Exhibitions: Paintings and drawings of 1920-40s are presented in the "Frontiers of Memory" exhibition in Rostov

Art Museum of St. Petersburg of the XX-XXI centuries (the branch of the Central Exhibition Hall "Manege") for the first time presents an exhibition of paintings and drawings of 1920-40s in Rostov. 46 paintings and 45 graphic works by Leningrad artists are represented in the exposition.

Art Museum of St. Petersburg of XX-XXI centuries - is a young cultural institution. Legal status the museum received in December 2015. However, the collection, which the museum is having, has a 25-year history. Having started its life in 1991, the museum's collection has become one of the largest and most artistically weighty among Russian collections, which reflects the history of the development of fine art in Petrograd - Leningrad - St. Petersburg, starting from the 1920s to the present day. The collection includes a wide range of genres and styles - from avant-garde of the early XX century, socialist realism, the "Left" branches of Soviet art, underground art events to the post-perestroika period, and the post-perestroika Fine trends today.    

The museum has a world-class work of St. Petersburg artists of different generations. But it is paintings and drawings by Leningrad artists of 1920-40s that can be called a proud collection. The works of this period, characterized by the highest plastic culture, provide the kind of "snapshot" of Soviet art, which breaks down stereotypes and gives depth and ambiance on our ideas about the visual culture of those years.

Achievements of the creative experiment "Leningrad school" of the early XX century became a kind of manifesto for a generation of artists worldwide. The city on the Neva, having accumulated many innovative artistic intention of the time, was in fact the founder of Russian avant-garde ideas. Revolutionary transformation of cultural aesthetics claimed here spread far beyond the cultural area of ​​St. Petersburg, thereby exerting a tremendous influence on the formation of art thinking of the second half of the 20th century.