The Russian Academy Of Arts

On June 21, 2008 Zurab Tsereteli, founder and Director of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, President of the Russian Academy of Arts, opened an exhibition of works from the collection of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art entitled Spring of Russian Avant-Garde. The prestigious Bankamura Museum of Art in Tokyo is the first to present the early 20th century avant-garde works by such celebrated Russian artists as Natalia Goncharova, Niko Pirosmani, Kazimir Malevich, Marc Chagall, Paul Filonov and others who could create an unparalleled style of modern art that will continue to affect the world art.

The exhibition features seventy canvases and sculptures illustrating the key problems in the development of Russian avant-garde in the 1910s-1920s including abstract art, primitivism, constructivism. The display will be held from June 21 to August 17, 2008.

The exhibition of Russian avant-garde from the Moscow Museum of Modern Art will be on show in three more cities of Japan: Suntory Museum in Osaka from September 25 through November, 2008; the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghiefe from November 11 through December 25, 2008; the Museum of Modern Art in Saitama from February 7 through March 20, 2009.

 

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