Information Technologies and Museums: "Russian Avant-garde" multimedia exhibition opened in Kemerovo

On December 15, 2020, the Kuzbass Arts Center opened the "Russian Avant-garde" multimedia exhibition. It is arranged by the Kemerovo branch of the Russian Museum.

The multimedia exposition features 30 artworks of the Russian avant-garde of the first third of the XX century from the collection of the State Russian Museum. It presents the works by Kazimir Malevich, Vasily Kandinsky, Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir Tatlin, Pavel Filonov - a kind of "visiting card" of the Russian avant-garde.

At the beginning of the XX century, the Russian avant-garde departed from academic art. The artists began to work with pure form, colour and space denying the decisive role of the plot, nature or quality of the painting. The exhibition allows understanding the origins of the innovative art systems, paintings and drawings, and the logic of constructing spatial forms. The works of the leading Russian avant-garde masters will acquire a new appearance. The exhibition will show the decomposition of outlines, changes of masses and colours, the spatial sound of a line, point, plane, magic of rhythm and intentions, a harmony of cosmic chaos or hidden movement in static.

The main ideas of avant-garde art are visualized in spatial projections of four exhibition areas. The exposition also includes music by Dmitry Shostakovich.

Since the 1990s, the State Russian Museum provides scientific and methodological support for Russian regions, including digital technologies in culture.

The "Russian Avant-garde" digital exhibition in Kemerovo is the result of many years of experiments in the field of computer visualization of the Russian Museum Multimedia Centre. Today the State Russian Museum opens up new opportunities and a new page in cooperation with its representations and branches in different cities and countries. The Kuzbass Art Centre is the first platform of this unique experiment.

The exhibition will run until the end of January 2021.