The exhibition "Love in the avant-garde. Mikhail Matyushin and Elena Guro"

The Zotov Center opened the exhibition "Love in the Avant-Garde. Mikhail Matyushin and Elena Guro". It collected in Moscow a record number of works of the great couple of the Russian avant-garde, including never before shown works. "Izvestia" visited the exhibition.

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Mikhail Matyushin and Elena Guro are at the origins of the Russian avant-garde. In the late 1900s, they founded the Union of Youth, were friends with the then very young Futurists (Vladimir Mayakovsky, Velimir Khlebnikov, Alexei Kruchenykh), published their first collections. They are also the origin of organic culture, a trend that suggests a search not in isolation from the real world, but in close union with nature.

The new Zotova exhibition is more than 150 exhibits. It could be divided into independent retrospectives of each artist. However, Matyushin and Guro are not two solos, but a duo.

Seventeen museums and private collections took part in the project. Along with things rare and unfamiliar to the viewer, there are also textbook masterpieces of the Russian avant-garde: Guro's "Scandinavian Princess" and Matyushin's "Movement in Space" from the Russian Museum, Matyushin's "Crystal" from the State Museum of Fine Arts of St. Petersburg (it came to Moscow for the first time). Two St. Petersburg museums together with the Tretyakov Gallery also provided a selection of root sculptures.

Read more in an exclusive Izvestia piece on Friday, February 21, at 10:00:

Art in love: in Moscow - the exhibition of the legend of the Russian avant-garde Matyushin