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Alexander Labas
Konstantin Korovin
Mikhail Matiushin
Mikhail Nesterov
Piotr Miturich
Viktor Vasnetsov
Alexander Labas
The State Russian Museum, Benois Wing - April 12th 2012 - July 15th 2012
A Town on West Dvina River. 1928.
The exhibition presents the works by famous Soviet artist Alexander Labas (1900-1983) who is one of the leading masters of the Society of Easel Painters. His creative oeuvre became a bright and an original phenomenon in fine arts of the 1920`s - beginning of the 1930`s. The exhibition includes 110 paintings and graphic works from the collection of the State Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, The Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve, The Bahrusin State Museum of Theatrical Arts, The State Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Ivanovo Regional Art Museum, The State Perm Art Gallery, as well as from the private collections.
The main part of the exhibition is the artist’s works of the 1920`s-1930`s, where the original fundamental distinctive features of the Society of Easel Painters aesthetics are found. Among them there is a keen interest to plastic findings of Russian and foreign avant-garde of the beginning of the XX century and aspiration to embody the intense rhythm and dynamics of modern world in expressive form of art.
The exhibition also includes an electronic catalog that gives viewers an opportunity to get acquainted with the works created by Labas in the postwar decades. One of the main characters of the artist’s works is a technique such as cars and airplanes, trams and Moscow subway escalators.
Shifting of forms and their unusual foreshortening gave the artist an opportunity to recreate a dizzying sense of space seen from window of rapidly hurtling train or a cockpit. At the same time, in the images that are dedicated to the latest technical innovations or future conquest of space, the author found his own poetic manner, consonant to his perception of the world. This feature of the artist’s works is especially clearly revealed in his portraits, landscapes and still-lifes, marked by emotional spirituality and subtle sense of color.
The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Fund of Assistance for the Preservation of the Creative Heritage of Alexander Labas.
Expanded Vision. In celebration of Mikhail Matiushin's 150th birthday
Museum of St.Petersburg Avant-garde, The House of Matiushin - October 18th 2011 - May 13th 2012
Exhibition, timed in celebration of the 150th birthday of the Artist, musician, pedagogue and publisher Mikhail Matiushin (1861-1934). Around 60 works are presented from the funds of the State History Museum of St.Petersburg.
In the 1920s M.V.Matiushin has formulated the theory of "expanded vision", which served a methodological basis for a new movement in the Russian Avant-garde art, called "organic art". Together with a group of students in the Academy of arts and then in the GINKhUK, Matiushin attempted to prove that man does not fully utilize his natural physiological abilities and is able to expand the limits of vision of the surrounding world. The artist, studying the reality, must then paint not fragments of reality but the whole infinite space, a single existence of objects and the environment free of unnecessary details.
The exhibition presents graphic works created in the 1920s-1930s, some of which clearly illustrate his theoretical developments. Sketches and drawings, done with a pencil, allow to form an idea about the artist's vision of the world, nature, the image of man. Most of the works are exhibited for the first time.
Translated from the State Museum of History of St.Petersburg official website. (Russian).
Location and Contact Information:
The State Museum of History of St.Petersburg, Museum of St.Petersburg Avant-garde, The House of Matiushin
The State Russian Museum, Benois Wing - April 5th 2012 - July 30th 2012
Portrait of M.I.Nesterova. 1886.
The creative oeuvre of Mikhail Nesterov (1862-1942) that was connected with religious and philosophic searches of the so-called Silver Age of the Russian culture revealed to a viewer the wonderful poetical world of the Orthodox monasteries and Old-believing cells, fascination of the nature of Middle Russia and the inspired beauty of the national character. The best characteristics of a creative person had found their embodiment in the images of the artist’s famous contemporaries. These works are regarded as the classics of the portrait genre in Russian art.
The exhibition devoted to the 150th birth anniversary of Mikhail Nesterov includes about 200 paintings and graphic works from the collections of the Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Art Museum of the Republic of Bashkiria, the State Picture Gallery of Astrahan, the State Museum of the History of Religion, the Scientific-Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, the State Historical, Аrt and Literary Museum Reserve Abramtsevo, the Tver Regional Picture Gallery, the Church and Archeology Cabinet of the Moscow Orthodox Ecclesiastical Academy, the State Museum Reverse Pavlovsk, the State Museum Reverse Peterhof, and from the private collections.
Viktor Vasnetsov. Preparatory works for murals of St. Vladimir cathedral in Kiev. 1885-1896
The Tretyakov Gallery and the RF Ministry of Culture - April 18th 2012 - September 8th 2013
Viktor Vasnetsov (1848-1926) is one of the most popular Russian artists of the second half of the XIXth – first half of the XX century. In his art one can find the origins of the modernism in Russian painting.
Famous for his historic and fairy-tale paintings Vasnetsov was seriously interested in religious paintings. The artist thought that during the spiritual crisis the Church was destined to unite the people, and that the reviving religious art might have become public and understandable due to expression of national ideals in it.
The exhibition presents Vasnetsov's preparatory works for murals of St. Vladimir Cathedral in Kiev (1885-1896)
The joy of the Righteous for God. Anticipation of Eden
