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The exhibition will present the works by artists of the after-war time who developed in their art the traditions of Russian realism from the Moscow private collection. The idyllic scenes from the life of Russian and Soviet village in the oeuvre of Tkachev brothers and Valentin Sidorov, lyrical landscapes by Aleksey Gritsay and Sergei Gerasimov are presented in this collection alongside with the works by Gely Korzhev that are fulfilled with tragic reflections on the fate of a man and his place in the social world. These different in an emotional mood and in the author’s interpretation of the Russian realistic tradition artists are common in their sincere love to the Native land and to the epoch they had to live and work in as well as in their principal outlook on the art as the service to the truth.
The exposition will include the works by the classics of the Soviet art: Helium Korzhev, brothers Aleksey Tkachev and Sergey Tkachev, Valentin Sidorov, Vladimir Stozharov, Victor Ivanov, Aleksey Gritsay, Sergei Gerasimov, Pyotr Ossovskiy, Nikolai Andronov, Natalia Egorshina, Ivan Sorokin, Yuri Kugach alongside with the works by the sculptors Mikhail Pereyaslavez, Ivan Korzhev, Alexander Burganov. The exhibition that will embrace the period since the 1950’s till the 2000’s must essentially extend the idea of the creative oeuvre of artists who are known to the viewers for the permanent exposition of the Russian Museum and will put together the works by such masters as Andrei Kurnakov, Alexander Gritsay, Mikhail Kugach who did not participate in the exhibition projects of the Russian Museum earlier.
The exhibition is supported by the most significant Russian and foreign companies, among them Magnezit Group ZAO Raiffeisenbank, Ernst & Young, Roullier Group, ANH Refractories Company, E. K. W. GmbH., Knöllinger FLO-TEC GmbH, SMS Siemag AG
04 July - 08 October 2012
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There's trouble at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. First, it was announced that Guy Ullens is divesting himself of the institution that he founded, and in fact getting out of Chinese art entirely, after having faced various roadblocks to realizing his vision in the Chinese capital ... more
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