Today in the Central Exhibition Hall "Manege" exhibition opens graphics twentieth century Russian writer Alexei Mikhailovich Remizov (1877, Moscow - 1957, Paris)

"Manezh", April 16 - May 22, 2013
Moscow, Manege Square, 1

Today the Central Exhibition Hall "Manege" exhibition opens graphics twentieth century Russian writer Alexei Remizov. The project marked the beginning of a long-term cooperation of the State Literary Museum and the Museum and exhibition association "Manezh". Exhibition from the Museum of Literature in Moscow - the rich and varied, will be the continuation of the project MBO "Manezh", "Artist's Book" devoted to the study of the intersection of literary, book and art culture.

• Alexei Remizov
  Our journey abroad and from Berlin as we turnuli
  Book with glued documents (1921-1923 years) and handwritten commentary AM Remizov. Paris
  Archives of the State Literary Museum Folder
  № 57 Source: Press Release "Manezh»
• Alexei Remizov
  Self. From the album "The contemporaries and ancestors»
  Berlin, 1922
  Paper, ink, pen, brush
  Source: Press Release "Manezh»

Exhibition "Alexei Remizov. Return "to present a graphic legacy of one of the great writers of the twentieth century on the basis of its archive of more than fifty years have kept the family in France Reznikoff. In 2013 the archive was purchased by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation to the State Literary Museum.

Alexei Mikhailovich Remizov (1877, Moscow - 1957, Paris) was not only one of the best writers of the stylists of his time, but also an original artist whose creativity admired Marc Chagall , Wassily Kandinsky , Pablo Picasso ... Graphic heritage Remizov already has become the subject of exhibition projects, but the man shows Remizov the artist was not so much. Figures writer exhibited in 1934 in Czechoslovakia, in 1985 - in the U.S., in 1992 and 1993 - in St. Petersburg.

• Alexei Remizov
  Nozdryov Interrogation From the album "Russia very lengthy state »
  Paris, 1950
  Paper, ink, pen
  Source: Press Release" Manezh »
• Alexei Remizov
  Ivashka. Paris, 1941
  Paper, ink, pen
  Source: Press Release "Manezh»

Yuri Pavlovich Annenkov Yuri wrote: "Remizov certainly could draw like Serov , as Repin , or as Malyavin . But they did not inspire his muse. <...> Remizov created childlike, poluzaumnye graphic phantasmagoria, surprised me with a deep toy graphical prowess. He painted wonderful and bizarre. Its linear and pyatnovye (and often - in color) combinations, rich dense space-filling pattern, were archaic and ornamental character and evokes a feeling of mystery. Remizov drew constantly <...> Graphics Remizov passed in writing, and the writing of his, who took roots in the Old Slavonic letter gossip turned into calligraphic symphony of angles, squiggles, strokes <...> ».

As the foremost authority on the works of Alla Remizov Grachev, "the first principles of aesthetic education Remizov steel of ancient architecture, icon painting, ancient church chants. His mother was fond of calligraphy and gave her love for her son. Passion for drawing began as a child. In the mid-1900s, he studied Remizov textbooks and scholarly works on paleography and subsequently seized various types of ancient letters, studied Glagolitic. Remizov illustrated his stories and other writings, as well as their dreams, combining illustrations in numerous albums ».

AM Remizov. Photo. Paris, 1950 Source: Press Release "Manezh»

Alexei Remizov leaf from the album "Siberian tale." 1940 paper on cardboard, ink, watercolor, gouache, pen, brush Source: Press Release "Manezh»

The exhibited materials preserved by Natalia Reznikov (1902-1992) - a translator, assistant, attorney and executrix Remizov, to care for him in the last years of his life. Subsequently archive of the writer kept her children and grandchildren.

The exposition "Alexei Remizov. Return "includes more than 140 works of graphic art (illustrations portraits, sketches), collages," construction ", as well as manuscripts, books, albums, documents, autographs, personal belongings of the writer. All of them are on display for the first time in Russia. State Literary Museum The exhibition publication, "Alexei Remizov. Return ", which represents more than twenty portraits of Russian writers of the album AM Remizov 'contemporaries and ancestors».

Source : press release CEH " Manege »