Exhibition of artists of the legendary community "Mitki"

An exhibition of works by artists of the widely known community "Mitki" will be held at the Irkutsk Art Museum. V.P. Sukachev in the framework of the festival "Cultural Capital". This was told by the director general of the museum Alexander Gimelshtein at a meeting of festival organizers with journalists. The "Cultural Capital" will be held in Irkutsk for the third time, the program will be filled with dozens of different events, concerts, workshops and creative meetings. The exhibition in the museum is one of the central events of the festival.

The idea of organizing such an exhibition came about almost a year ago, when the leader of the Mitki creative group, artist Dmitry Shagin, got acquainted with the collection of one of the museum’s branches, the Siberian Art Gallery, at Karl Marx, 23. The guest was impressed not only by the picturesque museum collection, including works in the style of the Russian primitive, but also the exhibition halls of the gallery in the Art Nouveau style. Then the discussion of a joint project began.

It is expected that the exhibition will feature about 50 works by Mitkov. The first picture for a future exhibition has already arrived in Irkutsk. This is a work entitled "Mitki brings Ivan the Terrible a new son." Recall that the painting was created as a response of Mitkov to a group of citizens addressing the Tretyakov Gallery with a demand to remove Ilya Repin’s painting “Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581”, as they, in their opinion, offend patriotic feelings.

While the painting "Mitki brings Ivan the Terrible a new son" the size of two by two and a half meters is stored in folded form. But for the exhibition, restorers of the Irkutsk Art Museum will prepare it for demonstration to the public. In particular, a new subframe will be made for the canvas. The exhibition will open in June 2016 in the Gallery of Siberian Art of the Irkutsk Art Museum during the festival "Cultural Capital".