Today, May 28, at 19.00 in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Petrovka, 25) will open a retrospective exhibition of Alexandra Exter .

Alexandra Exter - one of the" Amazons "and the brightest stars of Russian avant-garde. She was a constant participant of almost all the major exhibitions of new art - community of "Jack of Diamonds" and "Union of Youth», «№ 4" and "A Streetcar B", "Top", "5 × 5 = 25" and others. Advanced Russian art of the beginning of XX century is unthinkable without the works of this artist.

with the name of Alexandra Exter is associated principal direction in the history of Russian art, as kubofuturizm - a very special "Russian" version of futurism, the finder resulting in numerous abstract compositions, still lifes and townscapes. It Exter has often been a conductor of new ideas in Russian art, is it for many years the domestic audience acquainted with the latest Parisian Avant-Garde. Long time and kept living in Paris, being on friendly terms with Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, Robert and Sonia Sonia Delaunay , Guillaume Apollinaire and many other colorful figures of the era, Exter promoted their work in Russia. And not only promoted but also their art in many ways points the way to adapt their discoveries by Russian artists.

figure Alexandra Exter is inseparable from the triumphs of the Russian theatrical stage: execution of its performances at the Moscow Chamber Theater - " Famira Kifared "," Salome, "" Romeo and Juliet "- true masterpieces, marked a stunning beauty of the costumes and scenery. In the history of art and entered her famous Martian costumes for the movie Jacob Protazanov "Aelita". In addition, Exter has proved itself as the author of sophisticated projects and a woman's dress uniform for the Red Army.

Unlike many of his contemporaries and fellow new art at Exeter so far not been a serious show. It is a serious, scientific and reasoned, with clearly developed concept, and most importantly - the exhibition, which fully demonstrated the highest would be versatile art artist. The project of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art - the first retrospective of Alexandra Exter, valuing the creative discovery of the leading representative of the Russian avant-garde. The exhibition will include easel works, drawings, sketches of costumes and scenery, as well as the unique author's manuscript books (livres manuscrits), which has never before been exhibited. For the first time will be well represented theater Alexandra Exter - about 60 works from the collection of the State Central Theatre Museum named AABahrushin.

Creativity Alexandra Exter belongs on an equal footing between Russia and France, and the legacy artist is divided mainly between the two countries. Beginning with the 1910-s Exter participated in many landmark exhibitions in Paris, just before his last days was exhibited at the Paris "Salon of the Independents. About the art of Alexandra Exter wrote the eminent French critics - Guillaume Apollinaire, Waldemar George, Maurice Raynal, and others. Therefore, the project is now in the Year of Russia - France, is particularly important and timely. Paris during the creation of Exter (after 1925) has never been fully represented in Russia, and the current retrospective will enable viewers to get acquainted with some of the works of these years.

• Alexandra Exter
  woman with a fish. 1932-1934, oil on canvas; 92,5 × 73,5 Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
• Alexandra Exter
  Ballerina. The sketch to the formulation of Spanish dances. 1918-1919, Cardboard, gouache, pencil, gold, aluminum paint, paper labels. 52,7 × 34, Yaroslavl Art Museum, Yaroslavl

curator of the exhibition - George F. Kovalenko, Dr Habil, Head of the department of Russian art of XX century Institute of Arts and the chief researcher of the State Institute of Art. Kovalenko - one of the leading biographers of Exeter and a leading expert in her work, the author of two books and numerous articles published in Russia and abroad.

Design exhibition developed Boris Asafovich Messerer , famous artist and set designer, president of the Association of Artists Theatre, Film and Television in Moscow.

The exhibition scale catalog, consisting of monographs, publications of previously unknown manuscripts and archival materials, a bibliography, a list of exhibitions, scientific apparatus and the fine series - reproductions of works by Alexandra Exter.

works for the exhibition provided:

Astrakhan State Picture Gallery. Dogadin, Astrakhan,
Vologda Regional Art Gallery, Vologda,
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow,
State Museum-Reserve "Rostov Kremlin, Rostov,
State Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin, Moscow,
State Museum of Theatre, Music and Film of Ukraine, Kiev,
State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg,
State Central Theatre Museum. AABahrushin, Moscow,
Krasnodar Regional Art Museum. F. Kovalenko, Krasnodar,
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow,
National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kiev,
Nizhnetagilsky Municipal Museum of Fine Arts, Nizhny Tagil,
Russian State Archive Literature and Art, Moscow,
Saratov Art Museum. AN, Saratov,
Serpukhovskoy Historical and Art Museum, Serpukhov,
Yaroslavl Art Museum, Yaroslavl,
private collectors in Moscow.

The exhibition is open to the public from May 29 to August 22, 2010.

As part of the exhibition will be held series of lectures and round tables (Moderators: Andrei Tolstoy (MMSI) and George Kovalenko):

May 31, 18.00 - lecture by curator George Kovalenko, "The study of creativity Alexandra Exter»;

June 16, 18.00 - Round table "A. Exter and Parisian avant-garde 1910-s»;

June 23 , 18.00 - Round table "A. Exter and Russian Constructivism»;

14 Jul., 18.00 - Round table "The film" Aelita, and A. Exter ».

lectures and round tables made of provisional accreditation.

Source : Press Release MMSI