Retrospective El Lisitsky will be held in Moscow

From November 16 to February 18, the Jewish Museum and the Tolerance Center and the State Tretyakov Gallery (GTG) will present the joint exhibition project "El Lisitsky" - the first large retrospective of the artist in Russia.

The exhibition (curator is a senior researcher at the GTG, a Russian avant -garde specialist Tatyana Goryacheva) will cover all sides and stages of Lisitsky’s creative path.

The early period will be presented in the Jewish Museum , where posters will be shown (including the poster with a “wedge red Bely”, provided by the Russian State Library), theatrical work, rays, photo collages, typography, photomont, manuscripts and documentary photographs.

The new Tretyakov Gallery will present about 200 works - ranges and architectural projects, sketches of exhibition design projects, photographs from the GTG collection.

Here, for the first time in Russia, six paintings of Lisitsky from the largest foreign meetings will be shown - in domestic museums there is not a single picturesque work of the artist. Lisitsky created these works in Germany in the early 1920s, where he was directed to establish artistic contacts.

In total, the exposition will include about 400 works - painting, graphics, photographs, typographic, illustrations, posters, collages, manuscripts from the GTG meetings, the Russian State Library, the Russian State Archive of Literature and Arts, the Pompido Center (Paris, France), as well as other museums and private collections of Russia, Azerbaijani, Germany, Greece, Israeli, Netherlands, and the Netherlands, and the Netherlands, and the Netherlands and the Switzerland.