Alexey Kravchenko. Secretly looking out the window 18+

The new exhibition project of the Vellum gallery is Alexey Kravchenko. Secretly looking out the window” will be held from February 14 to April 16, 2023 and will connect the three main lines of the gallery’s activities. Opening new or half-forgotten names to the general public. A study of the creativity of Korovin’s students and associates. As well as a line of symbolist artists, whose work, among other things, is emphasized in the scientific activities of the gallery and its founder, art critic L. Agafonova.

An old projector is spinning and rustling, little ballerinas are dancing on the walls. The theater stage divides the exposition into parts. In the renovated space of the Vellum gallery in the building of Gostiny Dvor, the mysterious and mysterious works of the artist Alexei Kravchenko (1889-1940) appear like on a white blank sheet. Behind the scenes - female figures, bodies, hugs. Dance moves close to ballet steps. For the first time, authentic photographs of nude models will be exhibited. They are printed from rare films preserved in the artist’s family.

Russian, Soviet artist, he won recognition as a painter in the early 1920s, later he was better known as a graphic artist and illustrator. His painting is a rarity. It has everything that relates to symbolism - mystery, understatement, imagination and half-hints. In addition, the key, famous works of the master will be shown within the framework of the project. Among them are the early "Bathers on the Volga" (1916) and "The Kiss" (1929-1930) - two faces of a man and a woman touch each other, a state of erotic trembling is transmitted by light and plasticity. In total, more than 50 exhibits will be presented, showing the incredible versatility of the master. Portraits, landscapes, book illustration, ex-libris, nude studies.

Exhibition curator, founder of the Vellum Gallery Lyubov Agafonova: “Aleksey Kravchenko was fond of admiring the female figure. He often turned not only to an illustrative narrative, but also recorded emotional experiences. The transfer of the emotional component is based on the aesthetics of Russian symbolism, Russian modernity. Throughout his life, he does not change the style, features of his forms. At the exhibition, which will last almost the entire spring, we are talking about the sensual experiences of the artist, which were expressed in these nudes.”

Age limit: 18+

Gallery Vellum: Address: Moscow, st. Ilyinka, 4. Gostiny Dvor, space 88-89. Entrance from Khrustalny Lane, between entrances 19 and 18. Opening hours: daily from 12.00 to 20.00. Entrance by tickets (300 rubles), students and pensioners - free of charge.