To Cosmonautics Day: "Ready to Fly?" Multimedia Show Project In Moscow

Dedicated to the morphing and reinterpretation of an imagery of astronaut and space in the works of contemporary artists "Ready to Fly?" project opens on April 9, 2014, in Moscow Modern Art Museum. The exhibition features 40 well-known authors’ works that belongs strictly to the most recent period - XXI century: art objects, installations, paintings, sculpture, photography and video art.

The project shows that in our time the space theme remains relevant, although the society’s attitude and the contemporary art interpretation of the subject had dramatically transformed from a boundless romance of the first flights, through a total indifference of late-Soviet period, to the present ironically philosophical perception. And for the first quarter of the XXI century artists the Sky, and Space, and the Universe, and separately, the image of astronaut, as a personified object and subject of the Universe, are still a source of inspiration.

The show title came out of the question "[Are you] ready to fly?" that the instructor, test pilot Mark Gallay asked the first "six" astronauts every day during the "practice flights". This year is a centenary of Mark Gallay’s birth.