Tatyana Nazarenko at the State Russian Museum

Written by Kal Raustiala Thursday, 03 March 2011 00:26

Saint Petersburg, Russia - The State Russian Museum opens the “Fading Reality” exhibition of Tatyana Nazarenko in the Marble Palace.  The exhibition comprises more than 60 works of art.  The exhibition presents the works of Tatyana Nazarenko, one of the brightest and most expressive artists of the turn of the 20^th-21^st centuries.  The artist’s oeuvre reflects the realization of the most important tendencies of modern realistic art, which, in their turn, have constantly provoked her to look for some new expressive means.

From the mid-1970s her art excites both the viewers and the critics thus granting the right to call Nazarenko the most original artist of contemporaneity.  The intellectual and spiritual quests of Tatyana Nazarenko have found their peculiar reflection in the works of historical genre including the theme of historical memory.  In the 1990s the new language of artistic comprehension of contemporaneity brought to life the key work of the period the Transition installation.  The main characters are the people drawn into the maelstrom of perestroika - tramps, beggars, strolling musicians and street vendors.  The history has already become our reality.

 Though the exhibition is not a retrospective show it presents different periods of Nazarenko’s creative path unified by the major theme - the History of our Society.

The exhibited works have been lent by the State Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Arbat Prestige Company and Alexander Suvorov State Memorial Museum.  The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue. It will be on display till December, 16.

The State Russian Museum today is a unique depository of artistic treasures, a leading restoration center, an authoritative institute of academic research, a major educational center and the nucleus of a network of national museums of art.

The Russian Museum collection contains circa 400.000 exhibits.  The main complex of museum buildings - the Mikhailovsky Palace and Benois Wing - houses the permanent exhibition of the Russian Museum, tracing the entire history of Russian art from the tenth to the twentieth centuries.  The museum collection embraces all forms, genres, schools and movements of art.

Visit The State Russian Museum at : http://www.rusmuseum.ru/eng/museum/