Rodchenko and Popova in the Museum of Thessaloniki

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ATHENS, June 25 - RIA Novosti, Alexei Bogdanovsky. Exhibition of two outstanding masters of the Russian avant-garde of Alexander Rodchenko and Liubov Popova, which involves a series of Russian cultural institutions, opened Wednesday night at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, told RIA Novosti the museum director, art historian Mary Tsantsanoglu.

The exhibition "Rodchenko and Popova: defining constructivism" organized by a leading London gallery Tate Modern and independent curator Margaret Tupitsyna.

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"At this exhibition presents 330 works of two artists, 70 of them - from the collection of George Kostaki, and as those that are in Greece, and those that are kept in the Tretyakov Gallery," - said the director of a Greek museum.

"In addition, many museums of Russia took part in the exhibition - the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, Bakhrushin Theater Museum, Museum of Architecture named Shchusev Museums of Tula, Astrakhan, Kirov Region, Nizhni Novgorod, Krasnoyarsk and Dagestan," - added Greek art .

Rodchenko and Popova have passed their way every avant-garde art, and met in constructivism - the last movement of the Russian avant-garde in the 20 years of the twentieth century, "said museum director.

"They tried in their own way to give his own interpretation of how art can be useful to give the idea of architecture, engineering, design," - explained Tsantsanoglu.

"They have moved their activities to production. Rodchenko made design for advertising, cigarette packs, Popova - for fabrics, made illustrations and font work for the books. They were trying to find the aesthetics, which would influence the new way of life" - entered the museum's director.

The exhibition is held in Greece after it went to the London Tate Modern, where the work of Rodchenko and Popova saw more than 100 thousand visitors. The exhibition has received excellent press in the UK. The current exhibition in Greece will continue until September 20.

In addition to paintings, the Greek audience presents installations, photographs, drawings, archival material, stage sets, covers of magazines.

Artist, graphic designer and Lyubov Popova (1889-1924) was a prominent member of the avant-garde movements such as Suprematism, Cubism, kubofuturizm, constructivism. Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1956) - artist and photographer, one of the leaders of Russian avant-garde. Paintings Rodchenko and Popova have been saved by the late avant-garde art collector George Costakis, who in 1978 left the Soviet Union, giving most of its outstanding collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery. A relatively small part of the collection was enough for a museum of modern art in the Greek Thessaloniki, which is now the only museum of Russian avant-garde in the world

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