The exhibition project “Casts” offers more questions than answers: how does a work of art end up in history, can we say that the original is more valuable than a copy, and what is the relationship between modernity and tradition – is modern art only a copy from the classical original? The exhibition’s structure embodies two approaches to history: a linear classical interpretation expressed in the Museum exposition, and anachronistic stories of the present, which are distributed across the Museum space and, in turn, interact with the nearby casts.

May 20–June 17, 2018
Scientific-Research Museum of the Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg
Curated by Elena Gubanova