"Hazine" invites to the opening of the exhibition "Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov. Exhibition of works by teachers and educational works by students"

March 14, 2014, at 16.00, at the National Gallery of Art "Hazine, "an    exhibition" Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after VI Surikov. Exhibition of works by teachers and educational works  by  students"   is due to open.

More than 100 paintings, drawings, sculptures in the exhibition reflect the creative processes taking place within the walls of MSAAI named after V.I. Surikov and its branch in Kazan.

Institute, founded in 1934,  at  the initiative of outstanding  painter and art historian Igor  Emmanuilovich  Grabar, is descended from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (pre-revolutionary period), and VKhUTEMAS VHUTEIN (the first years after the revolution). Institute teachers were outstanding domestic masters of fine art: A.A. Dejneka , A.V. Lentulov, S.V. Gerasimov, V.A. Tabor, A.A. Osmerkin, M.G. Manizer, E.A. Kibrik, T.T. Salakh,  A.M. Gritsay D.D. Jilinsky.

A landmark event in the history of the institution and in the history of art education in Tatarstan was the opening  in 2008 MSAAI branch in Kazan.

The walls of MGAHI left hundreds of talented artists, sculptors, graphic artists, architects and art historians. Among the graduates and current students, a lot of representatives from Tatarstan.

The most eminent citizens of Kazan – graduates of MSAA of  past decades are I.K. Zaripov (1939-2012) and A.A. Abzgildin (1937-2013), whose art works are  presented at the exhibition since the very beginning of their career. The remarkable fact: two paintings at the exhibition by I.K.Zaripov – is a coursework taken during training and stored in the educational-methodical fund of MSAAI.

The exhibition opening at the gallery "Hazine"  is the first joint exhibition of works by lecturers  and students of  Moscow institution, lecturers  and students of Kazan branch.

Exhibition will last till April 13.

Press service of RT Ministry of Culture, according to the press service of the museum