Today at the State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val opens exhibition “American artists from the Russian Empire”

Today, June 15 at the State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val (Halls 60-61) held a press conference at the opening of the exhibition «American artists of the Russian empire».

The contribution of Russian art in the United States devoted a large-scale international project with a rare composition exhibits. A wide range of artists of several generations, in the first half of the twentieth century have been in America. Most works of four authors of the first time in Russia.

Russian artistic legacy of the Diaspora are increasingly integrated into the Russian art-context. However, more attention to immigrants in Europe, although originally from Russia were scattered all over the world. At times, in distant countries in their honor as the founders of various branches of culture and social institutions. Something similar happened in the United States with such artists as Max Weber , Archil Slides , Mark Rothko or Louise Nevelson , in honor of that during his lifetime called the area in Manhattan. The exhibition will recall the role of immigrants from Russia in the formation of the American avant-garde and abstract expressionism, in the second half of the twentieth century turned New York into one of the world's art capitals. However, during this period the majority of the representatives of Russian-Jewish Diaspora experience their Americans, did not speak and do not think in Russian, but because of their creativity - the flesh of the flesh of the artistic process, developed in the U.S., and has not connected with the culture of «historical homeland» .

The artists left the Russian empire for many reasons: some go to study in Europe, while others have fled abroad from Jewish pogroms (many came to the emigration of more children), others fled from famine, destruction and repression, of a October coup. The second wave of immigrants was pribita to the western shores of the Atlantic fascist persecution of Jews on the eve of and during the Second World War. As a result, Russian art colony was originally destined for the lack of unity and dispersed in the huge space of the United States, offering a motley conglomeration of styles and destinies.

The exhibition will show a cross section of «Russian art of America», and its most colorful personalities. Interim draft range extends from 1913 (oil on canvas by Max Weber kubofuturistichesky «The interior of the Fourth Dimension») until 1978, when Alexander Lieberman created an object from a bright red steel «Model for elevation».

At the entrance to the hall of audience reach in terms of familiar names: Nicholas Feshin , Alexei Arapov , Boris Anisfeld became known at home. The nostalgic note specifies canvas «Late harvest (Faces of Russia)» 1923. However, stories «of Russian life» rapidly giving way to international and American realities. Offing from «Portrait of Nina Shik» (1937) painted by Sergei Sudeikin easy to find this Manhattan landscape painter, dozhivshey until 1999 year. Creativity David Burliuk , the leader of the Russian Futurists, is presented as «Portrait of Professor N. Roerich, the first President of Association" World of Art "» (1929) and ostrosotsialnoy composition «Shame on all but dead (City of unemployed)» (1933). Pictures Paul Chelischeva show the evolution of al-deco style of surreal compositions. Chief among them - bequests by the Tretyakov Gallery and stored in the collection «phenomenon» (1936-1938). This is the only exhibit of Russian museums, which participates in the exhibition, and, moreover, included in the «series» of the project.

do not claim to review the entire textbook «Russian America», The exhibition is structured in such a way that as the movement inside the room marked increase in the abstract of the United States in the art of the second third of the twentieth century. In the center of the exhibition made the legacy of mid-century modern: it is Mark Rothko, whose work is given in the evolution from figurative works to the 1930's cult canvas 1950, Jules Olitsky , Bolotovsky , Alexander Liberman. The two last are not only painting but also sculpture, and referring to Suprematism «First rhombic Column» (1976) Bolotovskogo effect was compared with the «ancient Column» (1967), Louise Nevelson - «Amazon» American avant-garde, whose abstract plastic adorns postage stamps united states .

section includes examples of sculpture art masters such large Euro-modernism, as Alexander Arkhipenko ( «Woman. Abstraction», 1920), Osip Tsadkin ( «Prisoner», 1943), Jacques Lipszyc ( «The Joy of Orpheus», 1945).

Almost unknown Russian heritage of these masters of different generations and stylistic directions as Lozovik Louis , Boris Lovet-Lorsky , Leon Gaspard , John Graham (alias Ivan Dombrovsky) Abram Manevich , Ben Shan, brothers Moses and Rafael Sawyer , Boris Margo , Boris Chaliapin, Boris . These authors appreciate in today's America.

complement the exhibition of a selection of archival photographs and two video documentaries: the artists of the Great Depression and the art icon USA - M. Rothko. Absorb more than 80 exhibits in the Tretyakov Gallery - part of the tour project, which started at the Art Museum by Fred Johnson, Jr. (Oklahoma, USA), was then shown in the Russian Museum, and will end at the Art Museum of San Diego (California, USA).

The project involved some 30 museums, galleries and private collections in the United States, including the Metropolitan Museum, the Washington National Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, the Jewish Museum in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

The exhibition is open to the public from 16 June to 13 September.

Source: a press release the State Tretyakov Gallery