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The new exhibition of the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin will combine the two strategic directions of recent years, which develops the exhibition activities of the museum. This is a presentation of the collections of private collectors, as well as a demonstration of a new conceptual approach to creating exhibitions.

"East Jazz / East West Jazz" - an exhibition in which viewers will see more than 30 unique Central Asian robes and fabrics from the collection of Alexander Klyachin and more than two dozen paintings of post-war abstract painting, collected by Swiss collector Jean Claude Gandyur. Having expanded and supplemented the exposition with works from the collections of the Pushkin Museum to them. A.S. Pushkin and the Paris Pompidou Center - Museum of Modern Art - Center for Industrial Design, exhibition curators will talk about the interaction of Eastern and Western cultures. This will be an exhibition of philosophical, emotional and contemplative, but not didactic.

The exhibition is designed to arouse spectator emotions, with its help it will be possible to penetrate the essence of the thinking of abstract artists, to understand the origins of their work. Demonstrating various compositions composed of robes and fabrics created in the 19th century and abstract paintings of Western artists of the 20th century, curators talk about how the art of anonymous masters of the East directly or indirectly influenced modernist and contemporary art.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the art of the East changed the mind of European artists, whose eye was brought up on the canons of beauty of Greco-Roman antiquity. “Simplicity is almost to barbarism. The difficulty is almost dizzying. Refinement of the most refined, sensually dreaming people. Seriousness, severity, sometimes the severity of the picture as on ancient icons. And the soft, flexible, sometimes crafty beauty of the line, ”wrote Vasily Kandinsky. Thanks to the color combinations and principles of working with color, other compositional constructions of space and perspective, characteristic of the visual arts of the East, and, most importantly, the abstract perception of reality, Western artists have learned to set new artistic tasks. Each one solved them individually, opening up new horizons in the decorativeness of oriental art. Collectors Alexander Klyachin and Jean Claude Gandur are an example of how large entrepreneurs can simultaneously combine the talents of prominent businessmen, philanthropists and philanthropists.

Alexander Klyachin graduated from the Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University M.V. Lomonosov, continued his studies in the United States. Today he is one of the largest Russian investors, owns the Metropol Hotel, one of the most striking historical and architectural monuments of Art Nouveau in Moscow, and is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Museum and the Center for Tolerance and the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of Russia. Alexander Klyachin participates in various charity programs to help children. In 2006, on his initiative, the non-profit Foundation for the Support of Social Research Khamovniki was established, whose main mission is to make knowledge accessible to everyone. Alexander Klyachin began the “career” of a collector more than a quarter century ago, and today his collection is one of the most unique in the world. Klyachin collected 250 festive, everyday, ritual robes of Central Asia, created in the period from the middle of the XIX to the middle of the XX century, as well as a significant number of old oriental carpets.

The man of the world, Jean-Claude Gandur, Swiss, was born in French Grasse. His maternal grandparents are from Russia. Gandyur’s childhood passed between Egyptian Alexandria and the Swiss canton of Vaud. In 1975, he began entrepreneurial activity, in 1987 he opened the Addax et Oryx Group (AOG) company and gradually expanded his field of activity, never forgetting about social responsibility. The interest of Jean-Claude Gandyur in art arose thanks to the artistic assembly of the family. Today, his collection includes more than 3,500 works of antique and Egyptian art, European post-war painting, decorative and applied art, including medieval sculptures and French furniture of the 18th century, also includes an ethnographic collection of objects and artifacts, most of which come from Latin America. In 2010, Jean-Claude Gandur founded the Foundation of his own name, the purpose of which is not only to promote the collection, but also to carry out educational activities, making art more accessible. Jean-Claude Gandur owns an outstanding collection of post-war abstract art; his collection includes works by artists such as Victor Vasarely, Nicola de Stael, Jim Dine, Hans Hartung, Francois Morelle and many others.

The upcoming exhibition "East Jazz / East West Jazz" will unfold on the main exhibition axis of the Main building of the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin from October 1 to November 15, 2019. In addition to the above-mentioned works from the collections of Alexander Klyachin and Jean-Claude Gandur, the exhibition will feature 14 rarely exhibited sheets of the graphic series by Henri Matisse “Jazz”, created by the artist in 1947, four (three graphic and one pictorial) works of Vasily Kandinsky from the collection of the Pushkin Museum to them. A.S. Pushkin, as well as the 14 best examples of abstract art, including works by Alexander Calder, Lucho Fontana, Joan Mitchell, Daniel Buren and Serge Polyakov, who will provide the Pompidou Center - Museum of Modern Art - the Center for Industrial Design and private French collectors at the exhibition.

Curators of the exhibition:

Suria Sadekova, head of the department of educational and exhibition projects of the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin
Patrick Urkad, co-curator and author of the concept for the decoration of the exhibition; art historian, stage designer, in the 1980s - art director of the French edition of Vogue magazine
Elena Tsareva, scientific consultant of the exhibition (section of oriental gowns and fabrics); Leading Researcher, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences
Anna Klochkova, Nikolai Molok Jr., employees of the department of educational and exhibition projects of the Pushkin Museum named after A.S. Pushkin
Mikhail Anikst, catalog designer and graphic designer of the exhibition; graphic artist, illustrator, theater artist, academician of the Moscow Academy of Graphic Design