Russian culture abroad: Exhibition of works by Wassily Kandinsky opens in Italy

March 29, 2014 in the Italian city of Vercelli opens the exhibition "Kandinsky: the artist as a shaman". The exhibition presents as works of Wassily Kandinsky, and the work of his illustrious contemporaries Pavel Filonov, David Burliuk, Mikhail Larionov, Aristarchus Lentulov, Alexandra Exter and others from museum and private collections.

The exposition aims to demonstrate "shamanic" roots of Kandinsky and other pioneers of abstract art, namely the interest that has been used by these artists to the traditions, folk rituals and folklore in general. Therefore, the exhibition presents numerous works of folk arts and crafts of the XIX-XX centuries: distaff, trunks, trim, etc.

The core of the exhibition consists of works from the collection of the State Russian Museum, which recently established a connection to a cultural exchange with the city of Vercelli. Visitors will be able to see such famous masterpieces as "Red Church", "Painting with cusps" and "Golden Cloud" by Kandinsky, "Two Girls" by Filonov, "Radiant landscape" by Larionov, "Dniester thresholds" by Burliuk.

The exhibition is held in a former St. Mark’s Church, built in 1266, and in November 2007 passed to the museum of the Venetian collection of Peggy Guggenheim and now known as Arca di Vercelli.

The exposition will be open till July 6.