State Tretyakov Gallery
December 19, 2012 - March 3, 2013
Krymsky Val, 10, Halls 80-82

tonight at the State Tretyakov Gallery Val presents "beautiful decoration" tells the story of elitism and kitsch in contemporary art.

«accept all" - Exhibition "beautiful decoration" picks motto of the exhibition "Target", organized by the Mikhail Larionov in 1913. Larionov called aesthetic balance in the rights of the originals and copies, samples of professional and naive art, elite and popular culture. Paphos Larionov was far ahead of its time and is the best match of the current situation after postmodernism.

• KUSTODIEV BM Beauty. 1921
  canvas. 72 x 89
  State Tretyakov Gallery
  Source: Press Release THG
• KONCHALOVSKY PP
  Family Portrait. "Misha, go for a beer." 1926
  canvas. 145 x 205,5
  State Tretyakov Gallery
  Source: Press Release THG

title of the exhibition, "decorated with a beautiful" comes from the name of the exhibition of the same name presented in a series of papers Valery Koshlyakov , which as the basis for his paintings improvisations used old theater photos with beautiful actors.

Art of the twentieth century, built on the avant-garde and kitsch opposition categorically rejected the "aesthetic beauty", usurped by mass culture, advertising industry and show business. This artist "vanguard" and even occasionally used to exploiting their aesthetic "kitsch." It is "kitsch" has become an essential resource for artistic modernization.

Chekrygin VN Danae canvas. 64.5 x 85 State Tretyakov Gallery Source: Press Release THG

MIRONENKO SI Goldobina. 1983 fiberboard temperature, metal (frame). 150.7 x 180,5 State Tretyakov Gallery Source: Press Release THG

Over time, many areas of the "vanguard" popularized and entered the sphere of aesthetic kitsch. Kitsch is superimposed on the vanguard, the vanguard for kitsch. Meetings, collided and the avant-garde and kitsch - Aesthetic antiesteticheskogo - still define the nerve of modern art.

Litichevsky G. Przewalski horse. 1988 object. Oil on canvas, wood, metal, fabric, temperature, PVA. Total size: 155 x 155 x 15 State Tretyakov Gallery Source: Press Release THG

Litichevsky G. Przewalski horse. 1988 object. Oil on canvas, wood, metal, fabric, temperature, PVA. Total size: 155 x 155 x 15 State Tretyakov Gallery Source: Press Release THG

The exhibition "Ornament beautiful" together "beginning" and "end", "original" and "copy" are compared with samples of the original primitives of high art.

The exhibition is divided into eight sections, which shows works created in the 1920s - 2000s. Topics sections associated with the motives that have traditionally operated in the popular culture and used by a wide audience, "beauty", "classic", "love", "nature", "oriental fantasy" and others.

Categories: 1. "Kitsch classic" 2. "First, kill garde!" 3. "Ancient Heritage" 4. "Kvazifolklor" 5. "Orientalism", 6. "The artists of Art", 7. "My favorite image", 8. "Back to nature».

NOVIKOV T. P. Dedication to Oscar Wilde. Brocade 1992, photo, application. 255 x 245 State Tretyakov Gallery Source: Press Release THG

NOVIKOV TP Dedication to Oscar Wilde. 1992. Fragment Source: Press Release THG

leitmotif of the exhibition will be examples of naive art, Provided Museum of Traditional Folk Art.

Koshlyak B. decorated with a beautiful number 2. 1989 photo paper, canvas, oil, enamel, black and white photo printing. 143,5 x 89,7 State Tretyakov Gallery Source: Press Release THG

FLOWERS D. «Mother! Kill garde! "2005 object. Wood, metal, glass, plastic, paint, mixed media. 41 x 214 x 127,5 State Tretyakov Gallery Source: Press Release THG

The "beautiful decoration" prepared the Tretyakov Gallery, in partnership with the "Gallery Veresov».

December 21 on the platform "Gallery Veres" opens the second part of the project, where curators go further in the development of the theme and finding the boundaries of kitsch, comparing the Russian portrait XVIII - XIX centuries with works by contemporary artists.

Exhibitors

AES F , Natalia Abalakova, Sergei Anufriev , Mary Arendt, Natasha Arendt, Helen Berg, Anna Brochet , Vinogradov and Vladimir and Alexander Vinogradov Dubossarskii , Sergei Vorontsov, the group« Blue Noses », Anatoly Zhigalov, Larissa Zvezdochetova , Zvezdochetov , Nikolai Kasatkin , Sergei Katran, Vyacheslav Koleychuk, and Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, , Natta Konysheva , Oleg Kotelnikov , Valery Koshlyakov , Ivan Kruglikov, Viktor Kuznetsov, Oleg Oleg Kulik , George Litichevsky, Gregory Maiofis , Vladislav Mamyshev (Monroe ), Sergei Mironenko , Nakhova , George Ostrecov , Arkady Petrov , George Pusenkoff , Alexander Savko , Evgeniy Semenov , Sergei Serp, Vitas Stasyunas, Rostand Tavasiev , Avdey Ter-Oganyan , Ilya Falkowski, Andrew Khlobystin Dmitry Tsvetkov, Sergei Chernov, Alexander Cords , Stas Shuripa, Sergei Shutov .

At the time of the exhibition renewed "Late Thursdays": The exhibition is open on Thursdays until 22.00, cash - up to 21.00.

Source : Press Release THG