The Russian Academy Of Arts

30 September 2009 – 31 October 2009
Victoria Gallery
Samara, Russia

On September 30th, 2009 Zurab Tsereteli, a founder and Director of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, unveiled in Samara an exhibition of Russian avant-garde from the Museum holdings.

In 1999 Zurab Tsereteli established the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and donated his private collection of the 20th century works of art that became a core of the Museum funds.

Several months ago this selection of paintings was exhibited in Japan and won a big success. In the early 20th century, Russian art was at the peak of the world art process and many innovative art movements were created in Russia or by Russian artists. Being a part of history, the phenomenon of this great experiment has been named Russian avant-garde.  The term “Russian avant-garde” is not connected with any art program or style, it is a generalized term for radical innovative trends in art,  that appeared in 1907-1914 and matured in the post revolution decade.

Diverse trends of avant-garde including futurism, cubism, suprematism, abstract art and others have been united by the decisive rupture not only with academic traditions, but also with art nouveau prevailing at that time in all types of art from painting and architecture to theatre and design. In literature, the avant-garde was represented by poetic experiments of Vladimir Mayakovsky, Daniil Kharms,  Alexei Kruchenykh, Velimir Khlebnikov, in theatre – by Vsevolod Meyerhold.

On show are works by the celebrated masters of Russian avant-garde such as Kazimir Malevich, Aristarkh Lentulov, Ilya Mashkov, Peter Konchalovsky, Michael Larionov, Vladimir Stenberg, David Burlyuk, Natalya Goncharova, Olga Rosanova. 
     

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