TATLIN NEWS #41

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of 1927, which was held in VKHUTEMAS, and presents works of many Soviet architects as well as works of students of architectural schools – VKHUTEMAS (Higher Art and Technical Studios), Odessa Polytechnic Institute, Leningrad Institute of Civil Engineers, Kiev Art Institute and Tomsk Polytechnic Institute. The authors of this retrospection had an aim to gather the materials remaining from the first exhibition of the «Contemporary Architecture» in 1927, to present them and to communicate the spirit of the time and place, to present the modern architectural society with the avant-garde past, which still serves as a source of inspiration for new architects graduating the Moscow Architectural Institute, located in the same building where formerly the legendary VKHUTEMAS was located. The exposition has been divided into subject zones: the works of masters (Vesnin brothers, Golosov brothers, Alexey Shchusev, G. Barkhin), setup of the «Contemporary Architecture» magazine and photocopies of its pages (Alexey Gan), the project entitled «Lenin Institute» by the winner of the exhibition, Ivan Leonidov, a retrospective of halls of the Union of Contemporary Architects and the foreign department. Replicas of projects by Moisei Ginzburg (a communal-residence house – A1) and Ivan Leonidov (Lenin Institute) have been prepared by students of the Moscow Architectural Institute. In the ScaLe 27.09.07–03.02.08 naoya hatakeyama, «Scales». canadian centre for architecture, Montreal, canada, cca.qc.ca Sometimes researching scales turns out to be useful, since various scales happen to be blended in architectural practice more and more often – for example, architecture is combined with visual arts, which always have been considered to be a kind of chamber art. Naoya Hatakeyama has created three photographic series of architectural models. Making use of large-scale photography, he manages to create an absolute

23.09.07–02.12.07 Digital Paradise, groninger Museum, groningen, the netherlands, www.groningermuseum.nl Peter Struycken became well- known in the sixties with his series of geometric abstract paintings, in which form and colour underwent systematic change. He was one of the first artists, who started to create digital art in the late sixties. In his artistic career he constantly utilized the developments in computer technology to achieve visual directness and ever greater lyrical power and depth in his artworks. The title of the exhibition refers to both his use of computer technologies and to his efforts of creating a personal visually rich world that exists in parallel to the reality. Not only does it find its parallels, but also its implementation – in particular, among the exhibits there are artworks that the author realized in the urban environment. Particularly, the photos of these objects have been used as the basis

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oftheexhibition.Ineachexhibition room one large photograph is combined with several autonomous works. Among the latter there are printouts of computer works as well as post stamps, wallpaper and light installations.

OLD thIngS nOt FOrgOtten 09.10.07–28.12.07 «the First exhibition of «Sovremennaya arkhitectura»

(«contemporary architecture»)», VKhUteMaS gallery, Moscow, russia Avant-garde continues to be a source of inspiration both for the Russian architects and their foreign colleagues. And what served as a source of inspiration for avant-garde pioneers? This retrospective project has been timed to take place at the same time as the Eightieth Anniversary of «Contemporary Architecture»

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