ART UNITÉS THE WORLD: WAYS OF SPIRIT. Brussels, Belgium

Art units the world Ways of Spirit - Cultural forum, which included events in Paris, Brussels and Moscow on January 25-28, 2024. The event included meetings of international curators and artists in museum, gallery and auction exhibition spaces, a conference, as well as a special exhibition project, which takes place at several venues in Brussels in the NooN Consulting space, in Moscow in the SNEG gallery: where original works of artists and NFT images created on a Russian blockchain platform miracoin.io

In the Forum program

• January 25 at 12.00 a tour with Daria Hristova of the exhibition of Russian auctions at the Bonhams auction house in Paris
• January 26 at 18.00 Conference “Art units the world Ways of Spirit” NooN Consulting Brussels
• January 27, 16.00 Visit to the Previeuw exhibition BRAFA, meeting at the stand of Russian icons of the 16th-19th centuries.
• January 28 14.00 Ceremonial events dedicated to the 55th anniversary of the marriage of Alexander Pushkin and Maria Madeleine Durnovo Pushkin, the 25th anniversary of the A. Pushkin International Foundation in Brussels and the 225th anniversary of the birth of A. Pushkin
• January 28 17.00 Meeting of Forum participants at the Museum of Contemporary Art at Villa Empain.

Curators Cornelia Conescu, Pic Keobalchich, Desere Meze, Daria Hristova, Alexander Fillipov are participating in the project.

Artists: from Nigeria (Ola-Dele Kuku), Peru (Valdivia Carrasco), Mexico (Ernesto Mrenko), China (Yuan Shun), India (Tanaya Rao Raj), Pakistan (Shahzad Hasan Ghazi), Japan (Kaoru Shebuta), UK (Edward Liddle), Ireland (Roy O' Kelly), Spain (Joseph Maria Balagna, Eduardo Eduardo Momene), Belgium (Felix Roulin), France (Daria Surovtseva), Italy (Enzo Rosamilia), North Macedonia (Misko Jankulovski), Bosnia and Herzegovina Arleta Cheshik), Armenia (Samvel Stepanyan), Georgia (Sofie Edsadoshvili), Russia (Yaichnikov Viktor, Savva, Stupnikova Marina, Martynov Vladimir, Kovalevskaya Irina, Dyachenko Yulia) and other countries.

Daria Hristova, an expert at the Bonhams auction house, gave a tour of the exhibition of works by authors of Russian auctions. Daria noted that this time the early works of Zverev, Rabin and other authors of the 1960s of the USSR era are presented. She noted the importance of collecting Russian art, it is important to return it to Russia, to maintain interest in it among foreign collectors and the media. Daria also presented a report at the forum on Daria Surovtseva’s project “The Throne of Humanism” and on Christian symbolism in contemporary art.

Cornelia Conescu from northern Macedonia gave a presentation on the importance of forming private collections and opening museums using the example of the Austen collection belonging to Mica Jankulovsky. The collection contains more than 14,000 exhibits from famous twentieth-century classics Picasso, Braque, Kabakov and young authors. Osten conducts active educational activities, publishes literature about art, one of the prestigious international Osten Biennales, which has been held in Skopje for 30 years.

Meze Deseri in his report on the importance of holding exhibitions of artists from different continents, developing cultural exchange and establishing mutual understanding. Dr. Pik Keobakhtich in her report focused on the importance of art for the harmonization of life and bringing peoples closer together through interaction in the field of culture.

Alexander Alexandrovich Pushkin and Maria Durnovo Pushkina noted the importance of preserving spiritual values and traditions through the popularization of literary and artistic heritage. Thus, the international Pukin Foundation in Brussels is actively working to disseminate Pushkin’s literary heritage throughout the world. The family's artistic heritage is associated with the name of the poet's grandson Nikolai Pushkin, who had artistic talent and created 127 images of graphic coats of arms of the names of the Russian nobility, some of which were published in the book. This work is a contribution to the preservation of the history of Russian noble families in exile in the Kingdom of Belgium.

Henry Hans, a representative of the Royal Museum of the Army and Military History of Belgium, spoke about the formation of the Russian collection in the exhibition. About the fact that during the Second World War there were tanks at the front, on which Soviet stars were written on one side, and on the other side images of saints, like on icons. Faith has always helped strengthen morale. Jose Gil (Jose Geal) presented the amazing story of the opening of his theater - the Royal Puppet Theater Toone) with the participation of Sergei Obraztsov and his wife Olga Shagina, who took part in the premiere of the play for the opening of the theater in 1966 on the Rue Marché next to the Grand Place. Jose admitted that he would really like to visit Moscow and visit the Sergei Obraztsov Theater. Despite the fact that the history of the Toone Theater is connected with the date of its foundation in 1830, during the Second World War the theater building was hit by a bomb and it was greatly damaged. After the war, the owner of the theater decided to sell off the collection of dolls and the theater ceased to exist until Jose Gil, with the assistance of Sergei Obraztsov, revived it again. Such an amazing story