December 1, 1962 Moscow saw Belutin of Elia, Robert Falk, Nikolai Andronov, Pavel Nikonov, Ernst Neizvestny, Yuri Sobolev, Hulot Sooster and others. Saw them and the members of the Politburo led by Khrushchev

Victor Mironov Nude. 1962
cardboard dubbed in tempera on canvas. 77 x 107
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"Manezh", 1-12 December 2012
Moscow, Manege Square, 1

December 1, 2012 marks the 50th anniversary Manezh exhibition. Over the years it has become a common name for the first two quite different in many ways the opposite phenomenon - the exhibition "30 Years of the Moscow Union" and shelter for the Manege exhibition attic studio training at the Moscow City Committee of Graphic Artists, led by Ely Belyutin .

Anniversary Moscow exhibition by December 1, worked for a few weeks, but moved here belyutintsev literally overnight. This exhibition has become an event - perhaps one of the most important - in the history of relations between the authorities and intellectuals in the Soviet Union in the twentieth century. The glory of it to ensure the visit of Nikita Khrushchev, who fell just at the December 1 - or rather, his famous dressing and "homosexuals" - so he called belyutinskoy artists studio. Donated by Khrushchev and works with the main exhibition - paintings Robert Falk , Nikolai Andronov , Pavel Nikonov , but the main event took place on the second floor of an arena.

Belyutin Ely (1925-2012) opened his studio in 1948, in 1950 on the basis of its form another, called " a new reality. " November 26, 1962 Studio exhibition opened at the Taganka Theater, in the Teacher's House on Big Communist, 9 (now - st. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn). The next morning the foreign correspondents made about her stories, the news that the Soviet Union show abstract art spread through global channels. The story of this work in the Arena like a detective. According to one theory, the idea of ​​the show at the Studio Arena occurred after the Cuba issue of abstract exhibition in Moscow was asked Anastas Mikoyan. Work has already been analyzed by artists in their homes during the night brought in Manezh. Some experimental stuff myself Belyutin replaced more "calm" of the same time - in particular, the scenery and views of the city taken during the summer steamship travel the Studio.

abstract art - in the classical sense - was not. Another thing is that, as written once Boris Slutsky, "mankind is divided into two teams, the command" attention "and the command" at ease "." Belyutinckoy studio work, and invited to participate in the exhibition, "non-belyutintsev» Ernst Unknown , Yuri Sobolev , Hulot Sooster and others - were not made at the command" attention ».

December 1, 1962 was the day of opening and closing of the exhibition. Spacing in the Arena initiated a series of meetings with the creative intelligentsia, fighting began a new round of abstractionism old struggle against formalism, "thaw" is rapidly waning. Next famous exhibition of unofficial artists in the Soviet Union came to be known as "Bulldozer».

It took half a century. Reason to remember the legendary show and its participants - Zhutovsky , Ernst Neizvestny, elder belyutinskoy studio Faith Transfiguration , Leonid Rabicheva , Philippi , the Innu Shmelev. After just 50 years, many of the details were forgotten, and many things went, mostly in private collections or from the country. Looking at today's works shown half a century ago in the Arena, it is difficult to understand what caused the anger of Khrushchev and his entourage. Maybe even a half century is also difficult to understand the severity of today's debate?

exhibition space of the exhibition "The same in the Arena" is a pavilion, divided, half a century ago, three small rooms . In one - a showcase of documents, photographs, diaries, which give an idea of ​​the context of the Manezh exhibition as well as the professional biographies of the participants after the Manezh. These artists shape and define the cultural environment. Leonid Rabichev - by Aeroflot logo and "Soviet Railways", the Kremlin Museums and "Badaevskie brewery." Vera Transfiguration - the artist six-volume encyclopedia "Life of Animals" and almost all textbooks in science Soviet years. Maya Filippova worked in the film - in particular, was responsible for the costumes for the film "Major Whirlwind».

In the next room - the picture with the Manege exhibition. On his film "career" Leonid Metchnikoff looked pencil wherever spat Khrushchev. Work, traces of which are lost, played on the slides. Slides, thus becoming stage of historical distance to the events of 1962. As in 1962, accompanied by a replica of Khrushchev - but now they provoke not only the "abstract" paintings, but also the audience who become participants in audio installation.

Finally, on the front wall, already at the exit of the pavilion, were shadows of artists from the show in 1962, and, coming out of the pavilion, the viewer leaves there in the story, and his shadow, too.

December 5 will be a round table discussion "Art and Power. On the 50th anniversary of the defeat of the Manezh exhibition. " Starts at 16.00.

Source : Press Release MMSI