Tretyakov can overwhelm "The Ninth Wave". Aivazovsky's exhibition opens tomorrow

Will there be a new meme in Moscow - "turn on Aivazovsky" - will become clear in the coming weekend. Tomorrow at the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val opens a large monographic exhibition of Ivan Aivazovsky. The exhibition was announced last winter, to her gallery opening teaser released - and for the first time started to sell tickets online prior to the event. To date, it has already sold 17 thousand tickets. What and how to show a benefit of the main Russian seascape - recognized our correspondent.

Braving the waves, the sea here is worried about two and a majestic and ruthless "The Ninth Wave" fills the space of the Tretyakov Gallery. Main masterpiece Aivazovsky brought from the Russian Museum. This work, which is called a textbook. Contemporaries called it the "Hymn to Life",

"unquenchable hope", "Ode to the endless struggle." Next to the "ninth shaft" - at least well-known works by Aivazovsky more of the seventeen museums and six private collections. Sea waves hide many secrets.

"For example, the painting" Stormy Sea ". It turned out that there is a change. The artist wrote the first two ships, but then one smeared. He could make changes to the outlines of the mountains, in the motion of the waves ", - says Galina Churakov curator of the exhibition.

Power marine element Aivazovsky experienced the times. One was in such a storm, after which the newspaper wrote: "there are victims among the dead - a Russian artist." Seascape wrote from memory in a room with dark red walls and windows that did not come out of the sea. Over a lifetime, Aivazovsky created more than six thousand paintings. So, on average I wrote two paintings a week. This fertility in many damning, even said "let the talent to" ayvaznyu ". How to "shake" snobbery in relation to the artist as to debunk stereotypes?

"We have identified that Aivazovsky is one of the most prominent representatives of late Romanticism, that he owes a lot to the German idealist philosophy and aesthetics. Profound metaphysical thinking about the universe, about how small a person in the face of the rule of the elements ", - said General Director of the State Tretyakov Gallery Zelfira Tregulova.

The Tretyakov Gallery is just the second large-scale retrospective of Aivazovsky. The organizers decided to escape from history. The audience is sent to the free swimming, they are asked to "run" from the calm - to the storm, from the dawn - to decline. The artist appears as a marine painter, battle scenes and graphic artist. Picture "Off the coast of the Caucasus," the audience has not seen - a large canvas for the first time in half a century will be released from the vaults of the Tretyakov Gallery.

"It was covered with several layers of varnish is very dark, it was difficult to take pictures. That is why it has never been included in the exhibition. She demanded touching hands restorer ", - says Galina Churakov.

It is expected that the exhibition will visit Aivazovsky about 300 thousand people. The spectators in the gallery promises maximum comfort - still fresh memories of Serov's exhibition, with field kitchen and a record number of visitors - nearly half a million people.

Very soon engulf the Tretyakov Gallery "The Ninth Wave". But an influx of visitors is ready. The door broke down the fans of Serov replaced - put stronger. And introduced new rules. In Aivazovsky's exhibition can purchase an electronic ticket for a certain time. Visitors will start every half hour. At the same time, inspection exposure limit will not.