The exhibition is part of an extensive collection of Roman Babichev — work Lentulov, Alexander Osmerkin, Konchalovsky, Labasa, Lebedev, Pimenov and others.

the Moscow Museum of modern art
Part I: 27 Sep — 20 Nov 2017
Part II: November 28, 2017 — on January 14 2018
Moscow, Petrovka, 25

Moscow Museum of modern art presents the project "Modernism without a manifest", which not only demonstrates the collection of Roman Babichev — large personal collection of native art, but said at this meeting a new word in the debate about the problem of modernism in Soviet art.

a Meeting of Roman Babichev, formed over the last 25-ти years and numbering about 4 000 domestic art of XX century, is truly unique. Works from the collection were repeatedly displayed at the exhibitions of the leading museums of Russia and served as the material for extensive art historical research. The results of the analytical work of the curatorial team formed the basis of 5-томного publication and exhibition project "Modernism without a manifest". Impressive amount of art files are not allowed to have more than one exposure. The first part of the project, opened in MMSI at Petrovka 25, says a research topic and presents it to a broad overview. The second part will be open track, November 28, and will show the audience one of the most interesting and yet insufficiently known to a wider artistic phenomenon of the study period — Leningrad school 1920-50-х years.

The authors call their view of Soviet art "a view from the symbolist perspective" and engage in dialogue with the "Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde" — largest project in recent years, formed the basis of a three-volume edition edited by Andrew Sarabyanova and Vasily Rakitin. The curators wonder whether modern art history in the unambiguous separation of the Soviet archive "vanguard" and "rearguard", and where and why is the distinction between these concepts. The first exhibition of the project presents more than 250 objects of national art — painting, sculpture, easel painting and architectural graphics, sketches of theatrical scenery — by famous artists (Aristarchus Lentulov, Petr Konchalovsky, Alexander Osmerkin, Nadezhda Udaltsova and many others), and "invisible" after 1932 artists that made the ultimate connection with the viewer for the sake of formal and plastic experiments. The exposition will show a variety of Soviet modernismo, the continuity between individual points in the history of Russian culture and will see a number of cross-cutting trends Dating back to the beginning of the century. Curatorial texts accompanying each of the 14 blocks of the exhibition, immerse us in the analytical work, and reveal the historical context of this phenomenon, showing its connection with the artistic search of the previous generations, and the impetus which he gavethe following.

Starting of modernism in Russian symbolists and the masters of the Union of Russian artists, the exhibition builds several parallel lines of succession and analyzes the dynamics and internal processes of the periods of Soviet art, which is considered to be the most conservative. The curators focused on the formal search of the post-revolutionary artists from graduates of VKhUTEMAS, including George Rublev, Leonid Tomasiewicz, Alexander Labas, Yuri Pimenov, to masters of the "severe style" and representatives of "unofficial" art. Continuing the logic of the collection, the exhibition reveals little-known formations of Soviet art: painting of the founder of the Leningrad school of book graphics of Vladimir Lebedev, watercolor studies of color and form Fyodor Platov. Paintings — the base material on which the authors build their narrative, — are complemented by sculpture, including works of the symbolists, Anna Golubkina, Aleksandr Matveev and Sergey Konenkov, a futuristic portrait of Bryusov Nina NISS-Гольдман and architectonic composition Meer Eisenstadt. A separate part of the exhibition will be assigned an easel and applied graphics, where until 1960-х years has evolved many discoveries of pre-war modernism. This topic among others will be shown the works of Antonina Sofronova, Boris golopolosov, Dmitry Mitrokhin. The other independent section of the exhibition will be devoted to works in the genre of architectural graphics to attract the attention of the viewer will be able variations of "paper architecture" — project of the Palace of Soviets by Boris Iofan.

the opening of the project "Modernism without a manifest" to coincide with the release of the first of five books about the collection of Roman Babichev. In the framework of the exhibition prepared by the educational and excursion program, and also the audio will be launched-гид.

Source: mmoma.ru