Exhibitions: Exposition “Still-life. Metamorphoses. Dialogue between classics and Contemporary art” in Moscow

Exposition “Still-life. Metamorphoses. Dialogue between classics and Contemporary art” opens on November 2, 2012 at the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow).

The largest exhibition of the season is devoted to a still-life – the more conceptual genre of the Art.  For the first time in the Russian exhibition practice are demonstrated various types of still-lifes in the Russian Art of the XVIII-XIX centuries and metamorphoses of the end of the XX century – early XXI century. The main purpose of the exhibition is to show the manner of presenting the subject world by "old masters" and the transformation of that manner in the contemporary art.

About 200 paintings, drawings, pieces of arts and crafts, subjects of everyday life constitute the exposition. Some exhibits belong to the Tretyakov Gallery, but the most part arrived from the State Hermitage, State Russian museum, State Historical Museum, memorial estates "Kuskovo" and "Ostankino", regional Russian collections and museums of Belarus and Ukraine.

Authors of the project deliberately refused from the historical and chronological show of the still-life. Every section is devoted to the one of the main types of still-lifes.

Still-lifes of a Kharkov academician-artist and photographer E. I. Voloshinov (1823-1913), will become a discovery of the exhibition.  At the end of the 19th - the beginning of the 20th century he painted flowers and fruit not in the interiors, but in their natural surrounding – in the open air.

Some classical pictures will be placed in parallel with the works of Ilya Kabakov, Victor Pivovarov, Igor Makarevich, Boris Turetsky and other artists of the end of the 20th - the beginning of the 21st century. The exhibition constitutes a new museum experiment that gives a new look on the works of "old" and "new" art schools existing  in different contexts.