Contemporaries of the future. Jewish artists in the Russian avant-garde. 1910-1980
ARTinvestment.RU   26 марта 2015

Marc Chagall, N. Altman, L. Fox, R. Falk, A. Tyshler, O. Rabin, M. Grobman, Vladimir Yankilevsky, I. Kabakov, Bulatov and other — at the exhibition at the Jewish Museum and tolerance centre

Jewish Museum and tolerance center
25 March - 24 may 2015
Moscow, Obraztsova str., 11, p. 1A

the Jewish Museum and tolerance centre was opened the exhibition "the Contemporaries of the future. Jewish artists in the Russian avant-garde. 1910 - 1980".

Works by 34 artists from Russian museums and private collections are presented in three sections, gradually showing the development of Russian art of the twentieth century: "the First Russian avant-garde" (1910-30), "Second avant-garde" (1956 - 1970), "Moscow conceptualism and Sots art" (1970-80-е).

the Exhibition opens with the works of artists of the first half of the twentieth century - Marc Chagall, Nathan Altman, El (Lazar) Lissitzky, Robert Falk, Alexander Tischler, Solomon Yudovin and Solomon Nikritin, Issachar ber of Fisherman, Joseph Chaikov. The creative search of this generation, its focus on issues of national style were a response to the denial of the existence of Jewish art. However in the works of these artists ideas of this art was embodied in the dialogue and in the context of Russian avant-garde. They thus made a great contribution to development of Russian art culture@

the Second wave of the avant-garde came after Stalin's death, when the first experiments of the international art exchange. The movement of so-called "second avant-garde" has emerged as an alternative to Soviet officialdom and attracted by Jewish artists the opportunity to develop and Express itself freely. Oscar Rabin, Vladimir Yakovlev, Mikhail Grobman, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Shteinberg and other representatives of this group sought to the visual analysis of reality and to the destruction of official forms of art. This led to the discovery, through which Russian art after a long break again became part of the international art process@

the artists of the Moscow conceptualist school, including Ilya Kabakov, Erik Bulatov, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, Irina Nakhova, Yuri albert, took up the study and deconstruction of Soviet realities and artistic schemes, allowing this trend has made the important contribution of Russia in international contemporary Iskusstvo@

the Exhibition brings together more than 140 works different Jarrow@

the Exhibition includes documentary and archival material - photographs, catalogues, posters. The project is accompanied by educational programmay@

the exhibition is curated by Joseph Backstein, Mary (Gregory Kasowski@

Source: jewish-museum.ru