Previous exhibitions

Back to the page: Previous Exhibitions

Back to the List: Archive 1979 - 1999

46. AVANT-GARDE 1910 - 1921 Russian and Soviet Art from the Sverdlovsk Art Gallery Collection,
9 April - 31 May 1989

The Sara Hildén Art Museum presented the "Avant-garde 1910-1921" exhibition, which displayed Russian and Soviet art from the collection of the Sverdlovsk Art Gallery. The exhibition filled two rooms on the upper floor.

The exhibition consisted of 22 oil paintings by the following artists: Behteyev, Goncharova, Ivanov, Kandinsky, Konchalovsky, Kuprin, Labas, Larionov, Lentulov, Malevich, Malyntin, Maskov, Osmerken, Pain, Rodchenko, Rozanova, Senkin, Shterenberg and Udaltsova.

In addition to the Sverdlovsk Collection the exhibition also presented 50 popular printed pictures which were on loan from the Slavonic Department of the Helsinki University Library. Also included were 10 Russian icons from the Sara Hildén Foundation collection. A video of Sergei Eisenstein's "Potemkin" was shown as additional material.

"Avant-garde 1910-1921" was an exchange exhibition arranged in cooperation with the USSR Ministry of Culture. As agreed, the Sara Hildén Art Museum organized an exhibition at the Sverdlovsk Art Gallery which presented Finnish art from the 1960's and 1970's. The works were selected from the Sara Hildèn Foundation's own collection.

The works shown at "Avant-garde 1919-1921" had never been on public display in the USSR or elsewhere, except in Sverdlovsk.

The aim of the exhibition was to present a compact overview of the paths of Russian and Soviet Modernism in the 1910's, from cézannesque Post-impressionism and Primitivism to Cubism and Constructivism.

Catalogue:
Avant-garde 1910-1921
1989, 64 pages
Sara Hildén Art Museum Publication 38 (Text in Finnish and English)
ISSN 0357-3001
Price FIM 25

17,325 visitors attended the exhibition.