The exhibition is
devoted to the 25th
anniversary of the «Pushkinskaya -10» Art Center and the 40th
anniversary of the exhibition held at the House of Culture named
after I.I.Gaz (1974) that has shown the art that existed along with
the official art in Leningrad. The «Pushkinskaya -10» Art Center
is both cultural environment and experimental laboratory that
encourage people to form their own view on life and develops the
ability to stand for ones views not only in creative but also social
environment. Currently the Art Center has about forty private art
studios of the artists and musicians, six galleries following
different directions in art, as well as two musical clubs, producer
center and the Museum of Non-Conformist Art.
The
exhibition takes place in the Marble Palace and consists of two
parts. The retrospective part is dedicated to the participants of the
exhibition at the House of Culture named after I.I. Gaz, and
comprises the works from the Museum of Non-Conformist Art. The museum
has examples of «non-official» art dated from 1956 untill today in
its collection, and the Archive where all these works are collected
and preserved. The Museum of Non-Conformist Art is a kind of a bridge
between pre-revolutionary Saint-Petersburg and the Saint-Petersburg
of today, between the Russian Avant-garde of the first quarter of the
XXth century and the Avant-gardeof the third millennium. The
exhibition at the State Russian Museum shows the works of such
representatives of the non-official culture of Leningrad as
A.Arefyev, A.Basin, A.Belkin, V.Viderman, V.Gavrilchik, Y.Zharkikh,
G.Zubkov, V.Rokhlin, E.Rukhin, N.Sazhin, G.Ustygov, V.Shagin, and
others.
The main section of
the exhibition shows the works from the «Pushkinskaya -10» squat of
different periods of time. This section includes paintings, graphical
works, objects and installations by such artists as L.Borisov,
V.Voinov, V.Gerasimenko, B.Grebenshchikov, V.Dukhovlinov, N. Zhilina,
S.Kovalsky, B.Koshelokhov, Y.Nikiforov, T.Novikov, I.Orlov,
A.Podobed, Y.Rybakov, E.Figurina, R.Shalamberidze and many other
artists. About hundred works represent various tendencies of the
development of art in Leningrad-Saint-Petersburg within the period of
fifty years.
The museum organizes
art performances dedicated to the 25th
anniversary of the Art Center, talks with its artists and musicians
on 27 November and 4, 11, 18 December during working hours of the
exhibition.
The exhibition is
organized with the support of the Committee of Culture of
Saint-Petersburg, the Museum of Non-Conformist Art and the Free
Culture Society
