Today, September 12, Gallery «Our artists» opens the exhibition «Russian Americans», combining the works of Russian artists of the first half of XX century, set up in exile in America. The works selected from private collections in Moscow and St. Petersburg and from the collections of the gallery.

The exhibition opens little-page biographies of outstanding representatives of Russian art of the early twentieth century, and also represents artists, forgotten at home: Sergei Sudeikina , Boris Anisfeld , Mstislav Dobuzhinsky , Alexander Archipenko , Nicholas Feshin , Paul Chelishchev , Eugene and Leonid Berman .

exhibition «Russian Americans» Gallery «Our artists» develops the theme begun by the exhibition « American artists from Russia Empire », held in 2009 in the Russian Museum and 13 September culminating in the State Tretyakov Gallery.

Among the «Russian Americans», there are artists who have attained artistic maturity and have been widely recognized in exile. These masters are, for example, Pavel Tchelitchew and brothers Eugene and Leonid Berman. Tchelitchew and its multi-valued, philosophical, rooted in the mysticism of Russian paintings became known in the U.S. much earlier than in the homeland of the artist. In 1942 he had a solo exhibition in New York's MoMA (Museum of Contemporary Art). Career Eugene and Leonid Berman, who studied at the French symbolists, including by Edouard Vuillard and Maurice Denis, also formed after his departure from Russia. Actively developing neo-romantic trends that emerged in France in the late 1920's, they are organically swimming talent in the system of aesthetics mature American surrealism.

«R Russian emigration has long been the focus gallery" Our artists. We have already held a series of exhibitions, highlighting the work of many of its representatives, - said Natalia Kournikova, the owner of the gallery of our artists. "- In the gallery the domestic audience for the first time got the opportunity to get acquainted with Russian abstract painting in France mid-twentieth century easel paintings of Paul Chelishchev, emigre creativity Mstislav Dobuzhinsky and other masters. I believe that it is Russian emigration to a large extent been able to develop something of value that was embedded in Russia in the heyday of the national culture in the early twentieth century. So deal with this subject, that is, to study and collect, not only interesting but necessary ».

Exhibition «Russian Americans» last until September 27, 2009.

Source: kournikovagallery.ru