Russian Avant-gardes in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collections

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Special display of the Russian avant-garde works from the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza’s Permanent Collection and from the Carmen Thyssen Collection
Location: Rooms 42 and 43, ground floor

The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza has the most important collection of Soviet avant-garde art in Spain. Coinciding with the Contemporary Art Fair ARCO 2011 (Madrid, 16 to 20 February) with Russia as Invited Country, the Museum will be showing a new installation of its holdings of the so-called “Russian avant-gardes” in Rooms 42 and 43 on the ground floor of the Palacio de Villahermosa.


In the early decades of the 20th century a unique and unprecedented cultural renaissance took place in Imperial Russia (soon to become the Soviet Union). The Russian art world sprang to life with programmatic exhibitions, passionate manifestoes and theoretical declarations, accompanied by the rise of numerous different avant-garde movements. Some were based on outside influence, such as Cubo-Futurism and Rayonism, while others were authentic creations of the new, revolutionary Russia, such as Suprematism and Constructivism.


Visitors to the Museum will have the opportunity to learn about all these movements through a group of 35 works by artists of the stature of Chagall, Larionov, Goncharova, Stepanova, Popova, Kliun, Lissitzky and Kandinsky.

Russian Avant-gardes in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collections
From 15 February to 31 December 2011

http://www.museothyssen.org/pdf/exposiciones/vanguardias-rusas.pdf
http://www.museothyssen.org/en/thyssen/exposiciones_actuales

SCRSS Lecture: Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde Art 1900-1935

Illustrated Lecture: Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde Art 1900-1935 by Christine Lindey
Friday 2 December 7pm

Early 20th-century artists such as Goncharova, Kandinsky and Malevich created modernist art that challenged late Tsarism's aesthetic, political and social norms. In the Bolshevik era artists such as Tatlin, Popova and Rodchenko put avant-garde art at the service of the Revolution by applying modernist aesthetics to the production of textile designs, ceramics, posters and illustrations for the benefit of the working class. This illustrated lecture will explore the social, political and aesthetic debates that underlay this vibrant period in Russian and Soviet art and design. 


The Society for Co-operation in Russian and Soviet Studies (SCRSS) is a unique educational centre, based in London, which aims to promote knowledge of the culture, language and history of Russia and the former Soviet Union.
The Society caters for students, teachers, researchers, designers and all other individuals interested in Russia. It offers a library, archive and unique photographic collection. It also organises lectures, film shows and exhibitions, and facilitates professional contacts between individuals and organisations in Russia and the United Kingdom. The Society is a registered charity.

http://www.scrss.org.uk/cinemaevents.htm#avantgarde

EXHIBITION: Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde

The Art Gallery of Ontario is bringing the magic, whimsy and wonder of Marc Chagall to Toronto with a major exhibition organized by the Centre Pompidou. Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde: Masterpieces from the Collection of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, features the lush, colourful, and dreamlike art of Marc Chagall alongside the visionaries of Russian modernism, including Wassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich, Natalia Goncharova, Sonia Delaunay, and Vladimir Tatlin.

The exhibition examines how Chagall’s Russian heritage influenced and informed his artistic practice, illustrating how he at turns embraced and rejected broader movements in art history as he developed his widely beloved style.


Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde comprises 118 works from a broad array of media, including painting, sculpture, works on paper, photography, and film. The artwork is drawn entirely from the collection of the Centre Pompidou and features 32 works by Chagall and eight works by Kandinsky.

Marc Chagall The Blue Circus (1950)

Marc Chagall à Paris (French language workshop)
Durant la période d’entre-deux-guerres, Marc Chagall s’installe à Paris et travaille pour Ambroise Vollard, le grand marchant d’art. Les participants exploreront l’influence du surréalisme et du classicisme français sur l’artiste, mais aussi ses sources d’inspirations : le cirque, la Bible hébraïque et la poésie.
8 and 9 December, 10am - 1pm
Members $100 | Public $165
Additional materials fees may apply.  Please note: this workshop will be taught in French.

http://www.ago.net/chagall-and-the-russian-avant-garde