Moma will continue the project "Modernism without manifesto"

From November 28 to January 14, the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art (MMOMA) will present the second part of the project “Modernism without Manifesto” - an art history research based on the collection of Russian art of the 20th century, Babichev, transferred to the museum space.

The first exhibition of the project was held in MMOMA in the fall.

According to the organizers of the second exhibition (the curatorial group is Roman Babichev, Nadia Plungan, Maria Silina, Alexander Strukova), she will continue the main idea of ​​the project about the indivisibility of Soviet modernism at the avant-garde and rearguard and present one of the most interesting and so far insufficiently known to the wide circle-the Leningrad School of the 1920s and the 1950s.

The exposition will include more than 250 works-painting, sculpture, graphics, lithography-students of Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Vladimir Lebedev, Pavel Filonov, Casimir Malevich and many other artists who, after 1932, did not integrate into the conformist system of socialist realism and sacrificed the audience to continue their formal and plastic experiments.

The collection of Roman Babichev has been formed over the past 25 years and has about four thousand objects of Russian art of the 20th century.

The works from the collection were repeatedly exhibited at exhibitions of the leading museums of Russia and served as a material for extensive art history research. The results of the analytical work of the curatorial group formed the basis of the five -volume publication and the exhibition project “Modernism without Manifesto”.