An exhibition "Treasures of Nukus" from the Uzbek Museum of Arts named of Savitsky opens in Moscow

The exhibition "Treasures of Nukus" from the collection of the Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan named of Savitsky (Uzbekistan), which will open for the first time the Turkestan avant-garde, as well as the works of artists from Moscow who worked in Central Asia in the 1960s, will open in the State Museum of Fine Arts named of Pushkin 6 April.

The exposition presents about 200 works of painting and graphics of the avant-garde and post-avant-garde period in the Soviet fine arts, as well as archeology items from the national arts and crafts museum of the arts of Karakalpakstan. It was founded in the 1960s by Igor Savitsky, a member of the Khorezm archaeological and ethnographic expedition.

Among the works that will be shown at the exhibition are the Suprematist compositions of Lubov Popova and Georgy Ychetistov, landscapes and still lifes of Mikhail Sokolov, works by Konstantin Rozhdestvensky, Robert Falk, Alexander Osmerkin, representatives of the Volkov Brigade and its founder Alexander Volkov, who in the 1930s sealed Spirit of creative change in Central Asia.

For the first time, the picture of Vladimir Lysenko "Bull", which became a symbol of the museum, will leave Nukus for an exhibition in Moscow.

Also in the exposition you can see 24 objects of decorative and applied art - ceramic vessels and dishes, majolica tiles from the 14th-15th centuries, elements of the yurt decoration, clothes and women's ornaments and 13 archaeological exhibits, among them the alabaster ossuary of the 7th-8th centuries from the Tok- Kala and a ceramic flask (Mustahara) of the II-III centuries, found in the Ellikkalinsky district of Uzbekistan.

"We have a small fraction of the works from the museum collection, but these are the most vivid, iconic things." In such a full form and such a significant representation, the collection was never present anywhere except for Nukus, "said project curator Anna Chudetskaya.

The exhibition "Treasures of Nukus" will continue its work until May 10.