love and service to art could not ignore its privacy. Even those who knew the collector in Alexandra Zavolokin, and there were not many among a wide circle of his acquaintances, poorly represents the real extent of his hobbies. Now, two years after the sudden departure A. Zavolokin of life, our gallery is the audience of approximately 120 works of graphic art from the collection of Alexandra and Alexandra Zavolokin. The idea of the exhibition is to show the handwriting of the collector, his taste and sense of time. Before the eyes of the spectators appear drawings, sketches of sets and costumes, bookplates and book illustrations mainly 1920-1930-ies Lev Bruni, Basil Vatagina Alexander Vedernikov, Vera Ermolaeva, Vladimir Konashevych, Nicholas Kupreyanova, Boris Kustodiev, Alexander Labasa, Vladimir Lebedev, Dmitry Mitrokhin, Alexei Pakhomov, Alexandra Platunovoy, Vera Pestel, Ivan Puni, Sergei Romanovich, Mikhail Sokolov, Pavel Sokolov-rock, Antonina Sofronova, Faith Tabor, Artur Fonvizin, Alexander Shevchenko, Vasyl Shukhayev and other artists.
"Collision with any of this collection is always the joy and wonder of discovery, first feature, and then the human race. In selecting works for the exhibition, we were stunned by the scale of the graphic collection Zavolokin. In essence, the complete publication of works could act as a good guide to the history of Russian and Soviet graphic. From a large collection of A. & A. Zavolokin we have identified the part, the limited 1900-1930-mi for years as the most interesting and challenging for collecting ... Original collector, choosing from the surrounding world that seems to him a valuable and present, create it through, for stroke, in the image, and an exhibition of his collection forms in the minds of the audience of his way to artistic comprehension of the world ", - Natalia Kournikova, art director of the gallery" Our artists, curator of the exhibition.
By the opening of the exhibition prepared by the directory in which published essays, memoirs of Alexander Zavolokin his colleagues and friends of Michael Shvydkoy, Alexandra Golitsyn, Leonid Tishkov, Zoe Kirnoze, Stephen Kutur and others.
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Gallery Our artists was formed in 1995.

One of the main activities of the gallery - to familiarize the public with the domestic works of Russian artists who worked in exile in the first half and middle of the twentieth century - Andrei Lansky, Sergei Sharshunov, Sergey Polyakov, Leopold Syurvazha, Nicholas Tarkhov, Marievna (Mary Vorobieva-Stebelski) , Paul Chelishchev, Maria Vasilyeva, Ivan Puni and others.

The expositions in galleries between thematic exhibitions are works by artists of 'left' movements in art of the first half of the twentieth century - Petr Konchalovsky, Robert Falk, Natalia Goncharova and others, as well as the artists of the sixties - Oleg Tselkov, Boris Sveshnikov, Vladimir Weisberg, Yuri Cooper, Vladimir Yakovlev and others.

Gallery collaborates with museums, providing their work for their exhibitions and engaging works from their collections on their own. In particular, the museum's works were exhibited: "The Russian abstraction in France mid-twentieth century" (2006), "Pavel Tchelitchew (2006-2007)," New Objectivity "Nicholas Zagrekov and Russian artists (in 2007)," Mstislav Dobuzhinsky: From Lithuania to America "(2007-2008).

About the building
In December 2004, the gallery "Our artists opened a new exhibition space on Rublevo Dormition highway in a three-story building designed by renowned architect Eugene Assom. Total area of the gallery is about 600 square meters, of which 350 square meters. meters are exhibition areas. The building is equipped with the newest museum equipment: a system to maintain the necessary humidity and temperature, a professional lighting.


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