Today, February 5, at the State Museum of the East (Nikitsky Boulevard, 12a) presents "Turkestan avant-garde", organized by the Museum with the participation of the Fund Mardzhani, Rossiyskogo State Cinema and Photo Archive (Krasnogorsk ), and private collectors.

artists from different parts of Russia were sent to the East in search of vivid impressions and new visual forms. Having experienced the impact of Russian avant-garde early XX century, they blazed new paths in art Turkestan, where, because of traditional norms of easel painting has not received.

In 20-30-ies of the last century, when the center of Russian avant-garde was already a spent, in Central Asia continued to create an unusually vivid and original, innovative products, impregnated local color that can be united under the provisional name "Turkestan avant-garde." These works are full of fresh compositional and color decisions, they have not yet felt the pressure of socialist realism.

main part of the exhibition are works by famous masters, who devoted his life and work of Turkestan: Volkova , B. Ufimtseva , N. Karahan , E. Loaf, N. Kashina , O. Tatevosyan , W. Tansykbaev , P. Schegoleva, B. Yeremyan , M. Gajdukevich , M. Kurzina , etc.

Each of them found his inspiration in the traditional culture of Central Asia. Local environment - folk art, customs, and unfamiliar way of life - served as a fertile ground for creative experimentation of artists of European art school.

They will not stand idly by eastern exotics, and with his head immersed in the seething life : participated in the restoration of architectural monuments, have been organizing art schools. They were the teachers who trained the first generation of national painters, graphic artists, sculptors.

also paintings and graphic works, the exhibition includes gowns from traditional fabrics with geometric pattern. Comparison of paintings with the Uzbek textiles will demonstrate the uniqueness of the Russian avant-garde, was continued on the basis of Turkestan.

exhibition consists of more than 150 paintings, drawings and decorative art, as well as unique materials provided Russia's state archive of photo and video documents (Krasnogorsk).

Exhibition "Turkestan vanguard" in the State Museum of the East (Nikitsky Boulevard, 12a) will run until mid-April.

Source: orientmuseum.ru