"Alexey Shchusev: outline of the future" in the gallery "vellum"
ARTinvestment.RU   16 ноября 2018

The exhibition is organized with the participation of the State Museum of architecture. A. V. Shchusev

"Alexey Shchusev: outline of the future"
27 Nov — 16 Dec 2018
Gallery "vellum"
Moscow, St. Prechistenka, 30/2, gallery-center "Artifact"
Visit: daily from 12:00 to 20:00

Press-показ: 26 November from 15:00 to 18:00
Opening: 26 November 19:00

26 Nov gallery "vellum" opens the exhibition "Alexey Shchusev: outline of the future" dedicated almost "invisible" part of the creative work of the outstanding Soviet architect — personally made his sketches, sketches that preceded the detailed development of architectural designs. The exhibition will be supplemented with a small graphic artwork — contemporaries Shchusev, who worked together with him were members of joint exhibitions and projects: Yevgeny Lansere, Alexander Benois, Mikhail Nesterov, Alexandra Exter, Yakov Chernikhov. The exhibition will feature approximately 50 works from the collection of the art historian, head of the gallery "vellum" Lubov Agafonova, GMUER them. A. V. Shchusev and private collections. In particular, the exhibition will include sketches of projects of the Moscow Kazan station and wooden mausoleum of Lenin, the sketch for the design of administrative building on Lubyanka square, "Palace of the Soviets. The term" and other sketches and tracings Shchusev. The work of Yakov Chernikhov will be presented entitled "Suprematist drawing" 1920-х and entitled "Methods images" 1914-1928.

completed projects of A. V. Shchusev, as pre-revolutionary (e.g., the Cathedral of the Intercession of the blessed virgin Mary Marfo-Мариинской of the monastery and the Kazan railway station) and Soviet (narkomzem building, the hotel "Moscow", metro station "Komsomolskaya-кольцевая") are perfectly familiar to any resident of the capital, and the most famous of his work — the Lenin mausoleum on red square has become not only a concise and stately tomb, but also a global symbol of the Soviet Union and the Communist idea.

the Designs of the architect is embodied by engineers and builders working drawings — ordinary members of the project workshops. Therefore, it is valuable few extant graphic works, made by the hand of Alexei Viktorovich. That they fully reflect and creativity, and technical skills of an outstanding painter, and something called way, not just trying to reproduce the appearance of even only conceived of the building, but also appeal to the feelings and thoughts of those who later will see the realisation of the construction.

Brilliantly detailed sketches Shchusev — is a kind of "window to the future", an attempt to predict and offer the people (and of course, the leadership of the country) it will look like the environment in which they will live and work for future generations. And that future should be designed, not trusting his natural course of things, no doubt then no. Essentially, every art of the first third of the twentieth century — is an artvisionary; moreover, it is almost always the "Declaration of intention" to create and properly execute a New World.

Range examined for this styles ranged from the avant-garde retrospection and Shchusev was ready to offer any solution that is both modernist and converted in the distant past where one would get and use them in the future, all the best that was when-то created by mankind.

As by force of circumstances, and thanks to his personal qualities, Alexey Viktorovich Shchusev was the author of many implemented projects bring together artists, designers, engineers, creating their own "musevski" style is perceived as virtually the only and complete expression of the ar-деко in the Soviet Union, and as one of the most striking examples of "Stalin Empire style".

However, in the same era worked, and other outstanding masters, also in the search for a new language of art and the new images offer a radiant Future. Not all of them had a chance to become architects-практиками. Who-то as, for example, Yakov Chernikhov, and remained mostly the author of a fantastic and elegant images-концепций (his album "one Hundred architectural fantasies" became a source of inspiration for many artists and architects-конструктивистов). Other chose to realize the ideals of modernism not in life, but in the stage space of the Soviet theatres, so popular avant-garde culture.

the Exhibition design graphics, organized by the gallery "vellum", which includes the work of Alexei Shchusev, Yakov Chernikhov, Alexandra Exter, — is an attempt to show how wide was the search for spatial patterns in the age of bold experiments and the highest creative tension.

the Gallery "vellum": www.vellum.ru, (495) 776-33-31.

Source: press-релиз gallery "vellum"