NEW YORK, May 27 (RIA Novosti's Andrei Loshchilin). An unprecedented exhibition of Russian art to open in September was presented to New York public today.
It will bring together over 300 exhibits from renowned Russian museums - the Hermitage, the Tretyakov Gallery, and the Kremlin Museum in Moscow, the Russky (Russian) Museum in St. Petersburg - and from the Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis and other state and private collections of Russia, U.S., France, and Germany.
The "Russia!" opening in Guggenheim Museum on September 16 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the United Nations will cover 900 years of Russian culture, from ancient Russian Orthodox icons to Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid's socialist art and Oleg Kulik's installations. It will include such masterpieces as Andrei Rublyov's and Daniil Chyorny's Ascension, Ilya Repin's Barge Haulers on the Volga, Ivan Aivazovsky's The Ninth Wave, Ivan Kramskoy's Unknown Woman, Vasily Surikov's Children Storming the Snow Fortress, and Kazimir Malevich's Black Square.
"This will be one of most ambitious projects in our history - the exhibition catalogue alone will take three volumes," Thomas Krens, the Director of Guggenheim Museum, said.
Since the end of the Cold War, he said, there have been no such large and comprehensive Russian art projects. Krens underscored that the September exhibition would, among other things, feature brilliant but undeservingly overshadowed Russian works painted during the golden age of Russian art, in the 18th-19th centuries.
The exhibition will stay in New York until January 12, 2006.
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