"Exhibition Anatoly Zverev: On the threshold of a New Museum"
Exhibition “Anatoly Zverev. On the threshold of a New Museum " Exhibition Hall New Manezh 28.01.-8.03.2014 Opening 01/27/2014 at 18-00
In 2012, the Novy Manezh exhibition hosted the "Zverev on Fire" exhibition, organized by curator Polina Lobachevskaya and collector and philanthropist Natalia Opaleva. The exhibition became a sensation not only for the uniqueness of the material (miraculously preserved in a fire Zverev's works from the collection of George Costakis), but also for the level of display of 20th century art, which is destined to enter the 21st century with a new force .
Everyone who then created the exhibition, who collected the Zverev heritage scattered around the world as well as numerous visitors had no doubts: the Zverev Museum can and should culminate decades of his work and the artists works should return to viewers (counting from the first exhibition in the Tretyakov Gallery in 1999, created under direct participation of Polina Lobachevskaya).
That is why the exhibition project “Anatoly Zverev. On the threshold of a New Museum ”is not just a“ statement of intent ”. This promise is fulfilled - showing what has been done and what is to be done in the months following the show. The exposition opens the museum laboratory, where discoveries have already been made: from the design of the future halls of the AZ Museum (the design and construction of which is underway) to newly acquired works that are unknown even to specialists. Viewers will fully experience the scale of the ideas and (more importantly) the scale of the artist, who today is becoming more relevant than ever.
A separate hall, especially designed, will be devoted to the publishing work of the AZ Museum. We are talking about Here we will see unknown works of the artist, which have just been released. These are drawings for the classics (Gogol, Andersen, Apuleius) kept in archives, and the publication of Zverev's self-portraits, comparable in strength to the best self-portraits of Rembrandt or Van Gogh, as well as new scientific research that will sheds new light on the artist's biography.
The significance and value of Anatoly Zverev's legacy will be revealed by a multimedia installation that will unite the entire space. It is designed to immerse one into the artist 's world, to capture the seemingly accustomed viewer of the 21st century, to guide him through the variety of genres and forms of creativity of one of the geniuses of Russian art. For many, this exposition will come as a shock - you have never seen such a Zverev (very unusual and highly avant-garde).
A real art sensation awaits visitors to the exhibition - an event that will become a landmark for the entire Russian culture of the 21st century. The exposition will include works by Anatoly Zverev from the collection of the great collector George Costakis. The thrill is that all these highly valuable and unique works (more than six hundred items in various genres and techniques), most of which are unknown to the general public, were donated to the AZ Museum by the daughter of Georgy Dionisovich Aliki Kostaki. She is happy to return this benchmark Zverev to his homeland in order to support the artist's museum.