In the coming years in Russia is planned to organize two major exhibitions of the famous sculptor. The second will be held at the Hermitage

As newspaper The Art Newspaper, Moscow Kremlin Museums are with the British Foundation by Henry Moore (Henry Moore Foundation) talks about the organization of the exhibition. The event promises to be a landmark: the work of artists, the modernists never before exhibited in the Kremlin.

According to Feldman, Anita (Anita Feldman), head of collections and exhibitions, the Director of the Moscow Kremlin museums visited Elena Gagarina to them a year ago. "Our collection of Henry Moore and workshops it just struck - says Feldman. - She appealed to the chairman of the board of trustees with a letter, which requested the cooperation».

What specific work will bring to Moscow, while unknown. Among the exhibits will definitely sculptures and drawings from the collection of the Fund. Initially planned to organize an exposition in 2011, but then its opening pushed back until 2012. So far, the Kremlin decides what scale exhibition he can afford, how much money it needed and in what parts of the museum complex to place the work Moore. Feldman doubts that they will be allowed to install the sculptures in the gardens of the Kremlin.

Among the previous projects of the Fund - a large exhibition of Moore in the Forbidden City in Beijing. Now they are preparing an exhibition of the sculptor Rodin Museum in Paris, which opens this fall. In the spring of 2011 the first scheduled show of Moore in the State Hermitage Museum in the program 20/21. The program, founded in 2007, curated by Dmitry bog, is designed to introduce visitors to the museum of contemporary art.

exhibition will take five Hermitage halls. It can be seen 75 drawings 1940-1941. The works depict the inhabitants of London, hiding in the subway from the attacks of German bombers. The exhibition is devoted to the 70 anniversary of the siege of Leningrad.

In addition, in St. Petersburg will deliver eight sculptures Moore, three of them will be exhibited on the street near the Winter Palace. Director of the Hermitage, Mikhail Piotrovsky (by the way, once they met Henry Moore) came to the Foundation in mid-April and, according to Feldman, was pleased with the selected for the Hermitage exhibit. Images will be Moore's hang near works of other great masters of the twentieth century - Matisse, Picasso, and Kandinsky .

material prepared Yulia Maksimova, AI

Sources: theartnewspaper.com , artinvestment.ru