On March 28 at the New Tretyakov Gallery the exhibition “Seeing the unknown. Painting and sculpture of the XVII-XXI centuries from the funds of the Tretyakov Gallery. Spectators are waiting for more than 122 works from the funds, as well as paintings and sculptures by outstanding artists and little-known authors of the 17th-21st centuries. Cultural specialist Maria Bakaeva has compiled five reasons not to miss the new exhibition.
Most of the presented works are kept in the museum funds: they are not in the halls of the main exhibition or are rarely involved in exhibition projects. This is a unique opportunity to expand the limits of the museum’s collection, which includes 200,000 works and is regularly updated. In other words, this exhibition is a rare opportunity to get acquainted with little-known authors or unknown works of well-known artists.
Goncharova Natalia Sergeevna 1881-1962 Haymaking. 1911 Malevich Kazimir Severinovich. 1879-1935 Two sisters. 1930
From the 17th to the 21st century, the exhibition will present works spanning a wide period of history. Paintings close in plot due to time differences demonstrate the difference and evolution of plastic language and chromatic schemes. Comparing, comparing, studying, the viewer will see in a new way the famous works of the classics: Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Mikhail Roginsky, Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Nesterov and many others.
Nesterov Mikhail Vasilyevich 1862-1942 Silence. 1903
The exhibition is multifaceted. In addition to painting, sculptures by Fedot Shubin to Igor Shelkovsky and porcelain by Alexei Sotnikov, an animal sculptor and student of Vladimir Tatlin, will be presented. For the first time, viewers will see photographs of Art Nouveau interiors designed by World of Art artists Alexander Benois, Konstantin Korovin, Lev Bakst and others.
Konenkov Sergey Timofeevich. 1874-1971 Ninochka. 1951 Nikolaev Ivan Valentinovich. 1940-2021 Boss. 1974-1975
Exhibits are selected according to the principle of genre: portraits and urban landscape, everyday and historical genres. The choice of the theme of the work is always the artist’s response to certain events. Here are the festive festivities of Konstantin Makovsky and historical paintings by artists Andrei Ryabushkin and Grigory Sedov, the tragic events of Europe in the 16th century in the works of Karl Hun. The interiors also serve as a portrait of time and of man. This genre is represented by the paintings of the lyrical landscape painter Stanislav Zhukovsky. By comparing paintings within the same genre, one can see how the same motif was developed by artists of different generations.
Zhukovsky Stanislav Yulianovich. 1875-1944 Red room. 1939
The exhibition is a continuation of the digital project “My Tretyakov Gallery. From the virtual to the real. Its first part ended in February of this year. The new project combines the traditional way of exhibiting artworks and modern digital technologies – there are QR codes on the labels that will help you learn more about the exhibits.
Kandinsky Vasily Vasilievich. 1866-1944 Lake. 1910 Lentulov Aristarkh Vasilyevich. 1882-1943 Saint Basil’s Cathedral. 1913
