"Worker and Collective Farm Girl /Iofan and Mukhina"
ARTinvestment.RU   12 декабря 2009

In the suite of the Main Building of the State Museum of Architecture. MUAR opened an exhibition devoted to the creation of the Pavilion of the USSR at the International Exhibition in Paris in 1937

suite in the Main Building of the State Museum of Architecture. MUAR opened the exhibition "Worker and Collective Farm Girl /Iofan and Mukhina," dedicated to the creation of the USSR Pavilion at the International Exhibition in Paris in 1937.

exhibition timed to coincide with the return of the sculptural group "Work and Collective Farm Girl "in its place at the Exhibition Center, where she stood after her great success in Paris. After many years of restoration of a sculpture installed at the specially built for her pavilion-pedestal, returning it to the altitude, which was originally conceived by the authors B. Iofanom and B. Fly .

at the Museum of Architecture stored sketches, architectural and construction drawings, models and photographs of the International Exhibition in Paris, and visitors can see fully and historically accurate way to create a Pavilion from initial concept to obtain a triumphant Grand Prix.

From the first sketches Iofan actively develops the idea of synthesis and executes a project in which brings together architecture and sculpture: put on the roof of the pavilion figures of men and women, holding aloft the hands of a hammer and sickle.

museum exhibits for the first time the original version of the sculpture "Worker and Collective Farm Girl" (1936) created in the studio of architect B. Iofan.

In July 1936 draft of the pavilion of the USSR (Authors: BM Iofan, MV Andrianov, AI Baranskii , SA Gelfeld, DM Dmitrovich, N. Zenkevich, D. M. Iofan, J. F. Popov, and VV Polyatsky) was approved by the Government.

soon declared closed competition for the sculpture itself, with a condition - guided by the idea and the general composition of the sculptural group, as defined by the architect in the project.

sculptors participated in the contest: VA Andreev , MG Manizer, VI Mukhina, ID Shadr. Vera Mukhina only one of all appreciated the suggestion that the engineer P. Lviv on the application as the material of stainless steel. She found the most expressive form of embodiment of the idea of the architect. Iofan is supported her project, after which Mukhina became a full sponsor in the creation of the pavilion.

Museum shows the author's plaster model of the "Worker and Collective Farm" (1936).

Boris Iofan and Vera Mukhina were harmonious duet in the construction of the Soviet pavilion, where the architecture and sculpture were thought of as equivalent.

The exhibition runs until February 4, 2010.

Source: muar. ru