Moscow.Russia / Tretyakov Gallery May 22 to July 29, 2007

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Presentation of exhibition "Europe-Russia-Europe"

The exhibition will be open to public from May 22 to July 29, 2007
at 10, Krymsky Val, halls 60* and 80–82.

About 100 works from 48 largest national museums of 27 European Union member countries are displayed in the tremendous exhibition Europe-Russia-Europe at the Tretyakov Gallery.

The project was conceived by the Tretyakov Gallery and the European Commission, which also made a substantial contribution to funding the project. The opening date of the exhibition has been chosen intentionally: this international project crowns the anniversary program “World Museums Congratulate the Tretyakov Gallery”, the EU and Russian leaders have their regular summit meeting on May 18 in Samara, and the European Union celebrates its 50th birthday in 2007. The significance of these events in the cultural as well as political environment became the basis of implementation of the joint project, which had been prepared for more than two years.

The exhibition will demonstrate the national identity of each participating country and at the same time the mutual influence and interpenetration of the European cultures, continuity of creative ties which have been uniting the European continent for centuries.

Each country provided three works displaying different periods in the making of their national artistic schools. First of all, the important work of the medieval or classical art up to the middle of the XX century, important for the national art and influential in the context of the European history of arts; then, a work of the Modernism epoch (second half of the 19th century – first half of the 20th century) bearing the idea of the cultural or political modernization and identity formation in the changing world; and, finally, a work of the contemporary actual art – from the 1950s up to the present days – which displays the new reality and the idea of the open communication.

The exposition will display a sculpture by Francois Rude from The Musee d’Orsay, a portrait of Rene Descartes by Sebastien Bourdon from The Louvre and a still life painting by Henri Matisse from the Centre Georges Pompidou (France). A portrait by Lucas Cranach from the Dresden Gallery, a landscape by Caspar David Friedrich from Kunsthalle, Hamburg, and one of the famous works by Georg Baselitz painted in the artist’s trade mark upside down manner from the Museum of Modern Art in Duisburg (Germany).

Also the works by John Sargent, William Turner, and Henry Moore (Great Britain); Titian, P.Testa and K. Maratto (Italy), David Teniers, jr., Constantin Meunier and Panamarenko (Henri Van Herwegen) (Belgium), paintings of Jose Ribera, Pablo Picasso and Antonio Saura (Spain) will be represented.

The museums of Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Ireland, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Finland, Cyprus, Greece, Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Austria, Malta, Estonia, Czech Republic, and Romania offered first rate works from their collections.

Russian art is also represented by such world-famous masterpieces as Trinity (1420s) by Andrei Rublev, Morning of Streltsy’s Execution (1881) by V. I. Surikov from the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery, and Wanderer (1990–2003) by E. V. Bulatov from the collection of Ekaterina Culture Fund.

The adornment of the exhibition are the works by the European artists of the ХХ century who became universal figures in world art: Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich and others as well as icons from the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery and the Vladimir-and-Suzdal Reserve Museum, widely known outside Russia.


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