THAW

25 january 2007—21 february 2007

In 2001 the Marat Guelman Gallery presented the collection of more than seventy paintings, photographs and installations of the modern Russian art to the Russian Museum. Among the artists represented in the Donation of Marat Guelman collection there are such prominent names as 'new Americans' Komar & Melamid, Grisha Bruskin and Alexander Kosolapov, stars of the Ukrainian art-scene Arsen Savadov and Vasily Tsagolov, Leningraders Olga and Alexander Florensky and Oleg Khvostov, Kazakh Erbol Meldibekov, and the most noticeable Muscovites - Oleg Kulik, AEC Group, tandem of Alexander Vinogradov and Vladimir Dubosarsky and others. The Thaw, or In the Middle of the Road exhibition is arranged as an intellectual adventure that suggests to follow the history of the Gallery. Quality and significance of the exhibits promise a traveller excellent aesthetic impressions. Permanent authors of the Gallery demonstrate their most recent works.

Exhibitions

Alexey Vaulin. Living Substance

27 april—19 june 2023

Alexey Vaulin stands out as one of the most vibrant and consistent purveyors of contemporary abstract art on the Russian art scene. This exhibition spotlights around 50 of his works, spanning his career.

Parallel Universes. From Abstraction to Artefact. The Collection of Natalia Opaleva

3 march—26 june 2023

The State Russian Museum presents the exhibition project Parallel Universes. From Abstraction to Artefact showing works by 36 artists of the second half of the 20th century from the collection of Natalia Opaleva, a well-known collector, founder and general director of the AZ Museum (Anatoly Zverev). The exhibition introduces visitors of the Marble Palace to more than 200 paintings and graphic works by underground masters of the 1960s–1980s: Anatoly Zverev, Dmitri Plavinsky, Dmitry Krasnopevtsev, Oleg Tselkov, Lidia Masterkova and Ernst Neizvestny.

Also in the Russian Museum

13 april—3 july 2023 > St Michael’s Castle Leonid Sherwood (1871–1954)
2 march—19 june 2023 > St Michael’s Castle Nikolai Suetin. Ilya Chashnik

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