Chagall and the Russian Avant-garde
Musée de Grenoble - 5 March to 13 June 2011
Marc Chagall, Double portrait au verre
de vin, Huile sur toile © ADAGP. ©
Collection Centre Pompidou,
dist. RMN / Adam Rzepka.
After a first showing in Tokyo, and before moving to Toronto, the Centre Pompidou extramuros exhibition Chagall et l’avant-garde russe/Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde will be on view at the Musée de Grenoble from 5 March to 13 June 2011. More than 150 works from the collections of the Musée National d’Art Moderne will enable visitors to rediscover an especially fertile period in the history of 20th century art : the Russian avant-garde, with, as the thread, the fascinating world of one of the great poets of modern painting, Marc Chagall.
The goal of the Centre Pompidou’s extramuros exhibitions is to highlight the collection of the Musée National d’Art Moderne by exhibiting works from it in other institutions. In Grenoble, the Centre Pompidou is, for the first time, presenting, in this spirit, the finest works in its collection of Russian art, including its jewels, Chagall and Kandinsky. The exhibition is being organized more particularly around Chagall, and will shed light on the links he had with Russian avant-garde art circles. This slice of Russian art took on very unusual forms, hailing as it did from a popular art deep-rooted in the country’s culture, resulting from a break with academicism, and from many exchanges with the European avant-gardes in Paris, Berlin and Munich. Paintings and sculptures reveal this new visual language, along with drawings, prints, photographs, posters, and projects for sets, reliefs and constructions.
This outstanding exhibition, bringing together more than 150 pieces, and including 24 other artists around Chagall, puts the birth and blossoming of this avant-garde into perspective, from neo-Primitivism to Constructivism, by way of cooperative ventures with the world of spectacle.
For this event, the Musée de Grenoble has come up with special ways for accommodating the public, and called upon its cultural partners to construct around the show a programme of meetings involving a mixture of film, music, literature and poetry. After the exhibition has been shown in Grenoble it will travel on to the Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto.
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