Exhibition for the Blind and Visually Impaired "See the Invisible"

March 9, 2017, Kazan - March 9, the opening ceremony of the unique exhibition “See the Invisible” will be held at the Khazine National Art Gallery located in the Kazan Kremlin.

“See the invisible” is a joint project of Sberbank, Visa payment system and the Pushkin Museum. This is Russia’s first exposition of tactile paintings that reproduce famous paintings from the museum’s collection and are made using innovative technology especially for the blind and visually impaired. The acquaintance of this category of visitors with the masterpieces of fine art is usually limited to sculpture, fragments of architecture, and objects of decorative art. The exhibition “Seeing the Invisible” is aimed at making accessible to the blind people that area of material culture, the perception of which is difficult due to congenital or acquired characteristics.

Six masterpieces were selected for the exhibition from the collection of the Pushkin Museum: “Annunciation” by Sandro Botticelli, “Madonna and Child” by Lucas Cranach the Elder, “Still Life with Attributes of the Arts” by Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin, “Attack of the Jaguar on the Horse” by Henri Russo, “A, are you jealous? ”Paul Gauguin,“ Old Jew with a Boy ”by Pablo Picasso. Tactile paintings using the technology of embossed printing were created on their basis: photographs of the paintings were specially processed, such textures were selected and those features of the image that were important for understanding the plot by blind and visually impaired people were worked out.

Sighted visitors will be able to discover a fundamentally new tactile experience in perceiving paintings and understand the sensations of blind people thanks to the dark glasses that will be issued at the entrance to the exhibition.

At the exposition in Kazan, for the first time, a tactile copy of Ilya Repin’s painting “Portrait of O.S. Alexandrova-Gaines”, the original of which is stored in the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, will be exhibited. In each city, the exhibition “See the Invisible” will be replenished with a picture of the local museum.

For the first time, the exhibition "See the Invisible" opened on November 13, World Blind Day, at the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin. Now she goes to the federal level. In Kazan, the exposition will be presented until April 12, 2017. The next destination of the exhibition will be Volgograd.