The STaTe hermiTage muSeum annual reporT
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temporary exhIbItIons<br />
the walls of the famous cabinet in the Chinese<br />
Palace were restored in the Laboratory<br />
for Scientific Restoration of Textiles of the<br />
State Hermitage Museum.<br />
<strong>The</strong> roman Two-headed eagle.<br />
from the archaeological museum<br />
at alicante, Spain. from the series<br />
“masterpieces from the world’s<br />
museums in the hermitage”<br />
09.12.10 – 09.03.11<br />
Exhibition of a single object – a fragment<br />
of a bronze sculpture of an arm and hand<br />
clasping the hilt of a sword with a finial in<br />
the form of a two-headed eagle. <strong>The</strong> fragment<br />
was discovered in 2005 during excavations<br />
of the Roman town of Lucentum.<br />
artifacts of urartu.<br />
new acquisitions<br />
09.12.10 – 16.01.11<br />
This collection of Urartu and Caucasian<br />
antiquities was presented to the Hermitage<br />
by the collector Torkom Demirjian,<br />
owner of the Ariadne Galleries in New York,<br />
through the Hermitage Foundation (USA)<br />
in late 2009. It was one of the most superb<br />
acquisitions made by the Oriental Department<br />
in recent years.<br />
porcelain and roses.<br />
from the “christmas gift” series<br />
21.12.10 – 03.04.11<br />
Works from the Hermitage and from the<br />
collection of the Imperial Porcelain Factory<br />
Company were brought together in<br />
this exhibition, devoted to the depiction<br />
of that most romantic of flowers, the rose,<br />
on ceramics produced at the famous factory<br />
from the middle of the 18th century to the<br />
present day. <strong>The</strong> selection demonstrated<br />
the changing technical devices and styles<br />
used to depict roses by different artists.<br />
we draw and paint<br />
in the hermitage<br />
25.12.10 – 30.01.11<br />
<strong>The</strong> Hermitage’s <strong>annual</strong> presentation of<br />
the achievements of its celebrated School<br />
Centre art school.<br />
Opening of Artifacts of Urartu. New Acquisitions exhibition. To mark the 90th anniversary<br />
of the Oriental Department<br />
Opening of <strong>The</strong> Roman Two-Headed Eagle. From the Archaeological Museum at Alicante, Spain.<br />
From the series “Masterpieces from the World’s Museums in the Hermitage” exhibition<br />
J exhiBiTion evenTS<br />
presentation of a design<br />
by the architect a. nikolsky,<br />
created in Besieged leningrad<br />
in 1942<br />
05.05.10 – 19.05.10<br />
<strong>The</strong> architect A. Nikolsky produced this<br />
sheet of drawings between October 1941 and<br />
February 1942, during the terrible Siege of<br />
Leningrad. It shows Prospekt Stachek near<br />
the current site of the Avtovo metro station,<br />
with the buildings erected there between<br />
1937 and 1941.<br />
Tonino guerra. honey<br />
19.06.10 – 02.06.10.<br />
Marking the 90th birthday of the celebrated<br />
Italian poet, writer, dramatist, artist<br />
and sculptor Tonino Guerra, the exhibition<br />
presented the book Honey, produced<br />
by the Rare Books from St. Petersburg<br />
publishing house, and four mosaic panels<br />
crated by Marco Bravura after drawings<br />
by Guerra.<br />
<strong>The</strong> printer’s mistake<br />
<strong>The</strong> gift of ilya and emilia Kabakov<br />
to the State hermitage<br />
25.06.10 – 25.07.10<br />
On display were prints done by Ilya and<br />
Emilia Kabakov that formed part of these<br />
Opening of the exhibition dedicated to the publication of Tonino Guerra’s Honey<br />
contemporary artists’ gift to the State Hermitage<br />
Museum in 2010.<br />
antony gormley. clasp<br />
25.06.10 – 29.08.10<br />
CLASP by Antony Gormley, Britain’s leading<br />
monumental sculptor, was displayed<br />
in the Hall of Dionysus in the Antiquity Department,<br />
reflecting a practice established<br />
in the State Hermitage Museum in recent<br />
years of displaying contemporary and Classical<br />
works alongside each other.<br />
anish Kapoor. stainless steel<br />
25.06.10 – 29.08.10<br />
This monumental work by Anish Kapoor,<br />
a British artist of Indian origin, was displayed<br />
in the Great Courtyard of the Winter<br />
Palace. <strong>The</strong> vast polished steel hemisphere<br />
reflected the sky and clouds and the distorted<br />
facades of the Hermitage buildings.<br />
temporary exhIbItIons<br />
CLASP by Antony Gormley (Hall of Dionysus)<br />
Tonino Guerra presenting his Honey to the public<br />
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