Exhibition "Closed Museum" Automatic translate

June 9, 2016 at 17. 00 in the halls of the Russian Academy of Arts (Prechistenka, 21) opens the exhibition "Closed Museum".

The Closed Museum exhibition at the Russian Academy of Arts on Prechistenka (the former city estate of Ivan Morozov) recreates the setting of the Museum of New Western Painting, which was located in this mansion in the 1920s and 40s and included works from two legendary collections by Sergei Schukin and Ivan Morozova.

Curator Andrei Erofeev and painter Alla Reshetnikova offer an exhibition quote composed of plain paintings in the same sizes and similar frames as the original hanging of the collection of the museum closed in 1948, preserved in photographs and documents published in many monographs, albums and studies on Morozov, Schukin and the Impressionists.

“The Closed Museum exhibition is a kind of homage to the great Russian collectors Sergei Schukin and Ivan Morozov, without which Russia would not have in its museum collections the best works by Picasso, Matisse and the brilliant galaxy of French impressionists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, ” notes art producer and collector Igor Tsukanov.

Alla Reshetnikova graduated from the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov and worked with several galleries in Europe and the USA. Abstract paintings by Alla Reshetnikova are made in a complex, busy and multi-layered technique. “Painting, and color in particular, is my religion, mysticism and freedom. The color and magic of the color of the picturesque field is my main character. This exhibition is a great honor for me and a challenge at the same time - the great impressionists left me with a feeling of an open world of color and absolute happiness, ”the artist admits.

Andrei Erofeev is an independent curator and art critic, the founder of the Department of the Newest Trends of the State Tretyakov Gallery.

The exhibition was organized by Tsukanov Family Foundation with the support of the State Tretyakov Gallery and the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin.

The Tsukanov Family Foundation is a London-based charitable organization implementing a wide program of support for art, music and education in Russia and the UK. Owns one of the world’s largest private collections of Russian post-war art.