MOSCOW, 4 Apr. The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center opened an exhibition «In the Language of Rules and Exceptions. Science and Art», organized jointly with the Polytechnic Museum.
The project is focused on family visits. Irina Dvoretskaya, director of the Children's Center of the Jewish Museum and the Center for Tolerance, noted that even the canvases at the exhibition hang lower than usual — especially so that young visitors can see them in detail.
The exposition consists of six sections devoted to astronomy, biology, physics, optics, geography, biomechanics. The exhibition begins with a room whose interior reproduces Rembrandt's famous engraving Faust.
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“Each room is an office of an individual worker of science,” says Dvoretskaya. — Items such as a table, books, a pulpit are repeated, moving from room to room. They are universal and present in the life of every scientist.
In each hall, interactive objects coexist with works of the classics — in total, 80 works of art are collected here, among them are the works of Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Georges Seurat, Joan Miro, Kazimir Malevich. They are provided by the largest Russian museums, including the Hermitage, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin, as well as private galleries and collectors.
In one hall of biology, the game Fish Making is presented — a digital aquarium on the whole wall. Each guest can color the paper fish and shrimp lying on the tables and use the scanner to revive them by launching them there. Marine life — copies depicted in the paintings of Hokusai and Arcimboldo.
Another hall of biology «sprouted» with an installation in the form of giant flowers, it is complemented by the sounds of fauna and paintings that allow you to see in the smallest detail a saw cut of a tree or a cut of a plant.
In the hall of geography you can stay inside the map with all its latitudes. And the physics section will allow guests to find themselves in literally upside down space.
The last section of the exhibition is done in black and is devoted to the study of the weather. Here, paintings by Levitan and Brueghel Jr. are side by side with the modern art object «Clouds» — a ball in which views of thunderstorms, clouds and rain are broadcast. items from the arsenal of scientists,” says Deputy General Director of the Polytechnic Museum for Science and Education Konstantin Fursov. “These are rare and valuable devices.”
The exhibition will run until July 2, 2023. It takes place within the framework of the Decade of Science and Technology announced in Russia.