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Mentalism at the Wax Museum

With Pablo Raijenstein

Live a mysterious evening that will immerse you in a new
way of experimentation

The mentalist Pablo Raijenstein proposes a unique
experience that wil leave you speechless. An extraordinary environment where for the first time a
mentalism show is performed. 

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Visit one of the most unique museums in Madrid. You can find us at Plaza Colón.

Opening hours

Summer Hours from April to September:
Ticket office: 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM Public: 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM / VISIT US EVERY DAY

Winter Hours from October to March:
Ticket office: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Public: 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM
*Holidays, Holy Week and long weekends follow Summer Schedule.

Location

Paseo de Recoletos, 41. Next to Plaza de Colón.

How to get there

Metro: Colón (line 4). Bus: Lines 27, 14, 5, 45, 53 and 150. Train: Recoletos Station.

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Musee d’Orsay – Paris.

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No matter how great the glory of the Hermitage or the Louvre, there are many other famous art museums in the world with excellent collections of paintings, sculptures and other works of art. And one of them is literally a stone’s throw from the Louvre. To get there, you need to cross the bridge to the other side of the Seine and walk a little along the embankment downstream. Opposite the Tuileries Garden stands building of the Musée d’Orsay . It contains works of French art relating to the period from the middle of the XIX century. up to 1914, the beginning of the First World War.

But this museum is famous not only for its richest collection. It is also interesting because it is located in the building of the former railway station. There is an interesting story here. Gare d’Orsay was built at the end of the 19th century. At that time it was the most technically advanced of all Parisian stations, equipped with escalators for luggage and elevators for passengers. In addition, it was also the most beautiful station – a huge central hall with a glass dome was decorated with frescoes and stucco. In addition, the station building housed a 370-room hotel with excellent restaurants and reception halls. Several dozen trains left the Orsay station in Bordeaux, Nantes, Toulouse every day.

However, by 1939 more convenient railway routes were laid and the station completely lost its transport significance. For several decades, the building served various random purposes, and since the 60s, they even began to talk about its demolition. But in 1986 an art museum was opened here.

This solution turned out to be very successful. The high glass dome gives the exhibits great natural light. The spacious building of the station made it possible to accommodate a huge exposition – paintings and sculptures that were previously in other museums, including the Louvre, moved to Orsay. Convenient and Orsay location – in the heart of Paris . And now, for the second decade, thousands of people come to this museum every day.

The Musee d’Orsay presents only French art, and of a certain period of time. From the middle of the XIX century. before the outbreak of World War I, masters of various artistic movements worked in France – Millet, Renoir, Cezanne, Degas, Gauguin, Rousseau, Signac, Toulouse-Lautrec … But the Orsay Museum is especially proud of the paintings of impressionist artists. This is a special and very interesting trend in painting, the name of which comes from the French word impression – an impression formed in the last third of the 19th century. At that time, a group of young French painters came out for the renewal of art, for the rejection of strict and photographically accurate drawing. The basis of the picture, in their opinion, was a unique moment, stopped by the artist’s gaze.

The audience, brought up on classical models, scattered color spots on the canvases of the Impressionists, blurred outlines of the depicted objects at first caused misunderstanding and bewilderment. Critics do too. And the artists Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Edouard Manet, Paul Cezanne, Alfred Sisley, in spite of everything, opened one exhibition of their works after another. The largest collection of works by Impressionist artists in France is collected in the Musee d’Orsay. Among them – “ Rouen Cathedral Monet, Renoir’s Ball at the Moulin de la Galette, Cezanne’s Woman with a Coffee Pot , Sisley’s Flood at Port-Marly , Luncheon on the Grass by Manet…

Impressionists changed the usual ideas about painting that had been formed since the Renaissance. And the creative search for artists continued, as a result of which other, sometimes quite unusual, directions in painting appeared. The beginning of one of them – pointillism – was laid by Georges Seurat. At first glance, his canvases are surprising: instead of an accurate drawing and rich colors, there are small touches that look like dots. And pointillism, translated from French, means “to write with dots. ”

By the end of the 70s of the 19th century, when the young artist Seurat studied at the Paris School of Fine Arts, the Impressionist paintings with their unusual color spots and blurry contours were already recognized. New works by Monet, Pissarro, Degas and other famous impressionists were greeted with enthusiasm by the public. Not wanting to become a mere imitator, the young artist sought his own path.

Seurat was fond of studying optics, he read a lot of scientific papers. According to the views of optical physicists, colors in nature are made up of many differently illuminated shades. And a person perceives them because they are optically “mixed” on the retina. And Seurat decided, as it were, to decompose complex tones on the canvas into pure colors with clearly distinguishable individual strokes, again leaving them to the viewer’s gaze to “mix” … Other painters, for example Signac, whose works are also presented in the Musée d’Orsay, also used Seurat’s artistic method. However, visitors will find in its halls many beautiful paintings and “traditional” paintings by artists of the older generation – Corot, Millet, Courbet.

And the Musee d’Orsay is interesting for its departments of French architecture, photography, furniture samples… In addition, Orsay is one of the most modern museums in the world. Visitors can work on computers that store images of exhibits and information associated with each of them.

An exhibition of Russian and French artists opens in the Radishchev Museum

Today, June 30, the exhibition “Under One Sky. French and Russian Painting of the Second Half of the 19th-20th Centuries from the Collection of the Radishchev Museum and the Collection of Inna Bazhenova. The head of the contemporary art department of the Saratov State Art Museum named after A.N. Elena Dorogina Radishcheva and Galina Belyaeva, senior researcher at the contemporary art department of the museum.

The project was implemented with the use of a grant provided by the NGO “Russian Fund of Culture” within the framework of the federal project “Creative People” of the national project “Culture”.

The idea of ​​creating the exhibition was born last year when we learned that the Yaroslavl Art Museum hosted a wonderful exhibition “The French” from the collection of Inna Bazhenova, which exhibited works of French painting. Then we really wanted to show these works in our Radishevsky Museum. We met the President of the In artibus Foundation, Inna Bazhenova, and the Foundation staff. We were told about two options for holding the exhibition: the first is to show only the works of French masters and the second, more extended, which is called “Under the same sky”, demonstrating the works of Russian and French artists who grew up “under the same sky”, on the basis of a single European culture. We liked the second option very much, and we decided to supplement the exhibition with works from the collection of the Radishchev Museum. And so the idea for the exhibition was born.

The exhibition is unique in that for the first time in the Radishchev Museum, works by French, Russian and Saratov artists are united in a single exposition space. For our city, the exhibition is of particular interest, since the life and work of many masters who played a huge role in the fate of the fine arts of Saratov are connected with France. Alexei Bogolyubov, the founder of the Radishchev Museum, lived and worked in France, whose figure became one of the key figures in this project, since in the museum he created, Russian and European art met for the first time in the space of Russian provincial culture. The founder of the “Saratov school of painting” Viktor Borisov-Musatov and the largest representative of the Saratov avant-garde Valentin Yustitsky studied in Paris. The leader of Russian pictorial symbolism, Pavel Kuznetsov, received a powerful creative impulse during trips to Paris at 1900–1920s. In 1947, Nikolai Gushchin, a repatriate from France, came to Saratov, a bearer of the traditions of both the Russian “Silver Age” and French modernism of the first half of the 20th century.

A large group of employees of the Radishchev Museum and employees of the In artibus Foundation worked on the exhibition. More than 30 people in total. From the side of the Radishchev Museum, these are the curators – Elena Dorogina, head of the Department of Contemporary Art and Galina Belyaeva, Senior Researcher of the Department of Contemporary Art, as well as all museum services involved in storage, restoration, exhibition and advertising activities. Works from the collection of Inna Bazhenova and the collection of the Radishchev Museum were selected for the exhibition. When links were built between the work of Russian and French artists, mutual influences and intersections were identified, we set about creating an exposition.

The exposition includes 76 works . All the works of French artists and part of the paintings by Russian masters (39 in total) came to us from Moscow, the rest belong to the collection of the Radishchev Museum.

Saratov audience gets a unique opportunity to see for the first time the works of French artists – Honore Daumier and Georges Seurat, Edouard Vuillard and Odilon Redon, Pierre Bonnard and Andre Derain, Albert Marquet and Henri Rousseau, Georges Rouault and Maurice Utrillo, Maurice Vlaminck and Georges Braque . The exposition opens with a block in which the pivotal figure is Adolphe Monticelli, a contemporary of the French Impressionists, who in many respects anticipated the discoveries of the Post-Impressionists. Next to the works of Monticelli are the works of Russian artists, on which the French artist had a significant influence. First of all, this is Alexei Bogolyubov. Particular attention to the color and vibration of the texture brings many of his works closer to the art of Monticelli and suggests that Bogolyubov took the findings of the French artist. Nikolai Gushchin was also in love with the work of Monticelli. Living in France, he had his own collection of paintings, which included several works by Monticelli, which he had to part with when returning to the USSR. Moreover, according to legend, Gushchin chose Saratov to live precisely because there were paintings by Monticelli in the museum. And this is just one section… Each section of the exhibition is structured in such a way that cultural connections are clearly identified.