the Royal Academy of arts
11 Feb — on April 17 2017
6 Burlington Gardens, London

the Exhibition called "Revolution: Russian art 1917-1932" acquaint the British public with the masterpieces from the collections of the State Tretyakov gallery and State Russian Museum. The exhibition devoted to the works of the first 15 years of Soviet power, the years of maximum freedom of expression, and includes not only famous in the West Russian avant-garde, but also other works by various artistic movements of this period, including the then nascent socialist realism.

In 1932, the walls of the Russian Museum a legendary exhibition of Russian art. Art critic and art historian Nikolai Punin 15-летию revolution introduced in the hundred rooms of the Museum more than 2,000 works by the best artists of his time — Pavel Filonov, Vladimir Tatlin, etc. the Whole hall was devoted to Malevich. The artist himself oversaw the hanging of their works. For the first time since 1932, at London's Royal Academy of arts will attempt to accurately reconstruct the exposition of the Russian Museum, where early Suprematist works side by side with the later works of farm-cycle, etc. in London will carry more than 30 works by Kazimir Malevich — architectones, painting, drawings.

the Discovery for the British public promise to be works of Kuzma Petrov-Водкина and Pavel Filonov. These authors, almost all of the legacy which is kept in Russian museums, on the West, known only to specialists.

in Addition to the exhibitors of the exhibition in the Russian Museum, the British side asked to expand the list of names of Wassily Kandinsky and Marc Chagall, to the time of the exhibition of 1932 already emigrated from the country.

Painting and drawing complement the photographs, sculptures, films of Eisenstein and others, propaganda posters. Even recreated the interior of a communal apartment typical of the period.

the Exhibition will be divided into 7 thematic sections — "salute to the leader", "Eternal Russia", "the Fate of the peasants", "Man and machine".

the curator of the exhibition Natalia Murray (Natalia Murray, lecturer in Russian art at London's Courtauld Institute of art: "I wanted to make an exhibition [1932] in the walls of the Royal Academy, to show the contrast of classic interiors and Soviet art. Together with my colleague Ann Dumas we have begun work on a large-scale exhibition that will bring together not only the vanguard, but also artists a variety of other areas that developed in Russia at the time".

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources: theartnewspaper.com, royalacademy.org.uk, ria.ru, artinvestment.ru