Tonight at the Department of personal collections GMII the Pushkin will be opening the exhibition of Russian and Soviet Porcelain XIX - XX centuries "Ode to Joy" from the collection of Russian art of the Fund Yuri Traysmana

This evening at the Department of personal collections GMII the Pushkin will be opening the exhibition of Russian and Soviet Porcelain XIX-XX centuries "Ode to Joy" from the collection of Russian art of the Fund Yuri Traysmana.

Organizers of the exhibition: Ministry of Culture of Russia, the State Museum of Fine Arts named after AS Pushkin, the Fund of Russian Art Yuri Traysmana.

famous collector, the organizer of the exhibition "Forbidden Art" devoted to non-conformism and underground, as shown in the 1998-2008 years in the 9 museums around the world (including RM and TG), represents the first time in Russia, another area of its collector activity . Deep interest in social aspects of art determined the main direction of assembly in general and the current theme of the exposition.

The exhibition includes about 270 objects, most of them - works fine plastic Soviet period. The heroes of the revolution, science and labor, famous cultural figures, border guards and the children playing, action figures depicting the peoples of the USSR or the happy scenes of peaceful life, depicting the myth of the great and beautiful country. Embodied in china - a fragile material, but persistent, precious, but firmly logged in wide everyday life - this myth has gained the quality of reality. And the reality of the holiday: people, events, everyday scenes and even the Party slogans, made in china, get the properties of poetic metaphors and formed themselves into an ode - "Ode to Joy". So named this exhibition. For the organizers it was important that this name refers to the pathetic music finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which became a symbol of Soviet history, Communist propaganda.

The exhibition divided into sections: "Porcelain and the Revolution", "Land of Soviets", "Soviet Culture", "Happiness", "The people and government." In the latter a unique compilation of memorable meals, monumental sculpture compositions and decorative vases, intended as a gift the first person of the Soviet state. Among them - a sculpture "Stalin and Mao Tse-tung", performed by model G. Shklovsky in 1951, in triplicate, vase with painting of the picture D. Nalbandian , embodying the same meeting of the leaders or vase, presented to Stalin in honor of 800 anniversary of Moscow.

In the last section of the exhibition - "Before and After" - porcelain, plastic before the XIX century, showing how the porcelain of the Soviet years was inscribed in the context of centuries-old history of Russian porcelain and porcelain series "Life Is Everywhere» Grisha Bruskin - one of the most held "porcelain" reflections on the myth-making of the Soviet era.

In addition to general ideas, the exposition of the breadth of interesting display of art Soviet farforistov. Here you can see works agitfarfora, have long been collectors' rarities, the most famous model leading plants and rare or little-known product samples briefly existing factories. The exhibition features products represented about twenty centers and fifty of the best masters of art of porcelain: Natalia Danko, Alice Bruschetta Mitrokhin, , Vera Mukhina , Eduard Krimmer, Helen Janson-Manizer , Nina Malyshev, Elizabeth Lupanova, Maria Cool, Elizabeth Tripoli, Alex Sotnikov , Kazimierz Ryzhov, Ivan Riznich etc.

of the talent DIY farforistov porcelain leaders, dancers and pioneers, who stole his grandmother's sideboards, were facts of our personal history, matching the large and small, historic and intimate. And every visitor of the exhibition will be able to look at the rare and recently even everyday objects like porcelain on an old friend, as an artifact and as a historical document.

In 2008, the publishing house "Pinacoteca" was issued fundamental catalog of Russian porcelain Yuri Traysmana. In the same year the masterpieces from this collection were shown at a special exhibition at the Museum of Russian Art Hillvud (New York).

The exhibition is open to the public from September 30 to November 22, 2009.

Source: mkrf.ru