31 Dec
"From Chagall to Malevich – The Revolution of the Avant-Garde" at the Grimaldi Forum Monaco
In the summer of 2015, the Grimaldi Forum will present an exhibition as part of Russian Year in Monaco. Russian year will take place throughout 2015
The exhibition "From Chagall to Malevich – The Revolution of the Avant-Garde" will be held at the Grimaldi Forum Monaco from 12 July to 6 September 2015.
This wide-ranging exhibition will bring together the major works of leading artists who represent the avant-garde in Russia between 1905 and 1930.
These artists were the forerunners of major changes in the way of conceiving, seeing and representing reality. Although an academic approach was still prevalent, these young artists in Moscow and Saint Petersburg could not be satisfied with this vision of the past
Various different movements emerged, outside all conventions, leading to schools and movements that illustrate the energy and richness of creative activity at the beginning of the 20th century, such as Impressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Cubo-Futurism, Rayonism, Suprematism and Constructivism, expressing unknown forms of representation that were inextricably linked with their era.
This, in essence, is the great story of the "avant-garde" artists who overturned centuries of a conventional, academic approach.
To present a subject of this magnitude, the curator of the exhibition, Jean-Louis Prat, has obtained some important loans from several of the major Russian institutions, including the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, the Pushkin Museum and the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
Other major Russian museums, such as the Nizhny Novgorod, Astrakhan, Krasnodar and Tula museums, which benefitted from deposits of works of art at the beginning of the October Revolution in 1917, were also approached and agreed to some special loans. Some of the great European museums, such as the Pompidou Centre in Paris, also feature on this prestigious list.
This exhibition will bring together more than 150 major works. A richly illustrated technical catalogue in two languages, with essays by specialists in the avant-garde artists, as well as descriptions and bibliographies of the artists and the various movements of this era, will be published for the occasion.
"From Chagall to Malevich – The Revolution of the Avant-Garde" exhibition
From 12 July to 6 September 2015
Grimaldi Forum Monaco
www.grimaldiforum.com
Photo Credits: Introduction to the Theatre of Jewish Art - 1920
Tempera on canvas, gouache
Tretiakov Gallery Moscow
Bridgeman images
Adagp, Paris 2014