"Russian Realism of XXI century" in the Central Museum of contemporary history of Russia
ARTinvestment.RU   12 октября 2015

The exhibition presents the work of contemporary artists in the technique from classical painting to video art and works 1920-30-х from the Museum's collection

the State Central Museum of
contemporary history of Russia,
10 October — 1 November 2015
Moscow, St. Tverskaya, 21

The State Central Museum of contemporary history of Russia opened an exhibition of works by contemporary artists in the technique from classical painting to video art "Russian Realism of XXI century". The exhibition includes works of the 1920s and 30s from the collection of the Museum. The project is curated by art critic and art historian Arseny Steiner@

Two era, presented at the exhibition, — 1920-1930-ies and the five-year plan 2010-2015 — close the fact that in these periods of radical avant-garde (1910s and 1990s) loses relevance. Punk struggle with idealism and academic over, forgotten during the revolution, the picturesqueness is gaining strength, returning to the term "realism" shade of philosophical universals. True realism, according to L. Tolstoy describes is not the truth of what is, and the truth of what should be, what is coming to us, but is not. Today arrow art barometer hovers around idealistic "standards," sincere, life-affirming truth, to which appeal the artists as pre-war, and our pokoleni@

15 artists of the last century, and 25 artists of the XXI century in the Museum of contemporary history of Russia are deploying a wide palette of stylistic realism, but also allow for direct communication between the various realistic art two centuries. Power point on which is focused the attention of artists, discover the internal unity of the realistic method and its readiness for the challenges sovremennosti@

Industrial future write Konstantin Bogaevsky ("dneprostroy", 1930) and Anton Chumak ("Ark", 2015). The same story is repeated in Peter Kotov ("blast Furnace № 1", 1931) and Andrew Omolewa ("totem", 2014). Golden flags Alexey Belyaev-Gintovt ("Atlantis. Ascending", 2015) once again remind about the Great Style of the past veka@

Exhibition "Russian Realism of XXI century" shows a significant trend in contemporary Russian art: the return of figurative art, which combines reliance on tradition, attention to reality and an ethical position in the vanguard of the artistic process. Interpreting and reworking the cultural baggage of modernism, in the twenty-first century realism again takes a leading position in fine iskusstva@

Artists: С. Agroskin, A. Belyaev-Gintovt, M. Blinov, A. Velichko, I. Gaponov, А. Dashevsky, A. Dyakov, A. Zaborovskaya, Е. Kovylina, В. Kolesnikov,, C. Lipgart, A. Morozov, K. Novikov, I. Pestov, T. Podmarkova, A. Omulew, D. Pushkarev, М. Rozanov, Leonid Rotar, V. Zaikov, Е. Samorodova and S. Sonin, Blue Soup, A. Chizhov, A. Chumak, D. Shevchuk, E. Yashin, Doping-Pong.

Source: museum.ru