History and culture: The exhibition “From Silver Age to Avant-Garde. Russia. 1900-1940s” in Khabarovsk

From October 15 to November 15, 2014 in the Far Eastern Art Museum (Khabarovsk) is held the exhibition “From Silver Age to Avant-Garde. Russia. 1900-1940s” from the collection of the A. A. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum (Moscow).

The purpose of the exhibition “From Silver Age to Avant-Garde. Russia. 1900-1940s” is to collect the greatest masters of the first half o the XX century in the space of the exhibition halls of Russian museums in small and medium-sized cities.

The largest section of the exhibition is dedicated to the activity of artists of the association “World of Art” who worked much in the theatre. The cooperation with enterprise of S. Diagilev in “Russian seasons” – is one of the most significant stages in the history of world musical theatre.   

Another significant phenomenon of the national theater is Russian avant-garde, which included Cubo futurism and theatrical Constructivism, and Expressionism. This line is represented in the exhibition with extremely important names of artists that have had a significant impact on the development of functional forms of scenography of modern times.

Along with the avant-garde are presented works by artists not prone to extreme innovation (B. Kustodiev, I. Bilibin). Creative activity begins at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries and they have collaborated with theaters to remain devotion to the traditional staging methods.

On the stage was recreated the "slice of life" - the real and realistic situation of the existence of heroes, which searches for the stage "atmosphere" and performing "mood".

Many performances went down in history of theatre thanks to interesting decisions of designer. Not always possible to keep the costumes and sets, and then the theatrical sketches are one of the little documentary evidence about the production. As part of the exhibition to the public are presented unique costumes and scenery for productions 1900-1940's from the collection of the A. A. Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum.