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Damián Ortega, The Modern Garden, installation view, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2018 Photo: Ivan Erofeev © Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
Exhibition
Damián Ortega. The Modern Garden
29 Sep 2018 – 28 Feb 2019
Event times
Open daily, 11 a.m.–10 p.m.
Ticket office closes 30 minutes before Museum closing time
Cost of entry
Adults:500 rubles
Students:* (18–25 years old)250 rubles
Children: (11–17 years old)150 rubles
Address
- Gorky Park
- 9 Krymsky Val
- Moscow
Moscow - 119049
- Russia
Travel Information
- Trolleybus №79, №Б, №10 to Park Kultury stop
- Park Kultury, Oktyabrskaya
About
From September 2018, Garage Square is occupied by a newly commissioned, large-scale installation by Damián Ortega. His first solo presentation in Russia, The Modern Garden was a place for meeting and interpreting the various implications associated with the legacy of modernism, park sculptures, and the recyclable nature of materials.
Approaching the Museum from Garage Square, visitors see around thirty minimal, modernist sculptures. Ortega has taken various commercial logos and transformed them into three-dimensional objects made of plywood, concrete, and metal. Modernist-inspired graphic design is the perfect medium for conveying ideas of progress and new technology at the service of large companies and corporations. Ortega is interested in the transformation of modernist aesthetics—and of the modernist moral imperative—into an instrument.
