In the exhibition hall «New Manege», from 18 June to 4 Jul, 2008 Exhibition will be held Soviet art

From 18 June to 4 July 2008 at the New Manege Exhibition will be held «Fighting for the banner. Soviet Art between Trotsky and Stalin. 1926-1936 ».

Curator, Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Arts, Ph.D. Catherine Degot believes that the exhibition - it «a new look at Soviet art, which puts it in the global context. Soviet Art - an innovative and democratic. Soviet art as a highly topical ».

Soviet art - it not only images of children blagodaryaschih Stalin for his happy childhood. It was our last time, when the story was more drama with an open ending, the question «who picked up the banner of Lenin?» Has not been resolved, and did not know where to go the Soviet Union - democracy or dictatorship, starting «world revolution» or loop to worship leader.

first time, provides precisely this period of our history, especially the period of «cultural revolution» 1928-1932 years. It was at this moment the eyes of the world were turned to Russia, and the words «his way» was all understandable and shared by all of the slogan.

The focus of the exhibition - a politically left, antiburzhuaznoe Soviet art, «Soviet modernism», very close in spirit to the west, but the language was deeply original. This is the art of the short period between the avant-garde and the Stalinist realism. Art of this time, surprisingly modern and close to a politically and socially-oriented conceptual design of the present day.

There are sensational work is not known even to specialists: montage, painting gigantic proportions, photography, architectural designs, posters, sculptures mass action, the cinema. It was the art of public spaces and collective creative methods of production and consumption are subject to entirely different laws than the art of today's economic reality.

The exposition includes about 250 works by more than a hundred authors. The main figures of the exhibition - Alexander Deineka, Isaac Brodsky, Alexander Samokhvalov, El Lisitsky, Alexander Rodchenko, Alexander Labas, Boris Ignatovich, Kazimir Malevich and others. Discoveries are the work of Boris Golopolosova, George Rublyov, Boris Tsvetkov and others still not well-known artists.

The exhibition includes works from the Museum and Exhibition Center ROSIZO, since 1939 has never been shown in Russia, as well as the work of the store of State Tretyakov Gallery, State Historical Museum, the Research Museum of Architecture named AV Shchusev, the Volgograd Museum of Fine Arts, the Perm State Art Gallery and other museums.

will be presented and items from private collections. At the heart of the exhibition - the reconstruction of one of the masterpieces of the era, El Photo Lisitsky and Sergei SENKIN «Press», carried out for an international exhibition in Cologne (1929).

film shows a special program prepared Gosfilmofondom RF. The exhibition will be issued colorful catalog of about 350 pages in which research papers will be side by side with a detailed chronicle of the events of the era and very interesting even for the general reader biographies of 115 authors, which transmit the entire complex spirit of the time.

Source: www.museum.ru