"Bathing the Red Horse" by Kuzma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin as an image of the history of Soviet Russia. 18+

On January 17, Gallery A3 of the Association “Exhibition Halls of Moscow” will open the exhibition of curators Dmitry Plotkin and Lyubov Butko “Bathing the Red Horse” Kuzma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin as an image of the history of Soviet Russia ”as part of two expositions“ The Red Horse of the Revolution ”and“ The Beginning of a New Era ".

In culture, one of its most important dominants is historical memory and its artistic understanding. The project “The Red Horse of the Revolution” presents a very timely, modern and relevant appeal to our recent history, to an era in the life of a people united by the USSR, which is now painfully conceptualizing its new state. Many factual materials, myths and the desire to lighten the past, giving it a more positive sound, take part in this spiritual work.

The author of the project is Dmitry Plotkin, who for 30 years has been consistently exploring the phenomenon of human civilization and its main component - Culture, this time offers the viewer his understanding of the historical process, as a kind of periodically repeating “canon”.

To do this, he uses a variety of tools. On the one hand, these are paintings, the presence of which, in addition to chronicles and posters, turns the project into an artistic one. And here is a very accurate hit with the choice of authors who wrote canvases-paraphrases on the famous painting of Petrov-Vodkin “Bathing the Red Horse”. Each artist was able to brilliantly express the main points of the project, defining it in a philosophical message.

The large hall presents the works of Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Olga Kulagina, Dmitry Plotkin, Igor Solovyov and Alexander Elmar.

The picture of Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin himself demonstrates a romantic message - his contemporaries waited and wanted changes and were not afraid of the coming violence.

Olga Kulagina’s work “The Birth of the Red” conveys the idea of a creative force leading to the emergence of a “new galaxy”…

The picture of Dmitry Plotkin “The Universal River of Absolute Love” shows the blood-red element of the desire to build a new life, despite any sacrifice.

The canvas “Life” by Igor Solovyov refers to the time when the process of creating the “New World” turns into an everyday routine devoid of feat.

The picture of Alexander Elmar’s “Horse Bled” puts the final verdict on the Great Era and portends the advent of a new time.

The second important language is chronicle photography, objectively covering the exploits and tragedies of our recent history.

And finally, another important expressive language in this project is the posters, which lead an uncompromising dialogue with chronicles, allowing you to more fully experience the historical truth.

This part of the project can be seen in the small hall, where the satellite exhibition of the project, “The Beginning of a New Era,” opens (curated by Lyubov Butko, partner of the art project, Rarita Gallery). It presents rare pre-revolutionary and Soviet posters, prints, paraphernalia of the Soviet era. Starting an excursion into the past with the Last Judgment exhibit in 1906, viewers will see all the main stages of the country’s life, right up to 1991. They look into an old suitcase with personal belongings and documents of a Soviet man…

Gallery opening hours are Tuesday-Sunday.

Opening hours: 11:00 - 20:00

Cost: 100 rubles - full; 50 rubles - preferential

Gallery A3 Associations "Exhibition Halls of Moscow"