We invite You to Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts on Voevodina 29.01.2016 to the exhibition "Revolution in art"
The exhibition will be opened for visitors since 29.01.2016 till 01.05.2016.
Europeans will be able to see one of the most significant and interesting collections of painting of Russian avant-garde early XX century: forty outstanding works of such famous Russian artists like as Kazimir Malevich, Vasily Kandinsky, Alexander Rodchenko, El Lissitzky, Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov. The collection clearly demonstrates the enormous diversity of avant-garde movement and includes almost all of his directions:neo-primitivism, cubism, cubo-futurism, abstract expressionism, Suprematism, constructivism. Two suprematist paintings: "Kitchen" Nadezhda Udaltsova and "Suprematism" by Kazimir Malevich will be in Budapest from Basel, which previously was exhibited at the exhibition "0,10: Malevich, Tatlin and the birth of new systems in art".
The permanent exhibition of the Yekaterinburg Museum of fine arts, which is dedicated to the Russian artistic avant-garde of the 1910- 1920-ies, and was dismantled in the spring of 2015 in connection with forthcoming reconstruction of the building at Weiner,11 and establishment of cultural – educational center "The Hermitage – Ural". After the exhibition in Budapest paintings from the collection of EMII will return to Yekaterinburg and can be seen again at the end of 2016.
Collection of painting of Russian avant-garde is one of the most interesting and complete collections of the Yekaterinburg Museum of fine arts. It is, overwhelmingly, was brought to Yekaterinburg by the initiative of the people's commissariat for the big exhibition of all the currents of modern painting. It was connected with V. V. Kandinsky expressed the idea of creating a network of museums of painting culture, not only in the capitals but in the province. After the exhibition, which was held with great success in the premises of the free art studios in May 1920, the paintings were left in Ekaterinburg. So in the capital of the Urals was a unique collection of Russian art of the avant-garde of the early XX century, and eventually included as its founders and recognized luminaries and lesser known or forgotten authors.
