Jacky Tsai in Moscow — On Screen and in the Press
Evening Urgant and the Russian media · 2018
13th Feb 2018
Moscow
In February 2018, Jacky Tsai’s Moscow projects reached audiences across television, newspapers, art publications and fashion magazines. His solo exhibition Fly Me to the Moon at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and his large-scale Chinese New Year installations at GUM prompted interviews and reports exploring the meeting of Chinese and Russian culture, traditional craft and contemporary art.
This archive brings together selected coverage from that period, with a television appearance on Evening Urgant at its centre.
Jacky Tsai on Evening Urgant
Channel One Russia · 13 February 2018
Tsai joined host Ivan Urgant on Вечерний Ургант / Evening Urgant during his Moscow visit. The appearance brought the artist and his work into the setting of the Russian television talk show, alongside the opening of his museum exhibition and the public installations at GUM.
Archival programme excerpt supplied by the artist. Original broadcast: Channel One Russia / Evening Urgant, 13 February 2018. Russian-language interview.
In conversation with the Russian press
Photograph: Irina Buzhor / Kommersant, 2018.
Interviews and features explored the ideas behind Tsai’s Moscow projects, from traditional Chinese craft and Russian imagery to the meeting of cultures in contemporary art.
Kommersant
In conversation with Igor Grebelnikov about the MMOMA exhibition, GUM installations and the cultural symbols in Tsai’s work.
Read the interview · 26 February 2018
Esquire Russia
Beyond the floral skull: Chinese craft traditions, Russian painting and Tsai’s wider artistic practice.
BURO.
The GUM installations and Chinese New Year festival
ELLE Decoration Russia
Vogue Russia
View the archived exhibition feature
RBC Style
The exhibition in its Moscow context
Television reports from Moscow
Jacky Tsai in the TV Rain / Дождь studio. Photograph from the artist’s archive.
TV Rain — interview with Jacky Tsai · 9 February 2018
Further television reports from Moscow:
TV BRICS — Jacky Tsai’s first exhibition in Russia
RBC TV — cultural programme archive
Moscow 24 — the GUM festival opening
Moscow 24 — on-site festival coverage
From the wider television archive — ONT
This Russian-language ONT excerpt shows Tsai and his work in a gallery setting, including a demonstration of artwork viewed through a mobile device. Recording supplied by the artist; original broadcast date unconfirmed.
ONT television excerpt from the artist’s archive. Russian-language report; original broadcast date unconfirmed.