Expanded Vision. In celebration of Mikhail Matiushin's 150th birthday
Museum of St.Petersburg Avant-garde, The House of Matiushin - October 18th 2011 - May 13th 2012
Exhibition, timed in celebration of the 150th birthday of the Artist, musician, pedagogue and publisher Mikhail Matiushin (1861-1934). Around 60 works are presented from the funds of the State History Museum of St.Petersburg.
In the 1920s M.V.Matiushin has formulated the theory of "expanded vision", which served a methodological basis for a new movement in the Russian Avant-garde art, called "organic art". Together with a group of students in the Academy of arts and then in the GINKhUK, Matiushin attempted to prove that man does not fully utilize his natural physiological abilities and is able to expand the limits of vision of the surrounding world. The artist, studying the reality, must then paint not fragments of reality but the whole infinite space, a single existence of objects and the environment free of unnecessary details.
The exhibition presents graphic works created in the 1920s-1930s, some of which clearly illustrate his theoretical developments. Sketches and drawings, done with a pencil, allow to form an idea about the artist's vision of the world, nature, the image of man. Most of the works are exhibited for the first time.
Translated from the State Museum of History of St.Petersburg official website. (Russian).
Location and Contact Information:
The State Museum of History of St.Petersburg, Museum of St.Petersburg Avant-garde, The House of Matiushin
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