The exhibition "Leningrad Collection", which includes 20 works from the collections of the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg and about 270 works from the collection of the gallery «KGallery», presents works by Leningrad nonconformist 1960s

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State Museum of St. Petersburg
April 24 - September 22, 2013
Rumyantsev Mansion
St. Petersburg, Promenade des Anglais, 44

The State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg (Rumyantsev Mansion) the exhibition "Leningrad Collection" broadly representative of the Leningrad unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century. The exhibition shows more than 300 works by artists of the Leningrad underground - participants of the first exhibitions of unofficial art as well as works by masters of the so-called Moscow school of the period. Composition solution exposition - A dense "Tapestry" Hanging pictures - like apartment exhibitions 1960-80-ies, which have become a symbol of the era of non-conformism.

The exhibition includes 20 works from the collection of the State Museum of History St. Petersburg and about 270 works from the collection of the gallery «KGallery», formed on the basis of the famous private collection AN Sidorova and GA Volkova.

period of "thaw" of the late 1950s - early 1960s was marked by unprecedented creative enthusiasm in a variety of areas, including in the field of fine arts. It is no coincidence that period in the artistic life of the country is often called the "second Russian avant-garde».

in Leningrad in the 1960s and 70s there was a lot of art schools and associations, such as the range of A. D. Aref'eva , B. Sterligova , OA Sidlina school, a group of Shemyakin «Leningrad", the circle M. Kondratiev and others. One after another, opened the exhibition of unofficial art.

Exhibitions in the Palace of Culture. I. Strip (22-24 December 1974) and DC "Nevsky" (10-20 September 1975) gave the name of a new turn in the Leningrad Fine Arts 1970 - "Gazanevsky culture».

In the 1980s, large-scale exhibition of nonconformist art were held in Leningrad Palace of Youth (1987-1988), Central Exhibition Hall "Manege" (1988-1989) and in the exhibition center "Fairgrounds" at the Harbor (1989).

The exhibition at the Rumyantsev Mansion widely presented works by Leningrad artists of 1960 non-conformist '90s, including the participants in these shows. Among them A. D. Aref , Anatoly A. N. Basin , A. Belkin , G. Bogomolov , AN Vasiliev, R.Vasmi , B. S. Viderman , FV Volosenkov, Zharkov , Anatoly A. S. Zaslavsky , G. Mr. Zubkov , K. Ljukshin , AN Manusov, AA Maslov, Vladimir V. Ovchinnikov , N. Figurina , N. Shahin , MM Shemyakin, G. Tserush and others.

Complementing the exhibition of photographs by GS Prikhodko, depicting the events of the artistic life of the 1970s.

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