To the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi: Exhibition “Sport Games in the Oriental Art” as part of the Cultural Olympiad “Sochi 2014” in Moscow

February 7, 2014 as part of the of the Cultural Olympiad "Sochi 2014" the State Museum of Oriental Art in Moscow presents the exhibition "Sports Games in the Oriental art" on the topic of sports of different countries and peoples of the East. The exposition is created by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

For the first Cultural Olympiad in Sochi in 2010 was created a unique project, every each of which year is dedicated to a certain type of art: for example, 2013 was marked as the "The Year of museums". The State Museum of Oriental Art also participated in this program, successfully held the exhibition "Dragon and phoenix" in the National Museum of the city of Nalchik (Kabardino-Balkaria). And now, on the eve of the opening of the XXII Winter Olympic Games, at the museum on Nikitsky Boulevard in Moscow opens a thematic exhibition dedicated to the popular sports games in the East.

The exposition consists of works of art from different regions: the Far East, the South-East and Central Asia, the Caucasus and Central Asian countries, as well as the north-east of Russia.

The exhibition includes as monuments of fine and decorative arts, and sports equipment: Japanese racquet shuttlecock, Myanmar and Eskimo balls, costume for Mongolian national wrestling Nadom and more.

Racing, fighting and sports games have traditionally been an indispensable component of any festival in the East. Paintings, murals, statues with motifs sports games allow you to learn about exotic games or national spectacles of various peoples, such as the traditional Tuvan fight khuresh or Japanese sumo wrestling, bicycle races in the Turkmen village, archery in Indonesia and other competitions.

The exhibition will introduce the audience with a spectacular game in chinlon (or chhinloun), originated in the early XIX century in Myanmar and became the prototype of the modern football. Prominent place in the exposition also belongs to Eskimo balls buckskin. On the other sports of the North is shown in sculptural composition "reindeer sleigh" of Chukchi stonecutter, which was donated to Nikita Khrushchev personally, as well as two engraved walrus tusk "Hunting fox" and "Choosing the Bride" of hereditary Chukchi carver Teyutinoy Lydia (1945-2011) associated with the competition Chukchi reindeer herders. The pearl Exhibition - Japanese porcelain panels painted on the traditional game shuttlecock and racket court for this popular fun.