The STaTe hermiTage muSeum annual reporT
The STaTe hermiTage muSeum annual reporT
The STaTe hermiTage muSeum annual reporT
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Guests of the hermItaGe Guests of the hermItaGe<br />
fifTh inTernaTional chariTaBle gala recepTion aT <strong>The</strong> winTer palace.<br />
“old maSTerS – picaSSo – TwenTy-firST-cenTury arT.<br />
<strong>The</strong> garden of conTemporary arT – feaST of <strong>The</strong> flowerS”<br />
On 25 June 2010, the State Hermitage held the Fifth International<br />
Charitable Gala Reception. <strong>The</strong> funds raised by<br />
the reception will be used for the restoration of the eastern<br />
wing of the General Staff building and the creation of the<br />
Museum of Nineteenth, Twentieth-, and Twenty-First-Century<br />
Art. <strong>The</strong> project will be completed to mark the 250th<br />
anniversary of the Hermitage in 2014.<br />
<strong>The</strong> co-chairs of the Honorary Committee of the International<br />
Charitable Gala Reception are: Valentina Matviyenko,<br />
Governor of St. Petersburg, Alexander Avdeyev,<br />
Russian Federation Minister for Culture, Alexei Kudrin,<br />
Russian Federation Finance Minister, Prince Dmitry Romanov,<br />
Vladimir Potanin, head of Interros Company, and<br />
Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage.<br />
During the reception, the guests of the museum visited<br />
the Garden of Contemporary Art in the Courtyard of the<br />
Old Hermitage and saw the works of modern artists: Silence<br />
by Petr Bely, winner of the 2009 Sergei Kurekhin Award,<br />
Valkyrie by Darya Fursei, Return by the prominent St. Petersburg<br />
sculptor Dmitry Kaminker, Head of Sobchak by Zurab<br />
Tsereteli, President of the Russian Academy of Arts, and<br />
works from the Birth Certificate series by Filipp Dontsov.<br />
<strong>The</strong> guests of the Hermitage then visited the specially<br />
opened exhibitions Picasso. From the Collection of the Picasso<br />
Museum – Paris, and “<strong>The</strong> Wind in the Pines…” 5,000 Years<br />
of Korean Art. Twenty-four works by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov<br />
were displayed in the Hermitage <strong>The</strong>atre foyer. <strong>The</strong>se<br />
serigraphy masterpieces form part of the collection gifted<br />
by the artists to the State Hermitage.<br />
CLASP by the widely acclaimed British monumental sculptor<br />
Antony Gormley, made just a month before the reception,<br />
was on display in the rooms of ancient art. <strong>The</strong> exhibition<br />
was sponsored by JT International together with the<br />
British Council and became an advance advert for a major<br />
exhibition of Gormley’s works due to open in 2011.<br />
<strong>The</strong> exhibition of one of the most prominent contemporary<br />
artists Anish Kapoor was planned to coincide with<br />
the gala reception. His work Stainless Steel can be seen<br />
in the Great Courtyard of the Winter Palace until the end<br />
of the summer. JT International and the British Council<br />
were instrumental in organizing the exhibition.<br />
<strong>The</strong> musical programme for the evening was highly original.<br />
It included the staging of the play Accents; a performance<br />
by Russia’s best break dance band Top-9, winner of many<br />
international awards; a specially prepared choreographic<br />
routine to the music of Mikhail Ivanov staged by Daniel Salimbayev,<br />
winner of international competitions; jazz recitals<br />
by Anton Rumiantsev (sax) and the brothers Andrei (double<br />
bass) and Mikhail (piano) Ivanov, Distinguished Artists<br />
of Russia, winners of European competitions and festivals.<br />
<strong>The</strong> pavilion chosen for the formal dinner “Feast of the<br />
Flowers” was decorated with watercolours by Alla Beliakova,<br />
one of Arthur Fonvisin and Robert Falk’s favourite<br />
students, and with floral compositions.<br />
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