The Stella Art Foundation presented an evening of poetry with the famous American poet and translator, John High, on May 16th at 18:30.
To a packed audience, John High read his poetry and his essay, “A Few Words on Methodology in Translating Osip Mandelstam and Nina Iskrenko.” After giving his own reading and presentation, High read translations of poets from the infamous Poetry Club group of writers, of whom he was made an honorary member at the time of the fall of the Soviet Union. These poets read their own poems as well. Included among them were Yuri Arabov, Aleksandr Eremenko, Mark Shatanovsky, Evgennii Bunimovich, Ivan Zhdanov and the late Nina Isrkenko (whose poems were read by her husband, Sergei Kuznetsov).
During the evening, Evgeny Bunimovich gave a talk and slide presentation concerning the project to erect a monument in Moscow in tribute to Osip Mandelstam, who died in the camps in 1938 during Stalin’s “Great Terror.” Though the monument has not yet been erected, tonight’s event served as its official announcement and celebration.
John High and Nina Iskrenko
Poet, novelist, and translator, John High
is the author of eight books, including the award-winning trilogy of novels, The Desire Notebooks (selected by the Village Voice Literary Supplement as one
of the top 25 books of its year). His most recent publications include the
novel, Talking God's Radio Show and a
book-length poem, here. He is the
recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts grants and writing awards from
the Witter Bynner Foundation, Arts International, and the Academy of American
Poets, among others.
High has received four Fulbright Fellowships to teach, translate,
and write in Moscow. His first stay in Moscow was in 1986 when he was
introduced to the Metarealist poets. In 1991 he was made an honorary member of
the original Club Poetry. As a founding
editor of Five Fingers Review, he was
instrumental in bringing these and other Russian poets to an American
readership. He has translated the work of Nina Iskrenko, Alexander Eremenko,
Yuri Arabov, Mark Shatunovsky, Aleksi Parshikov,
Ivan Zhandov, Evgeni Bunimovich, and many more as the chief editor for Crossing Centuries: The New Russian Poetry.
Currently he is working toward the completion of new translations of Osip
Mandelstam's Voronezh Notebooks for
which he received his last Fulbright in 2001. He has taught Creative Writing at
San Francisco State University, Moscow State University, Montclair University,
and currently teaches Creative Writing and literature in the MFA program at
Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York. His new book of poetry a book
of unknowing is forthcoming next year from Talisman House Publishers.
www.johnhigh.org
Джон Хай приветствует собравшихся. Сидят - Юрий Арабов, Геннадий Каневский, Марк Шатуновский.
Джон Хай
По часовой стрелке - Геннадий Каневский, Юрий
Арабов, Евгений Бунимович, Александр Еременко, Марк Шатуновский, Джон
Хай, Сергей Кузнецов, Владимир Аристов.
Джон Хай
Кирилл Ковальджи
Юрий Арабов
Александр Еременко
Александр Переверзин и Евгения Вежлян
Геннадий Каневский
Леша Ефимов
Александр Рытов и Сергей Строкань
Наталья Полякова
Читает Александр Еременко
Джон Хай, Сергей Строкань, Сергей Кузнецов, Александр Еременко
Александр Еременко
Читает Евгений Бунимович
Александр Еременко
Читает Марк Шатуновский
Читает Джон Хай
Читает Юрий Арабов
Джон Хай, Сергей Строкань, Сергей Кузнецов, Юрий Арабов
"Полистилистику" Нины Искренко читает ее муж Сергей Кузнецов.
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Stella Art Foundation at the 53rd Venice Biennale |
Stella Art
Foundation presented three projects at the 2009 Venice Biennale. The
Foundation held its exhibition entitled 'That
Obscure Object of Art / The Russian
Art of 1975-2005 from the Collection of Stella Art Foundation 'at Ca'
Rezzonico Museum in the context of the Biennale's parallel program, while
also supporting Russian artists who participated in the core program of the
53rd Venice Biennale, as well as the Moscow Poetry Club.
|  | 14 September 2009
Moscow - Thessaloniki 2009 | In
the autumn of 2009 Stella Art Foundation becomes one of the key participants
at the 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, with a whole series of
artistic activities arranged in the context of the Biennale parallel programs
and consolidated in a single ambitious project "Moscow -Thessaloniki 2009 /
Works from Stella Art Foundation
collection". | | 04 May 2009
Stella Art Foundation at the 53rd Venice Biennale | ‘That Obscure Object of Art’ - highlights of contemporary Russian art from the Stella Art Foundation collection
Stella Art Foundation supports four important Russian artist/collectives in the exhibition curated by Daniel Birnbaum: Elena Elagina & Igor Makarevich, Anna Parkina, Pavel Pepperstein, and Anya Zholud, all showing at and outside the Arsenale
Moscow Poetry Club
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Poetic performance at the opening of Actionfield Kodra 08 | The opening ceremony of Vagrich Bakhchanian's
exhibition at Actionfield Kodra (Salonica) featured a performance delivered by Eugeny
Nikitin, a Russian poet and curator of the poetry club of Stella Art Foundation,
Russia,
and the Greek poet Vassilis Amanatidis, based on a poetry collection by Vassilis
Amanatidis "The Hare and the Country" translated into Russian by Oleg
Philippov and Eugeny Nikitin. |  | 13 July 2008
Contemporary Russian Art Festival on Corfu | In the summer and autumn 2008, Stella Art Foundation (Moscow)
will host a Contemporary Russian Art Festival on Corfu in collaboration with
the Marina Noel Foundation (Corfu)
together with Moscow Government and Kerkyra City Hall.
The Festival, curated by Anastasia Dokuchaeva
art-director of Stella Art
Foundation, will feature a number of exhibitions and events showcasing the works
now considered to be classical representations of the modern Russian art, as
well as the most recent sensations in the realm of the young Russian art. |  | 01 July 2008
«Qui vive?» I Moscow International Biennale for Young Art | The Young Artists’ Biennale “Halt! Who’s there?” is one of the largest
and most ambitious projects in the sphere of modern art currently
realised on the Moscow art scene. The biennale brings together the creative initiatives from all over
Russia and from abroad (both the CIS and worldwide), Moscow leading art
centres along with regional and international partners. Dates and place: July 1-30, 2008, Moscow |  | 02 April 2008
Innovation Award | Special award of Stella Art Foundation was established together with Marina Noel’s Foundation (Greece). Anna Zhelud', the winner in "New Generation" nomination was invited
to live and work on Corfu island for a couple of weeks in July-August to create a special artistic project that will be exhibited later. |  | 18 March 2008
Global Art Forum 2008 | Stella Art Foundation took part on the Global Art Forum 2008 in Dubai within "Art Patronage in the Business Age. Private Passions: Cultural Philanthropy and Collecting". |
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