Martini Art Love Festival

Year by year, the renowned brands have arranged such art-events as auto shows, fashion weeks, bear and tea events, music festivals for the sake of arts and publicity. Martini Art Love in Hermitage Garden environment shall have it all in a mixed arts version: photographic art and short films, competition, music, cocktails and snakes. This invigorating mix will be at your disposal to revel in from 29 - 30 June 2013 in Hermitage Garden.

10 000 sq. m in the open air 7 000 guests, M.I.A.singer and countless number of cocktail – such was Martini Art Love a year ago. Martini Art Love 2013 could have been held in the south of Italy or in one of the suburbs of Stockholm as well as in the fields of Scotland.

In an ideal environment with a homelike picture house in the hayloft, windmills, ancient chapel, oysters, cheese, strawberry and grilled meat in an ideal combination with a huge stage, public-art, installations and other media– it will be practically impossible to recognize Hermitage Garden after the weekend. You will take a dip in Europe while staying in the center of Moscow.

Frank Ocean shall without any doubt become a star of the first day of the festival. Black skinned native of California, raised in the center of jazz New-Orleans, who used to provide his hits to Beyoncé and Justin Bieber before he switched to build up his solo carrier. Channel Orange his debut album, released in July 2012, was nominated the album of the Year by the numerous influential publications This year, Ocean was nominated for six Grammy awards having received the two of the awards — for best album in urban contemporary genre and best Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. M.I.A. shall be warm up the audience by her appearance also. A Dutch Caren Mari Orsted known by her stage name has only a few songs in her arsenal by now, but she is already known as a promising performer. Her compositions are a well done mixture of synthpop and r’n’b with Lana Del Rey`s suavity and energetic "hey. Exhilarating cocktail, especially in the fresh air.

Azealia Banks` performance and energetic rapper from Harlem shall turn to a key music ingredient of the second day, rapping out her audience with recitatives to house-passage accompaniment. This pert miss’ ascension atop of showbiz was started with her tracks downloading on the Internet; her single 212 made her famous and ranked her in the Cool list of the authoritative music glossy. She is a true Figaro of the music world: collaboration with Scissor Sisters, released one mixedtype and one mini-album, shot a number of video -clips, was nominated to a lot of awards and let rips with nearly all of her producers. But when it comes to releasing of final edition of the album -Broke with Expensive Taste- she is a miss.

Beside, two of the singer`s videos were videotaped by s photographer and one of the founders of cult magazine Dazed & Confused John Rankin, announced jury member for photo competition Martini Art Love. Short films competition winners awarding shall make one of the key moments of Martini Art Love. Among the judges to the competition — film directors Andrey Zvjagintzev and Kirill Serebrennikov. Top prizes arranged by the managers of the Festival shall be a trip to the Venice Film Festival and 150 years anniversary celebration at Lake Como.

Four winners shall be announced during the Festival – the ones, who filmed best videos and photos, and the winners of Martini Art Love competitions. Their names shall be pronounced before the major head liners performances. These will be the ones awarded with a trip to the Venice Film Festival and 150 years anniversary celebration at Lake Como this autumn.

Company Aksioma provided technical assistance of Martini Art Love Festival which was traditionally held in Hermitage Garden on 29-30 June 2013.

Event video is available by the link