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Oct 24, 2024 · Curated by Alesya Veremyeva, this exhibition by Moscow’s Artwin Gallery celebrates the varied practice of artist Vladimir Chernyshev, on show in London for the first time. Featuring documentation of Chernyshev’s land-art projects and murals, alongside new objects and works on paper, ‘Heavy Water’ highlights the themes at the core of his work: creation, transformation and decay.
Gazelli Art House is a contemporary art gallery supporting a wide range of international artists, with exhibition spaces in London and Baku.
- Who Was Savitsky?
- What and Where Is Karakalpakstan?
- Who Was Lysenko?
- What Was The Avant-Garde?
- The Museum and Collection Under Babanazarova
- The Museum and Collection Today
About half a century ago, near the dusty shores of the retreating Aral Sea, Communist Party officials visited the Museum of Igor Savitsky. Savitsky, affectionately called “Junkman” by his friends and associates, was an artist. Under the nose of State officials (and sometimes with their funds), he was amassing a collection of over eighty thousand ba...
The full name of the Nukus Museum is “The State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan named for I.V. Savitsky.” Its common short name, Nukus, is taken from the city it is located in, the capital of the Republic of Karakalpakstan. The Karakalpak people, a Turkic ethnic group, first appear in historical records around the 16th century. The...
Though historians have constructed a patchwork of the painter’s life, remarkably little is certain about Lysenko. Today, he’s most often recognized as Vladimir, but some records paint him as Yevgeny Lysenko. He first visited Uzbekistan’s capital, Tashkent, in either 1918 or 1919. From 1925 to 1929, he studied under Kazimir Malevich, pioneer of the ...
The Nukus Museum houses the world’s second largest collection of Russian avant-garde art. Rather than a specific style, avant-garde refers to a period during which many modernist subcurrents flowed. The phrase is derived from French military terminology and roughly translates to “advance guard.” Soldiers in the advance guard march ahead of the main...
Savitsky collected until his death in 1984. During his final days, the collector named Marinika Babanazarova as his successor. The daughter of a close friend, Babanazarova jealously protected the collection for thirty-one years. In January 1998, a New York Times article about the museum prompted 85 artists and scholars to charter a flight from New ...
The museum went through several leadership changes after Babanazarova was ousted and fears for the collection remained. Then, in 2016, the country’s first post-Soviet change of power occurred. Islam Karimov, who had held power since before independence and held the country in a conservative mold of its former Soviet self, suddenly died. He was repl...
Founded in 2010 by Mila Askarova, and with galleries in London and Baku, Gazelli Art House has a specialist focus in promoting art from Azerbaijan and its neighbours to further a greater understanding of the rich linguistic, religious and historical ties that connect this geography.
3 days ago · From October 31 to November 16, Artwin Gallery, supported by collector Zoya Galeeva, will present Vladimir Chernyshev’s first solo exhibition in London. The "Heavy Water" exhibition will showcase new works by this Nizhny Novgorod artist, including seven graphic works, two wooden objects, a mural, and photo documentation of his rural drawings and installations.
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