An exhibition of Soviet modernist paintings has opened in New Jerusalem
The New Jerusalem Museum has opened an exhibition entitled "Light between Worlds," featuring works by Soviet modernist artists. These paintings are part of the collections of the New Jerusalem and the I.V. Savitsky Museum of Art of the Republic of Karakalpakstan in Nukus (Uzbekistan).
The new exhibition aims to show the intersection points of the two collections. The collections from Istra and Nukus are very different. They focus on different periods, different authors, and different genres. If you set out to create the most representative selection of works, it will include only a small part of what is currently on display in the "New Jerusalem". But the curators came up with a move: to identify the period that is represented in both museums, and to find parallels between them.
The viewer is greeted at the entrance by a canvas by artist Alexander Volkov, where Christ is depicted on one side and a Demon on the other (a reference to the painting "The Sitting Demon" by Mikhail Vrubel). At the end of the exhibition, Sergei Romanovich's expressionist gospel cycle is presented, in which the face of the Savior appears through rough, chaotic oil strokes.
There was also a theme of the East — the first hall is dedicated to it. There are no fewer works dedicated to the theme of the West: in Volkov's landscapes, one can see homage to Paul Cezanne's "Mount St. Victoria", Maxim Sokolov refers to Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro with his works, and in Rostislav Barto's "Sultry Day" Giorgio de Chirico and Salvador Dali are read.
The exhibition turned out not to be about Uzbekistan and Russia, but about the USSR, where different styles, traditions, national and international came together.
Read more in the exclusive Izvestia article:
Meeting on Istra: the collections of the two countries were exhibited in the "New Jerusalem"
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