The Aivazovsky exhibition was visited by almost 600 thousand people
ARTinvestment.RU   23 ноября 2016

The Tretyakov gallery has summed up results of the exhibition "Ivan Aivazovsky. 200-летию birthday"

jubilee exhibition closed on 20 November 2016. For 101 days of operation it was visited by 598 832. Among them: 69 368 children (persons under 18), 132 683 pensioner, about 21 000 persons with disabilities and participants of the great Patriotic war. In the framework of the exhibition held 1 163 tours, cultural passed 19-просветительских events, including a special "Night at sea" for the "Night of arts"; evening "Of ships and captains" — meeting with the crew of the barque "Kruzenshtern", dedicated to the 90-летию sailing ship; holiday, to coincide with world Maritime day and other.

the First time the Russian Museum promotional video "Workshop", created for the exhibition Aivazovsky took part in a major international advertising festivals and received on the festival Ad Black Sea 2016 silver in the category Film & Radio Craft and also included in the short list of nominees in category of Acting/Dialogue or monologue@the semicolon at the festival Epica — bronze in the category Recreation & Leisure.

the Interest in the exhibition Aivazovsky was a huge — is higher than for the exhibition of Valentin Serov. With the new system all visitors to the exhibition session and the pre-sale of tickets online and at the box office, managed to avoid many of the negative consequences of the massive hype. In General, the halls were filled with the smooth, and the exhibition was able to see a large number of visitors. To further increase the throughput of the exhibition was impossible for security reasons, guests of the Museum and works of art.

One of the problems encountered during the exhibition of Aivazovsky, in press-службе Museum called the problem of speculators. To avoid it in the future, with a January 2017 in the sale are entered personal tickets.

Another related anniversary, Aivazovsky news — successful completion of the restoration of the 14 graphic works from the collection of Feodosia art gallery to them. I. K. Aivazovsky. In parallel with the exhibition, for almost 4-х months of the best restorers of the Tretyakov gallery, headed by the head of the restoration Department of graphics of the XVIII — beginning of the XX century A. E., theis worked to restore the unique paintings by Aivazovsky. It is a gesture of goodwill, the Tretyakov gallery and Museum worthy example of solidarity and support in the professional community. After restoration, they all returned in the Feodosia art gallery them. I. K. Aivazovsky.

Source: press-релиз TG