In Rome, opened two exhibitions of Russian art of the twentieth century
In Rome, at once two Russian exhibition - "socialist realism. The Great Soviet painting 1920-1970 years" and "Alexander Rodchenko" - opened on Monday in the Year of Russian language and culture in Italy.
The first retrospective of the largest foreign artists socialist realists and panorama of the artist and photographer, were presented today at the Rome Exhibition Palace.
"The Art of the Soviet period because of the prejudices of his" official "virtually unknown in the West, neither critics nor public. Working on this exhibition, we have tried to show that it is much harder to get a look at these paintings with new eyes as art objects, detached the ideological content, "- said the deputy director of the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg Evgeny Petrov.
She made curator of the exhibition, along with the author of the concept of the exhibition the famous British art critic and expert on East European and Soviet art, Matthew Bown and deputy director of the Moscow Kremlin Museum Zelfira Tregulova.
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