The most important events in art in 2016

The most important events in art in

The Field of Light is a large-scale light-based installation created by British artist Bruce Munro It was originally conceived in 1992, when Munro took a farewell road trip through central Australia with his fiancée. Munro made his first prototype Field of Light for London’s Harvey Nichols department store. Shortly after Field of Light was exhibited at the »Brilliant!» Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2004, Munro developed a larger version of the installation for Long Knoll Field in Wiltshire. In 2015, Munro was invited to return to Uluru to create the installation there, at the place of its inspiration.

The exhibition is Munro’s largest work today, with more than 50, 000 slender stems crowned with radiant frosted-glass spheres over an area of the size of seven football fields. As darkness falls and Uluru is thrown into silhouette, field of light illuminates. After a sell-out success in 2016, the award-winning Field of Light has been extended for another season, until 31 March 2018.

400 th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death In 2016 the world commemorated 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare. This special anniversary year was a truly unique opportunity to visit his home town Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire to celebrate the lasting legacy of the world’s greatest playwright. Hundreds of people gathered in Stratford-Upon-Avon to mark the 400 th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare. Speeches were given and a march was held in honor of England’s most famous playwright. People flocked in from all over the country to take part in the celebration, where masks of Shakespeare’s face were handed out among the crowd.

A new building of the Tate Modern Museum in London was opened June 17, 2016 a new building of the Tate Modern Museum in London was opened. The project of the world famous modern art gallery was designed by the Swiss architectural bureau Herzog & de Meuron. Classical horizontal configuration of the old gallery was complemented by a vertical boulevard, providing foot traffic from underground concrete halls in the upper-lighted spacious gallery. Due to the new wing the Tate Modern exhibition area increased by 60%. New art space has been dubbed the most important cultural building of the country since the days of the British Library. The Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tate, Lord Browne, in his turn, has compared the museum with a medieval cathedral.

The exhibition of Valentin Serov in the Tretyakov gallery The past year can be called the year of the museum queues. But the long queue lined up on a retrospective of Valentin Serov. Due to the rush of spectator interest opening hours were changed and the exhibition was extended twice, and in the end it worked exactly 100 days — until 31 January 2016. Of course, this exhibition — unique in every sense. The paintings and graphics were collected from 29 museums and 9 private collections. The last time Serov showed so many works was a quarter of a century ago.

The Hayes family collection was donated to the musée d‘Orsay Paintings by Edgar Degas, Amadeo Modigliani, Gustave Caillebotte and the other artists of XIX–XX centuries, will join the collection of the Paris Museum d’Orsay. A collection of more than six hundred works — a gift from the American collectors Spencer and Marlene Hayes. The first 187 works, valued at € 173 million, the museum received on 22 October. And the rest of the collection will be transported from the United States after the death of the collectors. Hayes is the largest gift received by the Museum from foreign collectors since 1945. The total value of the collection is estimated at € 380 million.

The exhibition of Sergei Shchukin’collection in Louis Vuitton Foundation In 1918 his art collection was nationalized, and 30 years later, the collection was divided between the Hermitage and the Pushkin Museum. In autumn 2016 works from the collection of Russian art patron came together again. The exhibition Louis Vuitton Foundation includes more than hundreds of paintings: 8 — Monet and Cezanne, 12 — Gauguin, 22 — Matisse and 29 — Picasso. In addition, the exhibition presents about 30 masterpieces of Russian avant-garde: Kazimir Malevich, Mikhail Larionov, Lyubov Popova and others. Поль Гоген. «Rupe. Сбор плодов» ,

The long awaited statue of Leonardo Di. Caprio February 28, 2016, he received an Oscar in the category «Best Actor» for his role as Ranger Hugh Glass in «Survivor. » Before that Leonardo was nominated for «Oscar» four times in his acting and once – for the best film «The Wolf of Wall Street» as part of the set command, but he never won the award. The question is, whether it will get him this time, was the main intrigue of the ceremony in 2016.

«The Last Supper» by Giorgio Vasari In November at the Museum of the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence, the audience was able to see again the famous “The Last Supper» by Giorgio Vasari. Half a century ago, the painting was the victim of severe flooding. A masterpiece of the Renaissance was under water for about 12 hours, and if the top layer of lacquer has helped to keep the paint, the swollen planks destroyed the painting inside. The creation of Vasari was able to preserve, but the real restoration began only in 2010. During the work they found out that “ The Last Supper“ has survived more than one restoration.

The Sale of David Bowie collection In November in London Sotheby’s auction was held in three sessions, where the collection of the musician David Bowie, who died in January 2016, was sold. In total, there were about 400 items exposed on auction, and the total revenue was $ 41. 1 million. A serious struggle turned for the possession of things from the collection of the musician. Some of them went behind the sums several times higher than the starting.

Top-lot auction of the First Session was considered the canvas by Jean-Michel Basquiat “The Power of the Air» 1984. The painting was estimated at $3. 3 million but was eventually sold for $8. 8 million. At the third session of trading, the Italian player of Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni Studio exceeded the starting price by more than 200 times and was sold for $322 thousand

The dress of Marilyn Monroe created by Jean Louis In November Julien’s Auction House sold the dress of Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe, in which she sang «Happy Birthday» for US President John F. Kennedy. The dress, created on sketches of French fashion designer Jean Louis, was sold for $ 4. 8 million. Marilyn Monroe called this slinky translucent dress, decorated with thousands of crystals, «leather and beads”.