Exhibitions: “From Moscow to the Country’s Outskirts…” exposition underway in St. Petersburg

A new exhibit “From Moscow to the Country’s Outskirts…” kicked off on November 24th 2011 in Benois Wing, the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg).

The exhibition is devoted to the Russian art of the 18th – beginning of 21st cc. where a significant and versatile theme of outskirts received various interpretation. The exposition includes about 100 paintings, graphic works, sculptures and applied art works from the collection of the Russian State Museum.

In the exposition the images of the working-class districts or the scenes of an everyday life in provincial towns are presented side by side with imposing panoramas of the Russian nature and the works devoted to the theme of wandering or covering Russia’s vast territories.

The exposition unites the works by eminent masters (F. Alekseev, A. Martynov, I. Yermenev, M. Nesterov, B. Kustodiev, B. Grigoriev, K. Malevich, K. Petrov-Vodkin, A. Deyneka, G. Korzhev and others) and less known artists, presenting different trends and stages of development of Russian art.