floor. Shown here are the works of 24 young architects selected in the New Names competition. The authors of these works for three days (on Saturday inclusive) can be seen live - they will work directly at the exhibition on new competitive projects - in the farthest part of the third floor (apparently, in order to hinder creativity only those visitors who get there) closets, computers and easels are arranged. What will be done in these few days will be demonstrated on Saturday, and then four winners will be announced in the evening. Four will go to the Rotterdam Biennale - and there the Rotterdam jury will choose one of the most worthy. He will receive his own personal computer at the next Arch Moscow, the second Biennale. So, according to the organizers' plan, an "adult" architect will be exhibited at the ‘Next’ exhibition, and a young one at the Biennale, alternating year after year.

The ‘Next’ program includes several more exhibitions: an exposition of diploma works, also selected as a result of a competition, and three exhibitions devoted to schools of architecture or teaching methods: the workshop of Yevgeny Ass and the workshop of TAF from the Moscow Architectural Institute, and the workshop of Malakhov and Repnina in Samara. The first - in the hall on the second floor, exhibits four student projects on the current topic of reconstruction of the Central House of Artists; discussion of these projects will take place on Thursday.

Two other architectural schools are presented on the so-called "balcony" next to each other - and here it becomes noticeable that they are similar, although the Samara exhibition is made more solidly and accurately, and the exhibition of the TAF workshop is deliberately large and wide.

Arch Moscow has always included several “associated” projects. Last year, there was some overkill in this area, especially in connection with the exhibitions of the Moscow City Architecture Committee in the building of the State Tretyakov Gallery. This year, everything again became calmer, more familiar partners remained. This is "Archstoyanie", which "flies away": its theme is "outside the earth." The Golden Ratio that nominated the award for the award, presented earlier this week, will reward the internet voting favorites on Friday. The House of the Year award, which is still being voted on, will announce its winners on Thursday evening and also at Arch Moscow. The exhibition of buildings nominated for the House of the Year award, both in Moscow and held for the first time in St. Petersburg, is arranged on the second floor right on the glass, which is beautiful (it looks like slides), but inconvenient (the sun shines in the eyes).

The exhibition of the "Cities" project also found a place there, and the pictures were supplemented with a small environmental campaign - tonight at the opening of the project it was possible to plant seeds in a lawn suspended above the floor.

One of the new partners of Arch of Moscow is the Union of Architects of Russia, which called itself the “patron” of the event and for the first time organized its stand here - in the form of an arch-cafe on the third floor.

In a word, the exhibition, contrary to fears, did not become poorer, but on the contrary, somehow "settled down" and prettier. There is something to see.

We plan to provide additional coverage of the ‘Next’ program, master classes and lectures.

The exhibition will run until May 31.

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