Experiments in Visual Kineticism

On 25 May 2006 an exhibition opened in the Halls near the Saltykov Entrance of the Winter Palace presenting circa 50 works of the main representatives of Kineticism from various countries around the world: Italy, Latin America, France, Yugoslavia, Russia and Germany.

The exhibition was organized by the State Hermitage together with Il Cigno Galileo Galilei publishing house, with support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy, the Ministry of Culture of Italy and the General Consulate of Italy in St Petersburg.

Kinetic Art or Kineticism is an art genre based on the idea of form in motion. It is understood not as the physical movement of an object from one place to another, but as its changeability and turning into something else.

The objective of the exhibition is to trace the development of this art movement, directing attention firstly to the art of postwar Italy, where contributions to Kineticism were made by Brugo Munari, the Milan "Gruppa T" and, to a large extent, "Gruppa H" from the Veneto region. The exhibition presents works by the artists Alberto Biasi, Julio Le Parc, Hugo Demarco, Francisco Sobrino, Joel Stein, Francois Morelle, Victor Vasareli, Grazia Varisco, Franco Costalonga, Jean Pierre Ivaral, Manfredo Massironi, Davide Boriani, Gianni Colombo, Edoardo Landi, Francisco Infante, Viacheslav Koleichuk, and Boris Stuchebriukov.

The curator of the exhibition is Alexei K. Mitin, researcher in the State Hermitage's Department of Western European Art.

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Marco Ricci, General Consul of the Italian Republic, professor Luciano Karamel, maestro Alberto Biasi and Georgy Vilinbachov, deputy director of the State Hermitage at the opening ceremony

Boris Stuchebriukov

At the exhibition