The State Tretyakov Gallery (Sculpture Park) opens an exhibition of 115-th anniversary of the artist

TG, May 22 - July 29, 2012
Moscow, Krimsky Val, 10 rooms, № 80-82

Exhibition dedicated to 115th anniversary of famous Tatar artist Tanks Idrisovich Urmanche (1897-1990) , is the audience of more than 120 works from the collections of Kazan and Moscow museums and private collections - the State Museum of Oriental Art, the Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan National Museum of Tatarstan Republic, the National Cultural Centre "Kazan", Marjani Foundation (Moscow), Galeev Gallery (Moscow).

Urmanche tanks - the first professional Tatar artist: painter, sculptor , muralist, who worked for the theater. He managed to make a huge contribution to the development of the main types of fine art in Tatarstan, in many ways defined the formation of Tatar fine art in the 1920s and its development during the second half of the twentieth century.

Urmanche Bucky was born in the family of Imam and embroiderers, from his childhood interest in folk art, but because of its origin, was unable to attend art school. As a young man worked as a miner Donbas workers Nadezhdinskii factories in the Urals, a teacher in Tambov, in the First World War he served in Central Asia. Only in 1919 Urmanche enrolled in free art workshops in Kazan and later transferred to Moscow in VHUTEMAS, where he studied sculpture at the A. Golubkina , painting - in A. Shevchenko . Urmanche belongs to a generation of young Soviet artists vhutemasovtsev, to whom in the early 1920s, had the task of forming a new artistic language. Link to the Solovki camp (1929-1933) interrupted his creative biography, but returned to Moscow, Urmanche participated in major exhibitions of the period, the design of the pavilions-Union Agricultural Exhibition. A large contribution Urmanche introduced to the arts and arts education in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, where he lived after the war.

• riding sailboats.
  1929 Oil on canvas. 103 x 80
  Collection of the Pushkin Museum of RT
  Source: press. tretyakov.ru
• TANKS Urmanche
  Portrait Zhandarbekovoy balls.
  1943 Oil on canvas. 149 x 108
  Collection of the Pushkin Museum of RT
  Source: press. tretyakov.ru

TANKS Urmanche Almaatinka at sunset. 1948 Oil on canvas. 50 x 70 Collection Fund Marjani (Moscow) Source: press.tretyakov.ru

TANKS Urmanche Vintage. 1958 Oil on canvas. 143 x 195 Collection of the Pushkin Museum of RT Source: press. tretyakov.ru

Urmanche Tanks - the identity of the universal, he clearly distinguished himself not only in art but also in other areas of artistic culture and the humanities: poetry, music, linguistics, art history. He played an important role in the formation of several generations of artists Tatar, in communion, and the return of the Tatar community in its spiritual roots.

creating new art for the Tatar people, based on the achievements of European art and culture, always Urmanche remained deeply national artist for whom the concept was not limited to the national choice of plot and theme, but enriched the common quest for different types of Tatar art - crafts, calligraphy - the methods and techniques, their use in painting, drawing, sculpture, bringing the structure of the product traditional principles of form, color, rhythm, melody, the embodiment of what is called the national spirit.

Urmanche In the work occupies an important place poem "Shurale" Tatar national poet, literary critic and essayist G.Tukay . The poem was written based on the Tatar folk tales. Shurale - one of the most popular characters of the national mythology, the occupant, and in a sense, and the owner of the forest. And the fat, and Urmanche, keeping the specifics of fairy tales, filled with colorful details and it sounds full of deep meaning and national color. Urmanche repeatedly turned to illustrating these themes. His drawings are distinguished by subtle humor and mastery of line.

TANKS Urmanche Illustration for the poem-tale G.Tukay "Shurale." 1980 Paper, ink, pen, brush and watercolor. 64.8 x 43,2 Collection of the Pushkin Museum of RT Source: press.tretyakov.ru

In the works Urmanche later period under the influence of changing the national art and painting, there is a special decorative effect. For these works is characterized by clarity and simplicity of construction, the use of clean and very bright, loud colors. In recent work, performed mostly in tempera, the artist often introduces an image of tissue with an ornament, a work reminiscent of the Tatar national carpets.

sculpture occupies a special place in his Urmanche. It is considered the top of the Tatar plastic, but it came to sculpture Urmanche unusual way. The institute, he studied sculpture professionally, and then nearly forty years, it has not worked. In Kazan, Moscow, Alma-Ata, Tashkent - wherever he worked, he was known as a painter and graphic artist, but not as a sculptor. At the sixty-fifth year of life Urmanche rediscover this form of art. For three decades he has created over 150 sculptures. At all elevations, even some idealization, he created the images always retain their individuality. In general, the sculpture Urmanche distinguish emotion, the wealth of poetic associations, skill plastic composition. Loved the material master - Ural marble, but the most interesting, original works he created in the tree.

Heritage Urmanche has been demonstrated in the Tretyakov Gallery in 2005, when the project "Golden Map of Russia" is the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan. But only now, for the first time in Moscow, Bucky Urmanche creativity exhibited in this fully.

Source : press release of the State Tretyakov Gallery