Museum of Avant-Garde

[Евгений]

In Moscow, announced the creation of a new private museum of avant-garde art and his first exhibition of the Fatherland, my - in my mind: art without borders, "which opens at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on the eve of Independence Day of Russia, on June 11.

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private collection, which is now presented as avant-garde art museum, its owner Vyacheslav Kantor collected ten years. The idea, as he himself says, was to do something "very Russian, very Jewish and very outstanding." Now the collection is presented to the public at least partly - in the form of catalog and in a forthcoming exhibition, which got about 10%of the congregation.

From the perspective of "outstanding" - a complete success. In the work of three dozen artists of the twentieth century, recognized the ideologically correct (their criteria Vyacheslav Kantor told Kommersant in an interview), selected works of the level of masterpieces. How much does it cost him - a collector does not say, but it is clear that the material cost of collection is huge. It - "Beetle" Ilya Kabakov, for which at Phillips de Pury auction has been paid a record $ 6 million, "Confectioner of Kang, Chaim Soutine (£ 5 million at Christie` s), "Portrait of a girl in a black dress, Amedeo Modigliani ($ 14 million at Sotheby `s), masterpieces of Leon Bakst and the best pictures of Eric Bulatov. Results in the collection of about 400 works, and this does not include photos.

But with Russian and Jewish "in art, culture, and in general life of the twentieth century, all terribly confusing. The exhibition's curator, art historian Andrei Tolstoy-based works from the collection of brilliantly illustrates the idea of tolerance and freedom, so fertile for artists. Example - Paris School, in an international community of which came from Russia's outlying villages, which was commissioned by the path of the Pale of Settlement, have become the primary European masters. However, in the collection not only Chaim Soutine (born in Smilavichy near Minsk), Jacques Lipchitz (born in Druskininkai, now Lithuania), Sonia Delaunay (from Odessa), Ossip Zadkine (of Smolensk). Here and Lado Gudiashvili (born in Tiflis), whose work is partly in tune with Modigliani, and the American abstract expressionist Mark Rothko (born in Dvinsk, now Daugavpils), and the American abstract expressionist sculptor Louise Nevelson (born in Kiev). Vyacheslav Kantor, ready to defend your choice and again and again to explain that in the works of these artists from the Russian, and that of the Jewish culture, but the calls at the same time "look at the matter more."

"Aggravation of historical memory" - this, in fact, enough to get a good artist in the assembly of the new Museum of avant-garde art. Thus, for example, got into a collection of the famous painting of Valentin Serov (what the artist was the grandson of a converted Jew, was hardly a primary). Even in 2001, Tretyakov Gallery, in which we used to see "The Rape of Europa" Valentin Serov, looking for money to buy fabric from the heirs of the artist. The money was found, and now "Europe" sailed into a collection of the Museum of avant-garde art - which, fortunately, promises to be public.

Museum conceived traveling, and the first exhibition to be held in Geneva in the UN building. In the coming years, the exhibition of the Museum of avant-garde art show will be in the best museums of the world - so it will execute his mission call to build a tolerant society. Here are imbued with this call, whether Ukraine, accustomed in recent years to consider artists who were born on its territory, its, Ukrainian? And Latvia with Lithuania and Belarus, and Georgia, who is not so much "their" brilliant artists? If so, the mission of the Museum of avant-garde art will be truly fulfilled.

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[gans]

Yes, it would be interesting to see the work.