October 21 will be a presentation of new cultural projects of the Institute of Russian painting and the gallery "Art Deco" and open an exhibition illustrating the first lecture programs

October 21 will be a presentation of a new cultural project of the Institute of Russian Art (Russian Art Institute) and the gallery "Art Deco" and open an exhibition illustrating the first lecture programs.

exposition will be more than 50 works by Russian and Western European artists of the XX century from private collections. Most of the works will be shown publicly for the first time in Russia. The exhibition includes works Natalia Goncharova and Leon Bakst , Boris Kustodiev and Sergei Sudeikin , Erte and Chiparusa . The exhibition is accompanied by documentary materials, the era of Art Deco.

The exhibition is divided into three parts. In the first presented the work of artists who collaborated with the famous "Russian ballet by Sergei Diaghilev . "Russian Ballet" served as a powerful impetus for the formation of Art Deco style. Diaghilev's Ballets show the West is not only an innovative dance, and creative experience of art associations in Russia: the scenery for Russian ballets were performed great Russian artist L. Bakst, A. Benoit , , B. Anisfeld , Roerich , S. Sudeikin, Dobuzhinsky , Natalia Goncharova. From 1909 to 1929 and the company "Russian Seasons" played in Europe and was inspired Art Deco style. The strength and originality of Russian culture, was struck by the Europeans. She brought new colors: yellow, orange and green colors have replaced the faded pastel tones and modern. Glides replaced expressive, and Russian and East European consciousness flipped images.

• Natalia Goncharova
  buffoons. Costume design for the ballet "The Golden Cockerel." 1913
• Natalia Goncharova
  Figure Women Flapper

The exhibition features several sketches Natalia Goncharova for Diaghilev ballets, among them figure costume for the ballet "The Golden Cockerel." Another interesting figure Goncharovskiy women Flapper - the symbol of Art Deco.

Another unique product, presented at the exhibition - a sketch for the ballet "The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian" by L. Bakst. The ballet was created for an exhibition in 1925 - an event that has become a culmination in the formation of Art Deco style. At the exhibition opening on June 16 Ida Rubinstein played in a golden suit of the archangel created by L. Bakst, the ballet troupe was dressed in costumes of Christian martyrs (a sketch for one of them and presented at the exhibition).

The second part of the exhibition can be called "The sculpture of bronze and ivory Art Deco style». This section is devoted to the area of art deco, where the influence of Russian culture and Russian ballet is particularly noticeable. In 1920 Dmitry Chiparus and other sculptors of the era created works based on Russian ballets. In many of these authors sought portrait resemblance with the Russian dancers.

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So, the sculpture of" Persian Dance ", presented at the exhibition, portrays Vaslav Nijinsky and Ida Rubinstein in the ballet" Scheherazade ". Preserved photographic images of the ballet masters and paintings of French Art Deco by Georges Barbier, representing Russian artists in the same clothes as in the sculpture Dmitry Chiparusa. The audience will see and several more sculptures.

The third section of the exhibition can be called « Art Deco in Russian art». This part of the exhibition is likely hypothesis or an attempt to the study of art works created in the era of Art Deco (1920-30-e). It displays works that can be called the embodiment of Art Deco style, such as a unique series of sketches of costumes famous artist Erte.

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Erte worked in Paris, creating the costumes for the leading dancers and in 1925 moved to Hollywood, where he collaborated with famous film studios. In 1925-1937 Erte has created more than a hundred covers for the magazine Harpers Bazzar and Vogue, lifted them to the height of a new phenomenon in art.

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In the third section of the exhibition also includes works by the artist Savely Sorin , actively worked in the West and little known in Russia. In Soviet times, his work is considered a model of bourgeois taste, but in fact, portraits of Sorin's similar with the neoclassical, salon line of Art Deco style. The works of Boris Kustodiev, which also includes a display, can be attributed to Art Deco in its pure form, but they are grotesque, easy and decorative inherent in its stylistic concept.

«Nude" Gregory Glyukmana , close to a powerful plastic constructions artist salon art deco Andre Lot, Tamara Lempicka . In a paper presented at the exhibition, neoclassical volumes combined with a hint of cubist interpretation of form and also submit a salon version of Art Deco. Experiment with the material as is typical for the era 1920: the picture is not written on the canvas and panel cherry wood.

opening series of lectures will be held October 26 in 19-00. Lectures will be delivered by leading experts on Russian art, invited by the Institute of Russian painting. Schedule of lectures will be published in October.

exhibition will run at: Luzhnetskaya nab. 2 /4, Bldg. 4. Opening will take place October 21 at 19.00.

Source : Press Release Gallery "Art Deco»