Edition 016 May 30th&31st 2015
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Moscow Digest L.U.C CHOPARD Classic Weekend Rally p. 06 FOODIEZ OF MOSCOW The festival of gastronomy p. 08 HERB RITTS “In Piena luce – in full light” p. 15 OPERA YARD A new format of metropolitan opera p. 22
TOP5 BEST CAFES & RESTAURAANTS WITH CATS
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Contents: Festivals and Fairs in Moscow 04 u The festival “Multi-coloured sky” 06 u L.U.C Chopard Classic Weekend Rally 08 u The festival of gastronomy “Foodiez of Moscow” 10 u Fair Mix Market
Expos in Moscow
12 u “Amnezia” Joseph Kosuth 15 u “In Piena luce – in full light” Herb Ritts
18 u The photo exhibition “North Korea through the eyes of Alexis Herman” 19 u The exhibition “The Air worlds by Laurent Scheer”
Music in Moscow
22 u A new format of metropolitan opera “Opera Yard” 24 u The concert “Sounds of the Universe: organ and marimba”
Sports in Moscow
28 u Moscow Veloparad 2015 30 u Opening of the project «The Basseyn” in Sokolniki Park
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32 u TOP5 Best Cafes and Restaurants with Cats
Cover: Opening of the project “The Basseyn” in Sokolniki Park (see p. 30)
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Festivals & Fairs in Moscow This week will be difficult to find where to go, as all the events are extremely interesting. Welcome a Wind Kite festival that will surprise you by it’s colourfulness. A Luxury Retro Car Rally or a Gastronomic Festival with the most trendy Chefs. To conclude the selection a new Fair!
The festival “Multi- coloured sky”
One of the most fun summer amusement is to launch multi-coloured wind kites, do you agree? They are familiar to many of us since childhood. Get back in memory all the wonderful moments and get a new portion of pleasant experiences will be possible at the festival of kites “Multi-coloured sky”.
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The festival will be held for two days long that will allow you to choose the most appropriate day for you. A show of Kites will open the Festival; there you will see amazing Kites and the most unusual aircrafts like dragons, birds, fish and more! Professionals that will make a real show with dancing
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kites and fights will pilot the Kites. Each visitor will be able to join them and practice. Everyone will be able to learn to make kites in special master class. All visitors will be able to stroll through the “Garden of the wind”. They will see the
beauty and plasticity of the dancers under the breeze of colour ribbons, flags and other designs. On May 30th & 31st Open time: 12am -6pm Entrance fee: Free The museum-natural reserve “Tsaritsyno” 1, Dolskaya Str. m. Orekhovo www.kitefestival.ru
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L.U.C Chopard Classic Weekend Rally
This weekend the capital, will host the annual vintage car rally – “L.U.C. Chopard Classic Weekend Rally”. Each year, this amazing race gathers together connoisseurs of quality cars that passionately want to plunge into the world of the race. Participants will start from TSUM shopping complex to Barvikha Luxury Village, performing a number of tasks along the route and by passing through checkpoints. The main condition of the Rally - only cars older that 1975 year release. The first “L.U.C. Chopard Classic Weekend Rally” was held in 2003 and attracted 11 retro-cars. In 2014, 70 vehicles were fighting in the race for the title, were two senior centenary Renault EF and portable engine “Model 48” from 1914th. Moscow rally - it’s not just a fashion parade of vintage cars, along with the fans here are involved professional racing drivers who participated in the international race “Mille Miglia”. On May 31st Open time: 9am -7.20pm Entrance fee: free Start from: TSUM 2, Petrovka str. m. Kuznetsky Most www.mercury.ru/luc/
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The festival of Gastronomy “Foodiez of Moscow”
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Park “Krasnaya Presnya” invites you to visit at the end of May, the first gastronomic festival “Foodiez of Moscow”, which will bring together the best chefs from Russian and European restaurants. This festival combines haute cuisine, as well as important manifestations of contemporary culture architecture, design, music and fashion. Festival guests will be able to meet new dishes from famous Chefs Ivan and Sergei Berezutsskih, Chef Lamberti, Damien Duvaut, Sigurdur Helgason, Eugene Vikentiev, holder of two Michelin stars Angel Pascual, and other famous food artists. Festival “Foodiez of Moscow” called to tell guests about the basic concepts and trends and demonstrate cooking of tasty new dishes. In addition, the festival of food will give you the opportunity to meet with restaurateurs and media stars who also has their “word to say” in gastronomy as - Julia Vysotskaya, Alexander Rappaport, Helen Chekalova and others. In addition to the festival of delicious food you will have the opportunity to visit a special Art Festival, which will host an exhibition of temporary exhibits of architecture and design. They will be shown only in the framework of the festival. On May 30th Park “Krasnaya Presnya” 5, Mantulinskaya, bld. 2 m. Vystavochnaya
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Fair Mix Market Mix Market – is a fair with a very large theme range, but the main motto of the Fair is “Beautiful things for good people!”. Mix Market is the meeting place of the best artists and professionals in various creative fields! Find all that you need to for a stylish summer! Have a look on the little summary: - Clothes from young designers; - Trendy bags and cosmetic bags; - Original jewellery and accessories; - Interior and author ceramics; - Stylish things and unusual gifts; - The beauty of the stylists; - Henna (mehendi) by artist; - Participate together: book exchange, collecting of old batteries, board games, workshops, photo zone and more! You are invited to spend an active and exciting day with the whole family! Mothers, fathers and children, honeymooners, friends and girlfriends – everyone will find something interesting! On May 30th Banquet Hall of the Forum Hall 11/10, Letnikovskaya, str. m. Paveletskaya Open time: 12am – 8pm Entrance fee: Free www.mixmt.ru 10
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Expos in Moscow Expo section this week is as always very interesting. Find a contemporary exhibition by Joseph Kosuth. The maĂŽtre of photography Herb Ritts. Also a very special exhibition about North Korea or a dreamy project about Paris.
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AMNEZIYA Joseph Kosuth
MAMM presents the ever first solo exhibition in Russia of Joseph Kosuth, an important pioneer of conceptual art. Featuring work that dates from 1965 through to 2011, “Amneziya” offers an extensive overview of Joseph Kosuth’s oeuvre in neon. The show chronicles an almost 50-year investigation into the role of language and meaning in art, as well as Kosuth’s enduring use of neon, which he first developed as a medium in the 1960s (preceding Bruce Nauman, Mario Merz and Keith Sonnier, for example), when Kosuth considered the medium a form of “public writing”, without fine art associations. The exhibition will feature 25 of Kosuth’s neon works, including one of the artist’s first neons Five Fives (to Donald Judd) [orange] (1965), alongside recent works such as three from his Beckett series (2011). “Amneziya” follows “Insomnia”: Assorted, Illuminated, Fixed.’ and ‘Amnesia: Various, Luminous, Fixed.’, comprehensive exhibitions of neon work by the artist shown at Sprüth Magers in Berlin and London in 2013– 2014. In the 1960s Kosuth initiated appropriation strategies, language-based works and the use of photography.
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The artist characteristically develops his investigations into language and perception through the use of series, a format that opens up space for play and reflexivity in multiple directions. In the celebrated Freud series (1981-1989), Kosuth re-positions and reflects on the meanings employed in psychoanalyst’s texts with pieces and installations. Fetishism (Corrected) (1988), for instance, consists of an enlarged reproduction, complete with corrections by Freud’s hand, of the opening page proof of the essay “Fetischismus”. Kosuth extricates the corrections, converting them into cobalt blue neon and mounting them together on the wall around the framed proof, highlighting how writing is studied and converted into artefacts, and from artefacts to art. Three works from the recent Beckett series (2011) will also be exhibited. Fabricated in warm white neon with the facing side dipped in black paint, Kosuth uses fragments from two of Beckett’s works: the renowned Waiting for Godot and the lesser-known Texts for Nothing. The playwright and artist share an interest in how language can conceal and reveal meaning in the act of constructing new meaning; while Beckett approaches the question of meaning by
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investigating its absence, or the impossibility of meaning revealing itself through language, Kosuth asserts its presence by posing questions about how meaning is produced, by both artist and viewer. Joseph Kosuth lives and works in New York and London. He has participated at numerous Documentas and Venice Biennales, and his work is included in most museum collections in the US, Europe, Australia and Asia. In 2001 he received the Laurea Honoris Causa doctorate in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Bologna and in 2003 the Austrian Republic’s highest honour for accomplishments in science and culture, the Decoration of Honour in Gold.
Paris, planned for 2015. Recent exhibitions include “(Waiting for -) Texts for Nothing” Samuel Beckett, in play, at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2010) and — in an extended version — at the Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich (2011). His most recent exhibition is Sigmund Freud and The Play on the Burden of Representation, 21er Haus, Belvedere Museum, in cooperation with the Sigmund Freud Museum, both Vienna. The exhibition acknowledges the 75th anniversary of the death of Freud. Until June 21st MAMM 16, Ostojenka str. m. Kropotkinskaya www.mamm-mdf.ru
In 2012 Kosuth was inducted into the Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. Kosuth’s exhibition entitled ni apparence ni illusion, an installation work throughout the twelfth- century walls of the original Louvre Palace, opened at the Musée du Louvre, Paris in 2009, and became a permanent work in 2014. His work on the façade of the Council of State of the Netherlands was unveiled in October 2011 and he is preparing a permanent work for the four towers of the façade of the Bibliotheque Nationale in
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IN PIENA LUCE – IN FULL LIGHT Herb Ritts. MAMM presents a retrospective of the famous American photographer, director and producer - Herb Ritts. The exhibition includes more than 100 pictures, among them the ones, which are the hallmark of Mr. Ritz portraits of Madonna, Richard Gere, Michael Jackson, and the work provided by the Herb Ritts Foundation in Los Angeles that the audience will see for the first time.
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Herb Ritts began his photographic career in the late 70’s and gained a reputation as a master of art and commercial photography. In addition to producing portraits and editorial fashion for Vogue, Vanity Fair, Interview and Rolling Stone, Ritts also created successful advertising campaigns for Calvin Klein, Chanel, Donna Karan, Gap, Gianfranco Ferré, Gianni Versace, Giorgio Armani, Levi’s, Pirelli, Polo Ralph Lauren, Valentino among others. Since 1988 he directed numerous influential and award winning music videos and commercials. His fine art photography has been the subject of exhibitions worldwide, with works residing in many significant public and private collections.
s and Special Olympics . He was also a charter member on the Board of Directors for The Elton John Aids Foundation. Herb Ritts passed away on December 26th, 2002. Until September 6th MAMM 16, Ostojenka str. m. Kropotkinskaya www.mamm-mdf.ru www.herbritts.com
In his life and work, Herb Ritts was drawn to clean lines and strong forms. This graphic simplicity allowed his images to be read and felt instantaneously. They often challenged conventional notions of gender or race. Social history and fantasy were both captured and created by his memorable photographs of noted individuals in film, fashion, music, politics and society. Ritts was committed to HIV/ AIDS related causes, and contributed to many charitable organizations, among them amfAR, Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, Project Angel Food, Focus on AIDS, APLA, Best Buddie
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The photo exhibition “North Korea through the eyes of Alexis Herman”
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Photography - this is not always flatulence, gloss and provocation, which look at you with the manifest image. Alex went to North Korean trip, as always with a camera and a desire to immerse themselves in the atmosphere of a new country, which he never visited before. Today, North Korea - is something like the former USSR, with its cities, with its monumental monuments and squares, with its amateur concerts. Not always in the photographs needs to be modern urban centres with their unique style and architecture. Sometimes our fast, centripetal century is important to convey what
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ordinary people live - what is their life, what is expressed of their love, affection, patriotism or pride. Russians, as well as all the whole World knows about North Korea an incredibly small amount of information. This photo exhibition - an attempt to slightly expand the boundaries of previous knowledge. This is an occasion to look that Russian and North Korean people has in common, and what they do that is not like other nation in the world. Until May 31st Russian Army Theatre 2, Suvorovskaya Square m. Ploshad Revolutsii Open time: 1.30pm – 8.30pm Entrance fee: from 350 RUB www.teatrarmii.ru
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The exhibition “The Air worlds by Laurent Scheer”
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Laurent Scheer grew up in an artistic family, his mother - an artist, his father a passionate of video art. His artistic career began as advertising photographer, but soon he started to make highly artistic photography. His work has been exhibited with success in major venues in Europe and America. The theme for his photographs the artist has chosen Paris and it’s buildings. Laurent Scheer features a completely unexpected look at the structure of the city. The independent art images converted hovering buildings over the capital of France. Photos are made because of a meticulous
work and represent an artistic photomontage. By creating his works, Laurent take pictures of details, of different elements of buildings, captured at the same angle and at a certain hour. Each of them talks about the spiritual and cultural heritage of Paris. The exhibition presents 13 of the best works of Laurent Scheer. Until July 12th Centre of Photography Lumiere brothers 3/1 Bolotnaya Quay, 3 m. Polyanka Open time: 12am- 9pm Entrance fee: 200-430 rub www.lumiere.ru
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Music in Moscow “Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.” - Lao Tzu This week we chosen for you very different concerts to visit. A concert of new way musical evenings “Opera Yard” or a cosmic concert of classical music “Sounds of the Universe: Organ and Marimba”
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A new format of metropolitan opera “Opera Yard�
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Welcome a completely new for Moscow format of musical evenings. In the program - the most famous arias, duets and ensembles of Russian and foreign composers - Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff, Verdi, Puccini, Leoncavallo, Mozart, performed by the leading soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre.
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The music program will perform: Svetlana Shilova (mezzo-soprano) Alexander Kasyanov (baritone) Paul Valuzhin (tenor) Pavel Nebolsin (piano)
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The main feature of the evening will be decorated courtyard of the estate, which will invite guests after the official program of the evening. The courtyard will be divided into several areas: the active zone with ancient street games, a seating area, a food court, with a cider tasting (directly from the barrel), live music and dancing.
And all of that in the heart of Moscow – at three minutes walk from Metro “Tchistie Prudy”. On May 30th Start: 17pm Price: from 4000 rubles. Baryshnikov Manor house 42, Myasnitskaya str. m. Chistye Prudy
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The concert “Sounds of the Universe: Organ & Marimba”
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It is difficult to find words to describe how extraordinary is the impression that pits a combination of organ and marimba sounds. The first - the king of instruments, powerful voice which entered into a symphonic orchestra, the second - one of the most mysterious characters of classical music, whose wonderful, mystical tone attached to any particular product, unique sound.
The magic of the music will be showed by two great musicians, winners of international competitions: Fyodor Stroganov (organ) and Peter Glavatskih (marimba).
In the performance of organ and marimba duo even familiar works transformed and opened up new soundscapes. Old music seems surprisingly modern and carries a completely different, a fantastic sound world.
On May 31st Start: 7pm Tickets: 600-1200RUB
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In their interpretation, will feature works by composers of the Baroque époque (Bach, Handel, Rameau, Dowland), as well as several works by Fyodor Stroganov created for this unique duo.
Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul 7, Starosadskiy Pereulok m. Kitay Gorod
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The Marimba is a percussion instrument consisting of a set of wooden bars struck with mallets to produce musical tones. Resonators attached to the bars amplify their sound. The bars are arranged as those of a piano, with the accidentals raised vertically and overlapping the natural bars (similar to a piano) to aid the performer both visually and physically. This instrument is a type of idiophone, but with a more resonant and lower-pitched tessitura than the xylophone.
“The Marimba” from “The Capitals of Spanish America” (1888)
The chromatic marimba was developed in Chiapas, Mexico from the local diatonic marimba, an instrument whose ancestor was a type of balafon that African slaves built in Central America. Modern uses of the marimba include solo performances, woodwind and brass ensembles, marimba concertos, jazz ensembles, marching band (front ensembles), drum and bugle corps, and orchestral compositions. Contemporary composers have used the unique sound of the marimba more and more in recent years.
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Folk and popular marimba
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Sports in Moscow Good weather come back in the capital, time to get in fit and do some Sports! Two main event to not to miss are: the Veloparade in the city centre and the opening of one of the most successful beach project in Moscow.
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Moscow Veloparad 2015 On May 31st in the capital will pass the Vth Moscow Veloparad, this large-scale event is designed to support the development of cycling and safe driving on the roads. Over 20,000 cyclists will travel along the Garden Ring and other central streets and boulevards of the capital. The event will open its doors at 12am on Prospect Akademica Sakharova, the parade will start at 2pm. Last year, the parade route has been reversed for the first time in its history; the participants drove along the Garden Ring. 10 thousand cyclists participated in the race. The first parade was held in Moscow in 2012 and has a great success. For the main idea - “The city needs infrastructure!� - Were 8000 cyclists. In addition, more than 200 volunteers took part in its preparation, they provided security on the road, pasted posters and helped at the start. On May 31st Prospekt Akademica Sakharova m. Krasnie Voroa Start: 12am Entrance fee: free www.i-bike-msk.ru
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Opening of the project “The Basseyn” in Sokolniki Park
Everyone needs rest, True? But with hard working in the big city, many residents cannot afford a full; long and quality rest on the beach. With the “come back” of the famous “Beach style” Project, Moscow resident will get back the possibility to have relaxing time near the pool and take a sun bath – all that without living the city! The project “The Basseyn” in “Sokolniki” re-opened to the public. Guests can choose between a heated swimming pool or a simple one. All the necessary is available for rent: towels, chairs and slippers. Therefore, hike to the pool can be spontaneous. On the territory of “The Basseyn” are recreated all the conditions for enjoyable recreation.
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There is a ping-pong table, as well as an aerobics club. On a comfortable veranda, visitors can enjoy a cup of tea or other drinks. Children at this time can have fun on the swing. The project “The Basseyn” is a great place to relax and get a natural bronze tan. There will also be carried out beach parties and other fun activities that will diversify leisure visitors. Please mind to use a sun protection. On May 30th Open time: 10am-8pm Entrance fee: 600- 1700RUB The project «The Basseyn” Sokolniki Park m. Sokolniki www.park.sokolniki.com
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TOP5 Best Cafes and Restaurants with Cats
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Café Solod (Malt)
1. If you don’t have the possibility to have a cat at your home. We all know that is happens when you are an expat and you know that you are in the country just for some years. Don’t worry about! We find for you the TOP5 of Cafes and Restaurants where you will be greeted by fluffy cats and other cute animals.
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Cats-cafe “Cats and people” If you like cats, come in the first cats-cafe “Cats and people.” The four-legged hosts cafes, nine cats - former residents of a shelter for animals.
Regular visitors call this place “Kotokafe”(cat café): here actually live lovely, friendly and well-groomed cats that are sympathetic to the visitors, allow yourself to caress and stroke, are waiting to answer only human warmth. For the moment find their only 3 cats, but perhaps this is not the limit, because everyone likes this trio. 12, Kosmonavtov str. m. VDNKH www.solod-kafe.ru
They can and play and cuddle them, but you can just relax by watching animal behaviour. 6, Sadovaya-Samotechnaya, bld. 1, office 5 m. Tsvetnoy Boulevard, www.kotocafe.ru
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The restaurant “Mari Vanna” Home comfort at this restaurant create not only a pleasant smiling hostess working in the interior that looks like a residential apartments, not only the fragrant smells of homemade dishes, but also pets who live here together: Venia the cat, fishes in the aquarium, , canary Pavlusha and Doggie Shura. Who loves big family, which always find shelter and cute pets will feel comfortable here. 10a, Spiridonovsky Pereulok m. Pushkinskaya www.marivanna.ru/msk (please reserve the table in advance)
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“Budvar” is like a cosy house, lovingly decorated with pretty trinkets, old kitchen utensils and lots of interesting items - from antique irons and mugs to shoes, boots and straw dolls, imported from the Czech Republic.
The Martha cat in “Expedition” is a real Siberian cat.
Restaurant “Budvar”
And you will meet extraordinary “people” of Budvar thick and good-natured cats Irzhik and Korzhik. 33, Kotelnicheskaya Quay, m. Taganskaya www.budwar.ru
Restaurant “Expedition”
And she just loves to Seafarers, welcomes guests at the reception. Restaurant with an unusual concept, located in the Pevtchensky Pereulok. The basis of the interior lay down simple lines, natural materials, original parts. Among the items you can see the surroundings of pine trunks, furniture made from untreated wood and ropes. There is a real wood-burning fireplace. A highlight is the model decorates the room a bright yellow helicopter. 6. Pevtchesky Pereulok m. Kitay Gorod expedicia-restaurant.ru
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