Audioguía House of impressions — classic and contemporary media art

Welcome to the Golitsyn Manor.

The future building of Golitsyn Manor is now linked with the Pushkin Museum. Reconstruction of the Manor will be completed in a few months’ time, and upon its completion, the site will operate as the Museum of Impressionism, which will include a significant portion of the Pushkin Museum’s collection.

The exhibition ‘House of impressions — classic and contemporary media art’ is the first museum project to be held within these walls. It has been organized by the Pushkin Museum’s new Department of Film and Media Arts to study the development of a new visual language — of new classics, being born before our eyes.

Despite the fact that the word ‘impression’, has a clear link to the same French word and the experiences of the Impressionist painters, a direct dialogue with them is not the main goal of this project. Rather, their experience is important as a starting point of a journey — a journey towards comprehension of a new experience of perception of the human world, in which visual images plus tactile and auditory experiences are inextricably linked with the process of learning.

The exhibition ‘House of impressions — classic and contemporary media art’ at Golitsyn Manor is a collection of nineteen works by outstanding 20th and 21st century video and media artists.

Let us guide you through this maze of artistic expression. We invite you to find out more about some of the leading figures in art and this historic estate.

Today’s art strives to go beyond not only the picture frame, but beyond the space of the screen. Amongst all the features of the works in ‘House of impressions — classic and contemporary media art’, this is one of the most important ones. Moreover, in the 21st century a museum does not need to be absolutely quiet — our sight, hearing, and movement through the museum display are the means of our perception; from the retina of the eye to a tactile sensation — such is the process of immersion in the image.

The logic of a space dictates the logic of not only the installation, but also the whole exhibition. Given that among the works is a classic video art of 1950th-1970th the exhibition is not laid out in chronological order.