Exhibition of artworks from QUARTA Gallery collection in ROSINKA INTERNATIONAL RESIDENTIAL COMPOUND

QUARTA Gallery presents exhibition of artworks from its collection to bring echo of the large-scale culture history exhibition project dedicated to one period of Russian national history which is traditionally labelled by scholars as the “Thaw” which is currently going on in Tretyakov Gallery.

The “Thaw” refers to the period from the early 1950s to the early 1960s when Nikita Khrushev's policies of de-Stalinization and peaceful coexistence with other nations brought many freedoms into all spheres of life: the media, arts, and culture; international festivals; foreign films; uncensored books; and new forms of entertainment on the emerging national TV, ranging from massive parades and celebrations to popular music and variety shows, satire and comedies. Such political and cultural updates all together helped liberate the minds of millions and changed public consciousness of several generations of people in the Soviet Union.

From another side this period gave start to new communist ideas of exploration of new fields to develop the ideas of “bright Soviet future” coming true: research of Northern territories and North Pole, expanding agricultural projects to the deserts of Central Asia (so-called “Virgin Lands”), building new railway stations and new towns in the forests of wild Siberia. Hundreds of thousands of people went to explore uninhabited territories of the Soviet Union and develop new projects.

Many new art trends appeared reflecting new “fresh winds” and ideas and freedoms: Soviet impressionism, severe style, kinetic art, new Soviet avant-guard, non-conformism.

QUARTA Gallery presents artworks from Arctic and Virgin Lands series by Vyacheslav Stekolschikov (born in 1938), paintings and graphics by Evsey Reshin (1916 — 1978), industrial landscape by Inna Mednikova (born in 1926), “Working Woman” from the Siberian series by Leonid Usaitis (1924 — 1984), etudes by Evgeny Rastorguev (1920 — 2009), serigraphs by Russian kinetists Galia Bitt and Sasha Grigoriev from the Album “The Movement Group. Kinetic Art in Russia 1962-1972” issued in Nuremberg, Germany in 1972 when the group was prohibited in the Soviet Union. All these artists are famous representatives of “Thaw” period and their artworks show the variety of styles and new movements of that time.

From April 1 to May 31

Community and Sport Center

Moscow Rural, Krasnogorsk Region, village Angelovo, IRC “Rosinka”

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