Tonight gallery «PROUNI» presents exhibition project «Family randan», combining the works of the great Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani and «discoverer» - the well-known figures of Russian avant-garde Zdanevichey brothers and Michael Le Dante

Here's what we need, brothers. Middle of the city that all was close, it is necessary to build a wooden house, where we could meet. Buy a large desk, a large samovar, we drink tea, drink a lot and talk about art

Niko Pirosmani

For the first time in a long time in Moscow was called Niko Pirosmani exhibition of the unique private and museum collections, which will be presented about 20 works.

Nicholas Aslanovich Pirosmanashvili was born about 1866 in the Georgian village Shulaveri (not Mirzaani, as suggested above) in the poor peasant family. Sooner orphan, the future artist was placed in the care of a family of wealthy Armenians of Tiflis Kalantarovyh. It is connected with Tbilisi creative biography Niko Pirosmani: he becomes a painter Tiflis duhanov (as well as restaurants, wine and beer cellars, shops, bakeries, cafeterias), created signs, oil paintings and do not have survived to our time wall paintings and stained-glass windows. In spring of 1912 thanks to Michael Le Dante and his brothers started Zdanevicham «Second Life» Pirosmani, four of its work involved in the legendary exhibition «target», bringing together works by Russian artists of the circle Larionova , and samples of primitive« popular »Art. With the three young artists, art Pirosmani begins to live in a cultural space, it takes on extra dimensions, it becomes an integral part of avant-garde experience «breakthrough to authenticate».

Exhibition «Family randan» represents primarily the work of the «kintos Nicholas», but the situation around them recreated «first sight», or revelation, which three young artist first saw signs in Tiflis duhanah and oilcloth Pirosmani. The exposition includes books Ilyazda about Pirosmani, a catalog of the exhibition «target», Le Dante drawings and Cyril Zdanevicha . Here is a curious coincidence of the opening of a modern audience and art Pirosmani and this revelation, which experienced artists, avant-gardists, realizing the importance of creativity great Georgian primitives.

The exhibition catalog published by a leading expert Apchinskoy N., A. Strigaleva, A. Parnisa, as well as with the text-memory Yuri Rosta of Tengiz Mirzashvili (Chubchike), artists and experts on creativity Pirosmani

Exhibition of works c 2 to 28 December 2008 Gallery PROUNI (4 th Syromyatnichesky trans., 1 /7, Contemporary Art Center «Winery »).

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