Today in the Tretyakov Gallery and Sculpture Park Sculpture Exhibition opens dedicated idealized notions of Soviet-era 1930-50s

TG, April 10 - January 2013
Moscow, Krimsky Val, 10 , room number 24

now in the Tretyakov Gallery on the Crimean shaft opens an exhibition of sculpture, "The joy of work and happiness of life. The ideals of a bygone era ».

Tretyakov Gallery continues to acquaint the public with little-known works from the collections of the Gallery. Chamber exhibition, which features about 20 sculptures, is devoted to idealized notions of Soviet-era 1930s and 50s. More than half of these works are a wide audience for the first time. The sculpture features clearly reflect the official artistic taste of the Stalin era. Work I. Frikh H. Hara (1893-1978), G. I. Motovilova (1884-1963), M. Manizer (1891-1966) gives a vivid image of the Soviet myths, like the joy of working life and happiness.

ZINAIDA BAZHENOVA Portrait of a Hero of Socialist Labor Lola Irbutaevoy. 1949 Majolica, wood, painted underglaze. 50.5 x 50x 26,5 State Tretyakov Gallery Source: Press Release TG

Most of the works in the exhibition belongs to the 1930s and reflects the formation of a "pantheon" of new characters and a classic of Soviet iconography of the Stalinist period. "Metallurg" GI Motovilov (1936, bronze) was the "new classics" of the Soviet sculpture, securing communications with the heroism of our classical antiquity. This work was exhibited at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937 inside the pavilion, which was topped by a sculpture B. Mukhina «The Worker and Collective Farm Girl". It is no accident GI Motovilov some time later headed the sculpture workshop of the Volga-Don canal, the decoration is applied to the field of ideological rather than functional.

semantic center of the exhibition - in the art of majolica panels and . Frikh H. Hara, "" Life has become better, life has become merrier (Feast of the Azerbaijani farm) "(1939. 153 x 265). A landmark work of the era, it is at the same time, falls out of the usual ideas about the discovery of Soviet sculpture first subway stations. IG-Chara Frikh not received a formal art education and a closer primitive than the academic tradition, can be roughly compared with H . Pirosmani . In the panel "Life has become better, life has become merrier" decorativism color and peculiar folk culture, a typical refresh and "nomenclature" storyline farm holidays. The last time the sculpture was shown at the solo exhibition of IG-Chara Frikh more than 20 years ago. During the restoration of the exhibition specialists Galleries relieved by panels of gypsum layers and collected again.

SARRA Lebedev Miner. 1937 Bronze State Tretyakov Gallery Source: Press Release TG

MARINA RYNDZYUNSKAYA Young Stakhanovite cotton fields Mamlakat Nahangova. Granite 1940. 225 x 71 x 89 The State Tretyakov Gallery Source: Press Release TG

portrait genre in Soviet art has always played a significant role. Busts of SD Lebedeva show the true heroes of 1930 -s - the founder of a mass movement of innovators AG Stakhanov and the famous test pilot VPChkalov. Sculpture MD Ryndzyunskoy (1877-1946) «Young Stakhanovite cotton fields Mamlakat Nahangova" (1940. Granite, height 225) - an example of iconography of the "best people in the country." addiction to the archaic art of Egypt and Assyria did not restrict M . D. Ryndzyunskuyu in the choice of today's stories. However, critics have imputed to her guilt, and conditional styling in the interpretation of the image.

exhibition is supplemented by later works, which are shown for the first time: sculptures ZV Bazhenova (1905-1987)« Portrait of the Hero of Socialist Labor Irbutaevoy Lola "(1949. Majolica) and" Jambul " (1949. Majolica) and a small ceramic work of a famous sculpture of Joseph IM Chaikoff (1888-1979 ) "Swimmer" (1959. Porcelain).

exhibition in the interest of modern audiences to a "Soviet classicism».

Source : TG Press Release