In the Gallery of art of Europe and America XIX–XX centuries will soon open the exhibition "Sculptors and livre d'artiste", curated by a renowned collector "artist's books" Boris Friedman

"the Sculptors and the livre d'artiste"
the Pushkin Museum. A. S. Pushkin
26 April — on 2 September 2018
Gallery art in Europe and America of XIX–XX centuries

State Museum of fine arts named after A. S. Pushkin in the framework of the XVIII international festival of arts "Chereshnevy Les" in a week show 22 edition of the livre d'artiste fifteen major sculptors: Arman, Jean ARP, Michel Guinot, Alberto Giacometti, Alexander Calder, Henri Laurens, Aristide Maillol, Marino Marini, Henry Moore, Mimmo Paladino, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Auguste Rodin, Eduardo Chillida, Christo, Ossip Zadkine.

the display will be books from the collections of George gens and Boris Fridman.

Livre d'artiste — is a special type of edition of literary text with illustrations, in the form of prints — lithographs, etchings, woodcuts, etc. "artist's Book" usually has a circulation of from a dozen to several hundred copies. Such books as independent works of art printed on special types of paper and decorate in a special way: nabrasyvanii sheets, carton, box. In most cases, such publications signed by the author, artist or publisher.

in addition to books, the exhibition shows sculptures, created by these same authors.

In a separate exhibition space will be located more books by Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti. Of great interest is the publication of Henry Moore's "Elephant Skull", in which he created a magnificent series of etchings. Source for them was donated by sculpture at the time, the skull of an elephant. The book is a series of lithographs by Alberto Giacometti of Paris were published after the author's death. It can be considered the anthem of the artist's beloved city.

Opening for the Russian audience will be a work in the genre of livre d'artiste Michel Gino and Eduardo Chillida. Graphics are the last will be first shown in Russia. By Chillida, being the largest Spanish sculptor of the twentieth century, many worked in the genre of livre d'artiste has created over twenty different graphic series. The exhibition presents the first and last work Cility in the livre d'artiste. With the graphic series of Michel, but the Russian audience is familiar with the exhibition "Iliazd. XX century Ilya Zdanevich. From private and Museum collections in Russia and France", which was held in the Pushkin Museum. A. S. Pushkin in 2015. Sculptures of the master, viewers will see for the first time.

the opening of the exhibition prepared a catalogue with detailed descriptions and images of all works in the exhibit. It published an article about a previously unknown manuscript Ossip Zadkine, dated 1945, shows fragments of manuscripts and their translations into Russian language.

Source: press-релиз GMII