Museum of Organic Culture

Museum of Organic Culture
Established 2011
Location 140400, 10, Kazakova str., Kremlin, Kolomna, the Moscow region, Russia
Type Russian avant-garde
Director Tatyana Kilya
Website museumart.ru

Museum of Organic Culture (abbreviated as MOC) (Russian: Музей органической культуры) is located in Kolomna, Russia, in merchant Lvov’s estate, a monument of wooden architecture of the XIX century.[1] The museum has been organized on the initiative of Alla Povelikhina, Nina Suyetina, Vasily Rakitin and Elena Rakitina, and Irina Alikina. The museum houses a unique collection of works of Russian avant-garde of the early twentieth century.[1][2][3]

Activities

In its activities, MOC presents the story of the formation and development of the organic[4] trend in modern Russian art.[5][6]

Collection

Museum of Arts of the XX-XXI centuries

The permanent exposition of Museum of Arts of the XX-XXI centuries displays the works of Elena Guro and Mikhail Matyushin - the key personalities of Organic Culture.

In 1923-1926 Michael Matyushin headed the Department of Organic Culture in GINKhUK (the State Institute of Artistic Culture). The aim of the department was to determine, confirm or specify empirically with laboratory test results naturally observed dynamics and patterns of interaction of the principal means of plastic language – shape and colour – and later on to study the effect of sound on these means. The peculiarity of the study of color, shape and sound was that they were studied and empirically observed not in isolation, taking into account the spatial environment incorporating the objects of observation. This was achieved due to the "advanced vision" "ZOR-VED" (vision + cognition), which created the understanding of interconnections, "fusion of essences but not of semblances".

The most outstanding masters belonging to this trend were brother and sisters Boris, Maria, and Ksenia Ender.

Part of the Museum`s collection is completed with works of St Petersburg`s artist Vladimir Sterligov, who developed the theory of an additional element in art, as well as works of Tatiana Glebova, Pavel Kondratiev, Elizaveta Aleksandrova, A. Baturin and others.[2]

Museum of Russian Photo Art

The permanent exhibition of the Museum of Russian Photo Art "Historical Pages" presents the following areas of photographic art: pictorialism (artistic photography), landscape pictures (location photography), ethnographic photography of the second half of the XIX century, documentalism, and studio photography.

Museum of Traditions

Museum of Traditions is still in the process of formation; its exposition includes works of archeology and crafts, as well as works of the artists who had a naive attitude to their surrounding reality: Pavel Leonov, Katya Medvedeva, Taisiya Shvetsova, Lyudmila Voronova, Lyubov’ Maykova and others.

Publications of the Museum of Arts of the XX-XXI centuries

Publications about the museum in the travel guides

References

  1. 1 2 Museum of Organic Culture has been opened in Kolomna near Moscow. Official website of the TV channel "Culture". Culture (01.09.2011).
  2. 1 2 Pavlikova, Alla. A new format for new art. Three concepts of Yuri Avvakumov. Architectural Herald, № 3 (108) (29 September 2008). - "... A unique collection of works of Russian avant-garde of the early twentieth century is presented. By the mid-1910s avant-garde art had identified several areas, including the "organic" one”. Accessed on: July 8, 2015. Archived from the original source on 8 July 2015.
  3. (Russian) Museum of Organic Culture has opened an exhibition of cultural heirs of the Russian avant-garde. TV channel "Culture", (4 September 2012)
  4. Lossky N. The world as an organic whole. - MOC. - 2014.
  5. “Great Utopia” has been performed in Moscow, but in New York it was even greater”. "Kommersant” № 79 (29.04.1993)
  6. Organica / Edited by Alla Povelihinoy and others. - Galerie Gmurzynska. - 1999.

Coordinates: 55°06′15″N 38°45′22″E / 55.1042°N 38.7561°E / 55.1042; 38.7561

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