QUARTA Gallery presents its first exhibition. October 8 — 18. House and Museum Mouravieff – Apostol

QUARTA Gallery would like to present an exhibition "Interior within Interior. 1930 — 2015" on October 8 — 18 at House and Museum Mouravieff – Apostol (23/9 bld.1, Staraya Basmannaya street). The exhibition will work 10 days - every day from 11 am to 6 pm or any time by appointment.

A classic painting, as we perceive it starting from the Renaissance era, always conveys certain understanding of space. The artist offers us a kind of window which may overlook a garden, a church or maybe an adjacent room. The idea of the “Interior within interior” exhibition is in creating, within the interior of an old Moscow manor (Mouravieff-Apostol House), a mini-space representing various periods of Russian art of the 20^th and 21^st centuries. Small “chambers” with artworks by Russian artists recreate the atmosphere of different decades of the 20^th century, which provides the viewer with the opportunity not only to pass by and see in succession the retrospective of interior art and graphics from the 30s of the 20^th century till present time but to find his or her own point of view in its direct sense, to choose a spot in the hall revealing an unexpected perspective of several art planes simultaneously.

Near a small 1930s — 40s-styled “chamber” filled up with miniature artworks by Evsey Reshin (1916 — 1978) depicting old things in somewhat curved space you will find a classic dacha interior from 1950s-1960s created by Inna Mednikova (born in 1926) and Nadezhda Vorobieva (1924 — 2011) with familiar verandahs, lampshades and curtains.

A separate “chamber” is dedicated to the artworks of the 60s produced by Evgeny Rastorguev (1920 — 2009). Strictly speaking, they cannot be called interiors: the view from the window, the endless sky and the air become part of the artist’s workshop. It is, in fact, a workshop with one wall covered in sketches and drawings, as if they have just been created by the master.

During the 1970s and 80s the most peculiar interior space was a stage set. This is a kind of interior theater. Any space can be turned into a theater and can play with the viewer. One of the “chambers” is devoted to the theater works by Tamara Guseva (1918 — 2002), who worked at the Soviet Army Theater for a long time and whose portfolio includes several dozens of performances based on the plays by Russian, Soviet and foreign playwrights in Moscow and other cities of the country.

The Maly hall (Small Hall) presents art pieces by contemporary authors. Thus the interiors by Oleg Ivanov (born in 1975) obviously refer to the 1920s, to the experiments with David Shterenberg’s color surfaces. On the other hand, they brightly reflect the household style at the end of the Soviet period. Interiors and still lifes by contemporary artists, among which Ludmila Varlamova, Ekaterina Tikhonova, Andrey Kofman, Nina Gabrielyan and Lev Rapoport as well as photographer Dmitry Kalayazensky, reproduce modern living rooms in a city or a country house.

In the “perfect” white interior of the manor hall the worlds of things and the worlds of ideas of various artists do not contradict each other; they stay side by side provoking the viewer for a new meaning, new “space perception” and the reverse projection of the art world on reality.

We will wait for you on the Opening-day Thursday, October 8^th, 2015 at 19.00 at the manor:

23/9 bld.1, Staraya Basmannaya street, entrance from Alexandra Lukianova street (parking — 40 rubles per hour)