Russian Avantgarde. From Malevich to Rod?enko. Masterpieces from the Costakis collection

Avanguardia Russa. Da Malevi? a Rod?enko. Capolavori dalla collezione Costakis

From 03 Ottobre 2014 to 15 Febbraio 2015

Turin

Place: Palazzo Chiablese

Address: piazzetta Reale

Times: 10 am - 07.30 pm; Friday 10 am - 10.30 pm; closed on Tuesday

Responsibles: Maria Tsantsanoglou, Angeliki Charistou

Organizers:

MIBACT - Direzione Regionale per i Beni Culturali e Paesaggistici del Piemonte
Città di Torino
Museo Statale d’Arte Contemporanea di Salonicco
Ministero della Cultura e dello Sport della Repubblica Ellenica

Ticket price: full € 12, reduced € 9.50; groups € 8, specials € 4.50

Telefono per informazioni: +39 011 5790095

E-Mail info: dr-pie.comunicazione@beniculturali.it

Official site: http://www.piemonte.beniculturali.it/

Admired and famous worldwide, arrives for the first time in Italy by the State Museum of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki - in Turin from 3 October 2014 to 15 February 2015 in the central Palazzo Chiablese, exhibition space of the Royal Polo - a core of exceptional collection of Russian avantgarde George Costakis (1913 - 1970): the man in Moscow in the years immediately following the Second World War, in defiance of the prohibitions and ostracism of the Stalinist regime, he decided to methodically collect examples of experimental Russian turn of the century, saving from destruction and oblivion this vital component of the culture of the twentieth century.
The exhibition "Russian Avantgarde. From Malevich to Rod?enko. Masterpieces from the Costakis collection", with about three hundred works on display - including paintings, gouaches and watercolors, works of applied art, documents, and a group of a hundred drawings constructivist architecture - is proposed as a real encyclopedic exposition of the Russian,
representative of all the major movements of the time (from the New Impressionism and Symbolism al Cubo Futurism, Suprematism from the cosmism), rich in masterpieces of the greatest artists of those years comeMalevi?, Popova, Rodchenko, Rozanova, El Lissitzky, Stepanova.
Total immersion - curated by Maria Tsantsanoglou and Angeliki Charistou - to understand the radical and revolutionary than it has been defined by Camilla Gray "the great experiment" of twentieth century art.
An exhibition-event, therefore, never realized in our country and with a lot of "first run" exposure peak of autumn Turin, promoted by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and the Regional Tourism-Directorate for Cultural Heritage and Landscape of Piedmont , from the city of Turin, the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki with the Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Hellenic Republic, produced and organized by Skira Editore and the Global Village International.
To accompany a valuable Skira catalog, with essays by John E. Bowlt, Angeliki Charistou, Nicoletta and Maria Misler Tsantsanoglou.

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