Today, April 27, at Galeev Gallery (B. Kozikhinsky AC, 19 6, p. 1) opens the exhibition "Memorial". Submitted drawing, painting, photographs and posters of wartime.

twentieth century like no other, is the century of confrontation. "Wiser" mankind has felt the new content of this ominous sign - "war". If the First World War was the "midwife" the world's artistic avant-garde - its development against a background of ruins, in the midst of building a new world order, a World War II - is a qualitatively new level of artistic reflection.

This exhibition presents a chronicle of the Patriotic War of 1941-1945 in the works of painters, graphic artists, photographers. Most of the exhibits to the public is unknown. The core of this exhibition - a personal collection of famous art critic, theorist of the Leningrad School, the author of many works of art of the twentieth century - Boris Davydovich Suris (1923-1991).

Series blockade pictures Solomon Yudovina is demonstrated for the first time. Chamber of form, they are striking at the power of artistic influence. Minimum and maximum of expression - these are the measure by which to judge the merits of these works. White space sheet Yudovina says a lot: about the hungry frost gradually emptying the Leningrad landscape of the imminent death of citizens of this great city. The human figures resemble mirages in the desert, they are desperate to find help in passing the endless space area Uritsky (now - the Palace).

Works Ushakova, Sulimo-Samuyllo , Vereisky , Mitrokhin , Vlasov and Kaplan - known Leningrad schedules - full of drama. Street Mitrokhin - a strange "gofmanianstvo, while difficult not to notice in the background is the figure of a soldier, it would seem, is not the main character's composition. Vlasov guerrillas in fact a boy, who took first in the hands of gun - the war makes us different criteria for adulthood. Blockade window Vereisky - a way of rising to the metaphor: space, latched crosses prokleek - as it is unthinkable for a long thoughtful look. Ushakovskii guys, birthmarks war, and the smoke over the ruins of Moscow Sulimo-Samuyllo possibly swallowed unknown victims - all signs and markings serious war Godin. The wagons Kaplan - eerie chronicle of the war, even away from the front. All this is written at the peak of opportunities and with the utmost sincerity.

• SOLOMON Yudovin
  siege series. 1941-1942
• D. CHERNOV
  Moscow 1942

series of posters Chebotareva is of considerable interest. At first glance, this "agitation" on the topic of the day. However, its inner meaning is much more difficult. It has been created in the period from the first weeks of the war, when the master culture actively involved in the process of ridicule, as it seemed quick Nazi claims before the October, 1941, Moscow convulsions, when the city plunged into chaos and predystericheskoe state in fear of putting the enemy. Chebotarev elected satirical discourse: images of Hitler and Goebbels relegated to the level of commonplace, almost circus, clowning. The artist is drawn to the practice of expressionism - generation of German art, announced the same Goebbels "degenerative". The posters have not been announced in the circulation, their conditioned password may have been if not adequate.

photographs of the war years - a special theme. The exhibition features vintage real masters: B. Smirnova, G. Selma , B. Kudoyarova , S. Ruskin , D. Chernoff, L. Velikzhanina. Boris Kudoyarov became widely known for his series of blockade of Leningrad plots - these rare pictures of small size have a considerable value, have a grain of artistic documentary character. Military fotohronikery often did not sign their stories, just because for us is equally important as a snapshot of the famous wizard, L. Velikzhanina, shoot a blown up a bridge near Naro-Fominsk, and photos of unknown correspondent who committed a panorama of the ruined and deserted Stalingrad in 1943.

• GEORGE Vereysky
  Blockade window. 1942
• Vasily Vlasov
  youth-partisan. 1942

Military poster - a factor raising the spirits of the troops and the tool impact on citizens. In Leningrad, this role has been assigned to community artists "Fighting Pencil". These posters can be seen in the shops of the factories and schools, in the dugouts and dugouts of the Leningrad Front, on ships in the Baltic and even on the sides of the front cars. The exhibition presents miraculously preserved specimens (analogues are stored in the timing and NLR). Other posters by major masters, such as , Kukryniksy , created in the earliest days of the war, one of them is dated June 24, 1941 - he went to the press on Tuesday after Sunday's invasion of Hitler's troops. Blockade series Autolithograph A. Pakhomov was exhibited at the famous exhibition of Leningrad artists in Moscow in 1941. These lists have become a symbol of courage unbroken Leningrad.

The exhibition will be presented a book of war memoirs BD Suris "Frontline Diary", prepared by the publishing house "Tsentrpoligraf. Written in an honest and fascinating, it tells about the everyday life of war. Boris Suris, later became a famous art historian, he served in the Army military translator of his truthfulness of the story is different, as well as a sincere, talented containing books of military action.

exhibition is open to the public from 28 April to 1 June 2010.

Source : Press Release Galeev galleries