The first exhibition was opened in the new Museum Anatoly Zverev
ARTinvestment.RU   01 июня 2015

Private Museum Anatoly Zverev at 2 Tverskaya-Yamskaya street, 20-22, p. 2, was opened by the exhibition of 40 outstanding works of the artist from the collections of Natalia Opaleva, George Costakis and other private collectors

Museum AZ, from may 27 2015
Moscow, 2-ya Tverskaya-Yamskaya street, 20-22, p. 2

27 may 2015 in Moscow opened the AZ Museum — Museum of the artist Anatoly Zverev, one of the most significant figures of the Moscow artistic life of the second half of the twentieth weka@

the AZ Museum Building is located in the centre of Moscow, 2-nd Tverskaya-Yamskaya street, 20-22, p. 2. The AZ Museum — private Museum to a single artist. Its creators are a collector and philanthropist Natalia Opaleva and art curator Pauline Lobachevsky@

the Museum's collection of over 1500 works of Anatoly Zverev and over 500 works of artists of his circle, nonconformists (Plavinsky, Nemukhin, Rabin, Krasnopevtsev and many others). In the collection was inspired by a personal collection Natalia Opaleva and the gift Aliki Costakis — daughter of a famous collector George Costakis, who gave the Museum more than 600 works of art and archival materials from the collection of his father. George Costakis appreciated Zvereva and called it "the first Russian expressionist".

the First exhibition dedicated to the personality of his art, his actual biography and life, surrounded by legends and myths. Three floors of the Museum are self-portraits Zvereva, the circle of his closest friends and patrons, which he depicted in a series of masterly portraits, and, finally, the portraits of his lover and Muse — Oksana Aseeva. Viewers show only 40 works, "each of them was perceived as a diamond," said the founder of the Museum Natalia Opaleva. Some of them — from personal collection Polevoy and the George Costakis, some taken from others kollekcionerov@

the AZ Museum is not just a Museum to a single artist, it is a kind of art laboratory, in space where creativity Zvereva reveals new facets, finding new meanings and stories. The AZ Museum offers a completely new format for the existence of the Museum exhibition, which was called "isothermal". "The idea was to make a single dramatic art — exhibitions, films, video-art, books and music for each project," said Natalia Opaleva@

Exhibitions will be rotated, alternately "showing" certain cycles of paintings and graphics Zvereva, each time developing a new narrative about the artist's legacy. And when topics directly connected with the work Zvereva, runs out, the Museum will show the work of other artists, but a relationship with nim@

Sources: museum-az.com, museum.ru, mosday.ru, artinvestment.ru