Society and culture: “Russian Avant-Guard: From Dawn to Dusk” exhibition in Moscow

The exhibition "Russian Avant-Garde: From Dawn to Dusk," opening June 18, 2015 in the Museum and Exhibition Center "Worker and Collective Farm Girl" in Moscow, features the works of avant-garde artists and artists of the Paris School of Russian origin, created in the period from mid-1910s to the early 1940s. The Center "Worker and Collective Farm Girl" displays paintings, drawings and sculptures from the collection of J. Nosov - more than 250 works. The exhibition is timed to the presentation of the catalog of the complete collection of the well-known Moscow collector.

The concept of "avant-garde" in the context of the exhibition is interpreted in a broad sense, as is customary in art history at the present time: almost all the exhibited artists are included in the three-volume "Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde" (V. Rakitin, A. Sarabyanov). The name "Russian Avant-Garde: From Dawn to Dusk" reflects the complex evolution of the work of representatives of the left art: from the birth and rapid development of avant-garde art associations of the mid 1910s - early 1920s, that is, "Dawn", through a gradual weakening of radical experimentation impulses in the 1930s, to the almost complete extinction by the early 1940s, that is, "Dusk."