Christie's will present a retrospective of Kazakh art

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Christie's will present a retrospective of Kazakh art

14.07.10 /10:12

In the autumn auction house Christie's in London opens a new season of art. The first event in a series of events will be the presentation of the exhibition "Treasures of Kazakhstan", uniting the Kazakh and Russian art of XX century. The exhibition is organized with the support of Astana Group and Oracle Capital Group.
In the exposition will include 50 works of art from the State Art Museum named after the Republic of Kazakhstan Kasteev. The main reservoir museum masterpieces will add 20 works from private collections Nurlan Smagulova. This wide-scale exhibition to uncover the stages of formation and operation features of the Kazakh national school of painting. Among the outstanding artists represented in the exhibition appear Moldakhmetov Kenbaan and Kanaf Telzhanov using the techniques of realism for the transfer of the national spirit; Salihitdin Aytbaev, whose film "Happiness" became a kind of manifesto of artistic ideas of the 1960's and many others. Of great importance in the formation of the museum's collection had a practice of interaction with the State Tretyakov Gallery, State Museum of Fine Arts named after A. Pushkin, the State Hermitage and the State Russian Museum. As a result of cultural exchanges and unexpected gifts in the museum collections were "objective Composition" by Olga Rozanova, "Still Life" Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Pavel Filonov drawings. Until now, access to wealth collection was closed to the international audience. Opportunity to exhibit the world appeared in connection with the closing of the museum for the reconstruction and the staff of Christie's took advantage of it immediately.
According to the organizers of the exhibition, future exposure should be a unique event in the whole of Western Europe and London in particular. "London is already widely formed an interest in Russian art. We have two times a year here Russian trading Christie's. European viewers are already familiar with the names of Russian Artists - Pavel Filonov, Robert Falk, Pyotr Konchalovsky, Zinaida Serebryakova, whose works are included in the exhibition. We hope very much that now there will remember the names and artists of Kazakhstan Abylkhan Kasteev Sergei Kalmykov, Kanaf Telzhanova, Salihitdina Aitbayev, and the exhibition will be greeted with great enthusiasm and the beginning of a long history dating London with Kazakh art "- said the head of the International Department of Christie's Russian art Alexei Tiesenhausen.

The exhibition will be held from 1 to 8 September in the main exhibition halls of Christie's.

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