All-Russian exhibition project "MEMORY". Dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory. Online show

The 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) is dedicated to the large-scale All-Russian exhibition project "MEMORY", organized by the TLC of Russia. The project manager is Konstantin Khudyakov, vice president of the Russian Academy of Arts, chairman of the Volga branch of the Russian Academy of Arts, president of the TSHR. In 2020, the Creative Union of Artists of Russia received a grant from the Russian Cultural Foundation for the implementation of the project. A full-fledged implementation of the project, including the organization of a traveling exhibition "Memory" in the regions of the Russian Federation (Belgorod-Sevastopol-Stavropol-Volgograd-St. Petersburg), holding creative meetings with curators, publishing a collective monograph "Memory" with a literary-memoir block "Children of War" became possible, thanks to the support of the Russian Academy of Arts and the Volga branch of the Russian Academy of Arts, the Department for Work with the Regions of the Russian Academy of Arts, the Regional Branch of the Urals, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Academy of Arts, the Moscow Union of Artists and the Artists’ Studio named after V.V. Vereshchagin of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

Curators of the project: Maxim Kireev, Alexander Beglov, Alexander Shklyaruk, Sergey Denisov, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Nadezhda Kargapolova.

Design: Denisov / Kolesnikov.

Project coordinator: Ekaterina Fomicheva.

Project Director: Konstantin Akimov.

The final part of the exposition of the exhibition project "Memory" is held in the halls of the State Geological Museum. V.I. Vernadsky RAS. On December 3, 2020, a vernissage took place, a photo and video filming of the mobile exhibition was carried out.

The exhibition dates remain the same: from 3 to 20 December 2020, the format of the display is changing, taking into account the new requirements for working with visitors in Moscow museums - an online display of the exhibition "Memory" on the website of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia.

At the opening of the exhibition project "Memory" in the Museum. Vernadsky was attended by: project manager K. V. Khudyakov, curators M. V. Kireev, A. I. Beglov, A. F. Shklyaruk, N. P. Chibisov, Moscow artists - participants in the project.

The implementation of the All-Russian exhibition project "MEMORY" took place in three stages:

The 1st stage was organized in early spring - the work of the Expert Council and curators: competitive selection of works of fine art for the traveling exhibition and album / monograph "Memory"; collection and literary-editorial processing of the memoirs of artists for the section "Children of War" (collected memoirs of the older generation of artists and artists - members of the Russian Academy of Arts, living in Moscow and the regions).

The second stage of the project was implemented with the participation of the Military-Historical Museum of Fortifications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Mikhailovskaya Battery Museum Complex, the Stavropol Regional Museum of Fine Arts, the Vernadsky State Geological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Belgorod, Volgograd and St. Petersburg branches of TSHR - organization of the mobile exhibition "Memory" in the regions of the Russian Federation:

August 4-20, Belgorod, Exhibition Hall "Russia";

August 27-September 17, Sevastopol, the Mikhailovskaya Battery museum complex;

September 24 - October 11, Stavropol, Stavropol Regional Museum of Fine Arts;

October 19 - November 8, Volgograd, Children’s Art School No. 11;

November 14-28, St. Petersburg, exhibition hall of the St. Petersburg branch of the TSHR.

3rd stage of the project - prepress and publication of the monograph "Memory". Project manager: K. V. Khudyakov. Editors-compilers, authors of articles: K. V. Khudyakov, M. V. Kireev, A. F. Shklyaruk, S. A. Kuznetsova, N. A. Kargapolova. Design by Kolesnikov / Denisov. MEMORY: monograph. Moscow. 2020.-- 352 p. from Fig. Circulation 600 copies. ISBN 978-5-6045601-1-2. The monograph "Memory" was published with a grant from the Russian Cultural Foundation.

More than 150 artists and artists from Moscow and the Moscow region, St. Petersburg, the Volga region and the South of Russia, the Urals, Siberia and the Far East, Crimea and Donbass took part in the exhibition and publishing project. The project brings together both renowned masters and young artists. The album "Memory" presents works of fine art (painting, graphics, sculpture, photography, digital graphics, multi-media), literary works, memoirs, which makes it possible to exert a multifaceted emotional impact on the viewer (and reader) by the works of modern masters using various visual receptions. I would like to emphasize the inexhaustibility of this topic, its relevance, to show the connection of people united by a common misfortune that befell our country back in 1941.

The exhibition project "Memory" became the response of Russian art workers to a significant historical event. For the first time, a virtual 3-D interactive version using GameDev and VR technologies has become an integral part of the project. Content and programming by artist Natalia Lamanova.

The Great Patriotic War, the heroic feat of the people, Victory, thanks to documentary photography and front-line sketches, were preserved in history. Painters and graphic artists restore portraits of front-line soldiers, paint thematic paintings that reflect the events of the war years, combat victories and deaths of comrades in arms, partisan war, the defeated Reichstag and the Victory Parade on Red Square.

Fine arts and artistic photography today continue to be an inseparable part of our life, documentary evidence and a figurative reflection of our knowledge and ideas about historical events. Art is the most important custodian of the country’s spiritual images, our history and culture.

The electronic presentation of the first edition of the album "MEMORY" took place on May 8, 2020, on the eve of Victory Day. The final version of the printed edition "MEMYAT" contains not only works of fine art, but also the literary-memoir block "Children of War" - memories of the war of the older generation of artists and artists. As ZK Tsereteli rightly notes, "children of war" are a particularly persistent generation, hardened by adversity and hardships. The war left a terrible mark on the fate of each of them, but the life of each is illuminated by Victory. The works of the participants of the anniversary exhibition project can be found on the websites of the Russian Academy of Arts and the Creative Union of Russian Artists.

Photographing of the opening of the exhibition in Moscow: Alexey Filonenko, Olga Kazantseva.

Video filming, virtual expositions "MEMYAT" on the TSHR website: Arseniy Steiner