At the Gallery of Modern Art of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, the opening of the exhibition “Russia. Realism. XXI Century"

On December 7, 2018 at 11.00 am, the Gallery of Modern Art of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan opens, after a major renovation, the renovated halls of the project of the Cultural and Exhibition Center of the Russian Museum in Kazan - “Russia. Realism. XXI Century". The attention of viewers will be offered the work of contemporary realist artists (Marina Alekseeva, Nikolai Blokhin, Ekaterina Borodavchenko, Alexander Velichko, Alexander Vinogradov,  Vladimir Dubosarsky, Rinat Voligamsi, Ilya Gaponov, Dmitry Gretsky and Yevgenia Kats, Vadim Grigoriev-Bashun, Alexander Dashevsky, Irina Drozd , Frol Ivanov, Polina Kanis, Kirill Koteshov, Dmitry Loktionov, Alexander Morozov, Olga Osnach, Pavel Otdelnov, Ekaterina and Igor Pestov, Vitaly Pushnitsky, Kerim Ragimov, Denis Saunin, Hamid Savkuev, Victor Safonkin, Maria Safro Peninsula, Alexander Timofeev, Alexander Tokarev, Mikhail Khazin, Alan Hatagty, Kiril Chelushkin), they do not represent a particular creative association, and are working in their individual  direction. Many of these masters are brought together by the desire to fix in a sharp, sometimes provocative form a new point of view, under which the realistic tradition is now being considered. This is not the usual view of the realism of the XIX or XX century, first “critical”, then “socialist”. The exhibition presents various ways of developing a realistic tradition in the works of modern Russian artists working on the verge of academism, photorealism, and other variations of this trend that emerged in the last decades of the twentieth century. In the modern world, the forms and language of art are changing, the traditional genre is filled with other content. The desire for a sober assessment of the Soviet period of history, the theme of the "closed" city, the urban landscape, the industrial space, the role of man and his place in the modern world are questions that concern artists. Their work is distinguished by the so-called extra-mathematics, an addiction to a statement of state of affairs. For the first time, Kazan painters, portrait masters and story paintings Ilnur Siraziev, Irik Musin, as well as young artist Alexei Tsybisov, whose works selected by the curators, fit into the concept, take part in this unique, grand exhibition. The exhibition in Kazan at the site of the updated Contemporary Art Gallery of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan demonstrates, in addition to traditional, innovative genres and types of art: installation, media art, which greatly expands the possibilities of broadcasting and the communicative functions of modern art. The exhibition includes works from the collection of the Russian Museum, the Cultural Foundation Ekaterina, the Triumph Gallery, the Artwin Gallery Galleries, the Marina Gisich Galleries, the Anna Nova Galleries, the Evgeny Hamina collections, as well as works owned by the authors.