moscow digest 016 | may 30th&31st

Moscow DigestEdition 016 May 30th&31st 2015 www.intermarkrelocation.ru

L.U.C CHOPARD Classic Weekend Rally

p. 06

FOODIEZ OF MOSCOWThe festival of

gastronomy p. 08

HERB RITTS“In Piena luce – in

full light”p. 15

OPERA YARDA new format of

metropolitan opera p. 22

TOP5 BEST CAFES & RESTAURAANTS WITH CATS

Contents:Festivals and Fairs in Moscow04 u The festival “Mul-ti-coloured sky”06 u L.U.C Chopard Classic Weekend Rally08 u The festival of gastronomy “Foodiez of Moscow”10 u Fair Mix Market

Expos in Moscow12 u “Amnezia” Joseph Kosuth15 u “In Piena luce – in full light” Herb Ritts

Moscow Weathersource: gismeteo.ru

Cover: Opening of the project “The Basseyn” in Sokolniki Park (see p. 30)

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Dear Friends,The Moscow Digest is back! As always the most wanted events to visit during the weekend. Our main themes are: Festivals and Fairs, Expo, Music, Sports and our special TOP5 of the best places to meet fluffy cats and other cute ani-mals.

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18 u The photo ex-hibition “North Korea through the eyes of Alexis Herman”19 u The exhibition “The Air worlds by Lau-rent Scheer”

Music in Moscow22 u A new format of metropolitan opera “Op-era Yard”24 u The concert “Sounds of the Uni-verse: organ and ma-rimba”

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Sports in Moscow28 u Moscow Velopar-ad 201530 u Opening of the project «The Basseyn” in Sokolniki Park

TOP532 u TOP5 Best Cafes and Restaurants with Cats

Festivals & Fairsin 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!

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The festival “Multi- coloured sky”

One of the most fun sum-mer 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 “Mul-ti-coloured sky”.

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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 spe-cial 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 & 31stOpen time: 12am -6pmEntrance fee: FreeThe museum-natural reserve “Tsaritsyno”1, Dolskaya Str.m. Orekhovowww.kitefestival.ru

The festival will be held for two days long that will allow you to choose the most ap-propriate day for you.

A show of Kites will open the Festival; there you will see amazing Kites and the most unusual aircrafts like drag-ons, birds, fish and more!

Professionals that will make a real show with dancing

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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 con-noisseurs 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 check-points.

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 profes-sional racing drivers who participated in the interna-tional race “Mille Miglia”.

On May 31stOpen time: 9am -7.20pmEntrance fee: free

Start from: TSUM2, Petrovka str. m. Kuznetsky Mostwww.mercury.ru/luc/


The festival of Gastronomy “Foodiez of Moscow”


Park “Krasnaya Presnya” in-vites you to visit at the end of May, the first gastronom-ic festival “Foodiez of Mos-cow”, which will bring to-gether the best chefs from Russian and European res-taurants. This festival com-bines 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 Berezutss-kih, Chef Lamberti, Damien Duvaut, Sigurdur Helgason, Eugene Vikentiev, holder of two Michelin stars Angel Pascual, and other famous food artists.Festival “Foodiez of Mos-cow” called to tell guests about the basic concepts and trends and demonstrate cooking of tasty new dish-es. In addition, the festival of food will give you the oppor-tunity to meet with restaura-teurs and media stars who also has their “word to say” in gastronomy as - Julia Vy-sotskaya, Alexander Rappa-port, 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 archi-tecture and design. They will be shown only in the frame-work of the festival.

On May 30thPark “Krasnaya Presnya”5, Mantulinskaya, bld. 2 m. Vystavochnaya


Fair Mix MarketMix 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 de-signers;- Trendy bags and cosmetic bags;- Original jewellery and ac-cessories;- Interior and author ceram-ics;- 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, hon-eymooners, friends and girl-friends – everyone will find something interesting!

On May 30thBanquet Hall of the Forum Hall11/10, Letnikovskaya, str.m. PaveletskayaOpen time: 12am – 8pmEntrance fee: Freewww.mixmt.ru

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Expos in Moscow

Expo section this week is as always very interesting.

Find a contemporary exhibition by Joseph Kosuth. The maître of photography

Herb Ritts.

Also a very special exhibition about North

Korea or a dreamy project about Paris.

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AMNEZIYAJoseph Kosuth

MAMM presents the ever first solo exhibition in Russia of Joseph Kosuth, an impor-tant pioneer of conceptual art.

Featuring work that dates from 1965 through to 2011, “Amneziya” offers an exten-sive overview of Joseph Ko-suth’s oeuvre in neon.

The show chronicles an al-most 50-year investigation into the role of language and meaning in art, as well as Ko-suth’s enduring use of neon, which he first developed as a medium in the 1960s (preceding Bruce Nauman, Mario Merz and Keith Son-nier, for example), when Ko-suth considered the medium a form of “public writing”, without fine art associations.

The exhibition will feature 25 of Kosuth’s neon works, in-cluding one of the artist’s first neons Five Fives (to Donald Judd) [orange] (1965), along-side recent works such as three from his Beckett series (2011). “Amneziya” follows “Insomnia”: Assorted, Illumi-nated, 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 initiat-ed appropriation strategies, language-based works and the use of photography.

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The artist characteristically develops his investigations into language and percep-tion through the use of se-ries, a format that opens up space for play and reflexivity in multiple directions.

In the celebrated Freud se-ries (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, com-plete with corrections by Freud’s hand, of the opening page proof of the essay “Fe-tischismus”. Kosuth extricates the cor-rections, converting them into cobalt blue neon and mounting them together on the wall around the framed proof, highlighting how writ-ing is studied and converted into artefacts, and from arte-facts to art. Three works from the re-cent Beckett series (2011) will also be exhibited. Fab-ricated in warm white neon with the facing side dipped in black paint, Kosuth uses fragments from two of Beck-ett’s works: the renowned Waiting for Godot and the lesser-known Texts for Noth-ing.

The playwright and artist share an interest in how lan-guage can conceal and re-veal meaning in the act of constructing new meaning; while Beckett approaches the question of meaning by

investigating its absence, or the impossibility of meaning revealing itself through lan-guage, Kosuth asserts its presence by posing ques-tions about how meaning is produced, by both artist and viewer.

Joseph Kosuth lives and works in New York and Lon-don.

He has participated at nu-merous Documentas and Venice Biennales, and his work is included in most mu-seum collections in the US, Europe, Australia and Asia.

In 2001 he received the Lau-rea Honoris Causa doctorate in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Bolo-gna and in 2003 the Austrian Republic’s highest honour for accomplishments in sci-ence and culture, the Deco-ration of Honour in Gold.

In 2012 Kosuth was induct-ed 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 Pal-ace, 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

Paris, planned for 2015. Recent exhibitions include “(Waiting for -) Texts for Nothing” Samuel Beckett, in play, at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Mel-bourne (2010) and — in an extended version — at the Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich (2011). His most recent exhi-bition is Sigmund Freud and The Play on the Burden of Representation, 21er Haus, Belvedere Museum, in co-operation with the Sigmund Freud Museum, both Vien-na. The exhibition acknowl-edges the 75th anniversary of the death of Freud.

Until June 21stMAMM16, Ostojenka str.m. Kropotkinskayawww.mamm-mdf.ru


IN PIENA LUCE – IN FULL LIGHTHerb Ritts.MAMM presents a retro-spective of the famous American photographer, di-rector 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, Rich-ard Gere, Michael Jackson, and the work provided by the Herb Ritts Foundation in Los Angeles that the au-dience will see for the first time.


Herb Ritts began his pho-tographic career in the late 70’s and gained a reputation as a master of art and com-mercial photography. In ad-dition to producing portraits and editorial fashion for Vogue, Vanity Fair, Interview and Rolling Stone, Ritts also created successful adver-tising campaigns for Calvin Klein, Chanel, Donna Karan, Gap, Gianfranco Ferré, Gi-anni Versace, Giorgio Arma-ni, Levi’s, Pirelli, Polo Ralph Lauren, Valentino among others. Since 1988 he di-rected numerous influential and award winning music videos and commercials. His fine art photography has been the subject of exhibi-tions worldwide, with works residing in many significant public and private collec-tions.

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 conven-tional notions of gender or race. Social history and fan-tasy were both captured and created by his memorable photographs of noted indi-viduals in film, fashion, mu-sic, politics and society.

Ritts was committed to HIV/AIDS related causes, and contributed to many chari-table organizations, among them amfAR, Elizabeth Tay-lor AIDS Foundation, Project Angel Food, Focus on AIDS, APLA, Best Buddie

s and Special Olympics . He was also a charter member on the Board of Directors for The Elton John Aids Foun-dation.

Herb Ritts passed away on December 26th, 2002.

Until September 6thMAMM16, Ostojenka str.m. Kropotkinskayawww.mamm-mdf.ruwww.herbritts.com


The pho-to exhibi-tion “North Korea through the eyes of Alexis Herman”

ordinary people live - what is their life, what is expressed of their love, affection, patri-otism 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 oc-casion 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 31stRussian Army Theatre2, Suvorovskaya Squarem. Ploshad RevolutsiiOpen time: 1.30pm – 8.30pmEntrance fee: from 350 RUBwww.teatrarmii.ru

Photography - this is not al-ways flatulence, gloss and provocation, which look at you with the manifest im-age. Alex went to North Korean trip, as always with a camera and a desire to immerse themselves in the atmosphere of a new coun-try, 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 ama-teur concerts.Not always in the photo-graphs needs to be mod-ern urban centres with their unique style and architec-ture. Sometimes our fast, centripetal century is impor-tant to convey what


The exhibition “The Air worlds by Laurent Scheer”

work and represent an artis-tic photomontage.

By creating his works, Lau-rent take pictures of de-tails, of different elements of buildings, captured at the same angle and at a certain hour. Each of them talks about the spiritual and cul-tural heritage of Paris.

The exhibition presents 13 of the best works of Laurent Scheer.

Until July 12thCentre of Photography Lum-iere brothers3/1 Bolotnaya Quay, 3 m. PolyankaOpen time: 12am- 9pmEntrance fee: 200-430 rubwww.lumiere.ru

Laurent Scheer grew up in an artistic family, his mother - an artist, his father a pas-sionate 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 ven-ues in Europe and America.

The theme for his photo-graphs the artist has cho-sen 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


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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 musi-cal evenings “Opera Yard” or a cosmic concert of classical

music “Sounds of the Universe: Organ and

Marimba”


A new format of metropolitan opera “Opera Yard”

Welcome a completely new for Moscow format of musi-cal evenings.

In the program - the most famous arias, duets and ensembles of Russian and foreign composers - Tchai-kovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff, Verdi, Puccini, Leoncaval-lo, Mozart, performed by the leading soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre.


And all of that in the heart of Moscow – at three minutes walk from Metro “Tchistie Prudy”.

On May 30thStart: 17pmPrice: from 4000 rubles.

Baryshnikov Manor house42, Myasnitskaya str.m. Chistye Prudy

The music program will per-form:

Svetlana Shilova (mezzo-soprano)

Alexander Kasyanov (baritone)

Paul Valuzhin (tenor)

Pavel Nebolsin (piano)

The main feature of the evening will be decorat-ed courtyard of the estate, which will invite guests after the official program of the evening.

The courtyard will be divided into several areas: the ac-tive zone with ancient street games, a seating area, a food court, with a cider tast-ing (directly from the barrel), live music and dancing.


The concert “Sounds of the Uni-verse: Organ & Marimba”

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 en-tered into a symphonic or-chestra, the second - one of the most mysterious characters of classical mu-sic, whose wonderful, mys-tical tone attached to any particular product, unique sound.

In the performance of or-gan and marimba duo even familiar works transformed and opened up new sound-scapes. Old music seems surprisingly modern and carries a completely differ-ent, a fantastic sound world.

The magic of the music will be showed by two great mu-sicians, winners of interna-tional competitions: Fyodor Stroganov (organ) and Peter Glavatskih (ma-rimba).

In their interpretation, will feature works by compos-ers of the Baroque époque (Bach, Handel, Rameau, Dowland), as well as several works by Fyodor Stroganov created for this unique duo.

On May 31stStart: 7pmTickets: 600-1200RUB

Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul7, Starosadskiy Pereulok m. Kitay Gorod


The Marimba is a percussion instrument consisting of a set of wood-en 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 natu-ral 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 xylo-phone.

The chromatic marimba was developed in Chiapas, Mex-ico from the local diaton-ic marimba, an instrument whose ancestor was a type of balafon that African slaves built in Central America.

Modern uses of the ma-rimba include solo perfor-mances, woodwind and brass ensembles, marimba concertos, jazz ensembles, marching band (front en-sembles), drum and bugle corps, and orchestral com-positions.

Contemporary composers have used the unique sound of the marimba more and more in recent years.

“The Marimba” from “The Capitals of Spanish America” (1888)

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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.


Moscow Veloparad 2015On May 31st in the capital will pass the Vth Moscow Veloparad, this large-scale event is designed to sup-port the development of cycling and safe driving on the roads. Over 20,000 cy-clists will travel along the Garden Ring and other cen-tral 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 infra-structure!” - Were 8000 cy-clists. In addition, more than 200 volunteers took part in its preparation, they pro-vided security on the road, pasted posters and helped at the start.

On May 31stProspekt Akademica Sakharovam. Krasnie VoroaStart: 12amEntrance fee: freewww.i-bike-msk.ru

Opening of the project “The Basseyn” in Sokolniki Park

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-8pmEntrance fee: 600- 1700RUB

The project «The Basseyn”Sokolniki Park m. Sokolnikiwww.park.sokolniki.com

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” Pro-ject, 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 sim-ple one. All the necessary is available for rent: towels, chairs and slippers. There-fore, hike to the pool can be spontaneous.

On the territory of “The Bas-seyn” are recreated all the conditions for enjoyable rec-reation.


TOP5 Best Cafes and Restau-rants with Cats

If you don’t have the possi-bility 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.

1.Cats-cafe “Cats and peo-ple”

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.

They can and play and cud-dle them, but you can just relax by watching animal behaviour.

6, Sadovaya-Samo-technaya, bld. 1, office 5m. Tsvetnoy Boulevard,www.kotocafe.ru

2.Café Solod (Malt)

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 wait-ing 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. VDNKHwww.solod-kafe.ru


3.The restaurant “Mari Vanna”

Home comfort at this res-taurant create not only a pleasant smiling hostess working in the interior that looks like a residential apart-ments, not only the fragrant smells of homemade dishes, but also pets who live here together: Venia the cat, fish-es 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 Pereulokm. Pushkinskayawww.marivanna.ru/msk(please reserve the table in advance)

4.Restaurant “Budvar”

“Budvar” is like a cosy house, lovingly decorated with pret-ty trinkets, old kitchen uten-sils and lots of interesting items - from antique irons and mugs to shoes, boots and straw dolls, imported from the Czech Republic.

And you will meet extraor-dinary “people” of Budvar - thick and good-natured cats Irzhik and Korzhik.

33, Kotelnicheskaya Quay,m. Taganskayawww.budwar.ru

5.Restaurant “Expedition”

The Martha cat in “Expedi-tion” is a real Siberian cat.

And she just loves to Seafar-ers, welcomes guests at the reception.

Restaurant with an unusual concept, located in the Pe-vtchensky 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 dec-orates the room a bright yel-low helicopter.

6. Pevtchesky Pereulokm. Kitay Gorodexpedicia-restaurant.ru


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