Muzeon Park of Arts
[2]: 61–62 One example of these monument transformations is the Alexander Garden Obelisk in Moscow which originally memorialized the Romanov dynasty and was altered in 1918 to honor revolutionary left-wing thinkers such as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
"[3] On October 13, 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev issued a decree "on the prevention of defacing monuments that are linked to the history of the state and its symbols."
Lenin was driven in a car past pavilions designed by Konstantin Melnikov, Vladimir Shchuko, and Vera Mukhina, before departing for the estate of Gorki, where he died.
In the late 1980s, at the height of Perestroika, CHA began holding lavish exhibitions by artists such as Francis Bacon, Giorgio Morandi, Jannis Kounellis, Robert Rauschenberg, and James Rosenquist.
The symposiums featured a wide range of subjects and participants, including professionals such as Fakhraddin Rzayev, Vladimir Buinachev, and Grigory Krasnoshlykov, as well as amateurs.
As part of a government program to boost Moscow's tourism and leisure infrastructure, architect Yevgeny Asse developed a new master plan, including a redesigned landscape, for Muzeon that has transformed the park into a dynamic and contemporary space.
[citation needed] Makeshift and rickety structures were removed, and a diagonal, winding “promenade” path linking Krymsky Val and Bolotny Island was laid down.
The “School” pavilion (designed by architects Igor Chirkin and Alexey Podkidyshev), where Muzeon's education programs are held, was opened.
Gentrification in Moscow has led to developers and real-estate agents seeking out sites which have protected status as Bolshevik landmarks for the benefit of increased market value.
[3] In 2013, following the adoption of a plan by architecture firm “Wowhaus” (Dmitry Likin and Oleg Shapiro) the Krymskaya Embankment was completely rebuilt and turned into a pedestrian area that stretches from the former “Red October” chocolate factory to the Sparrow Hills.
Unique perennial flower beds were planted; unobtrusive obstacles for skateboarders and bike lanes were installed along with sleek benches and teardrop-shaped pavilions.
is not only a place for preserving historical artifacts, but also an open-air contemporary art museum, a special exhibition space, a music festival venue, and a communal creative workshop.
The pink-granite Stalin statue, which originally was displayed on its side, now stands upright and again on a pedestal following an swell in favor for the former USSR leader.
For example, sculptor Evgeny Chubarov’s “Victims of Soviet-Era Prison Camps” displays 282 stone heads in a cage.
[5] Another example is Yerbossyn Meldibekov’s “Transformer” in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, which presents an interchangeable statue intended to represent the shifting identities of post-Soviet states.
Mukhina herself was a complicated person: a semi-official sculptor and believer in the “new religion” (i.e. of the revolution), as well as a subtle artist who parted with illusions early on.
(1950), inspired by the conflict between North and South Korea, looks like a mise-en-scène: a masculine Russian soldier, dark-skinned youth with clenched fists, blind man, and a Korean mother holding a baby walk across the banners of a defeated army into a bright future behind a woman releasing a dove.
