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Tatyana Golikova and Assistant to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Saida Mirziyoyeva opened the exhibition “Light between the Worlds”
Tatyana Golikova and Assistant to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Saida Mirziyoyeva opened the exhibition “Light between the Worlds”
Tatyana Golikova and Assistant to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Saida Mirziyoyeva opened the exhibition “Light between the Worlds”
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Tatyana Golikova and Assistant to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Saida Mirziyoyeva opened the exhibition “Light between the Worlds”
Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Tatyana Golikova and Assistant to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Saida Mirziyoyeva opened the exhibition “Light between the Worlds” at the State Historical and Art Museum “New Jerusalem” in the Moscow Region. Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Marat Khusnullin, Assistant to the President of Russia Vladimir Medinsky, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Uzbekistan to Russia Botirjon Asadov also took part in the opening of the exhibition.
“The significance of the exhibition lies in its major contribution to understanding the artistic heritage of the 20th century. This was a time when art tried to understand the social transformations that were taking place in society. The works of modernism from the 1920s and 1930s are presented here, and each of them is a diverse language and philosophy of that time. All the works carry something new, lift the curtain on something that we may not have known,” noted Tatyana Golikova. “The value of the exhibition is that it was born thanks to the cooperation between the New Jerusalem Museum and the I.V. Savitsky Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan. This is not just a diplomatic step in the cultural sphere, this is our strategic cooperation in the humanitarian sphere.”
The New Jerusalem Museum, together with the Foundation for the Development of Culture and Arts of Uzbekistan, presents a large-scale exhibition project, Light Between Worlds, dedicated to the little-studied layer of Soviet, Uzbek and Russian modernism of the 1920s and 1930s. The exhibition includes more than 160 paintings and graphic works by 40 artists, including Alexander Volkov, Solomon Nikritin, Alexander Shevchenko, Kliment Redko and others, from the collections of the New Jerusalem Museum and the I.V. Savitsky Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan.
“Today we are proud to present masterpieces from the unique collection of the Nukus Museum, which houses one of the largest collections of Russian avant-garde in the world. 80 works of painting and graphics arrived from our country, from the “Louvre in the Desert”, which became home to the creative works of many Russian artists thanks to the mission of Igor Savitsky. I would like to separately emphasize the importance of this exhibition in the context of the expanding cultural dialogue between Uzbekistan and Russia. Today, our countries are actively developing cooperation, including in the fields of culture, education, creative economy and heritage preservation. We implement joint projects, support creativity, and strengthen the infrastructure for cultural initiatives. Such exhibitions become points of contact, living bridges between our peoples. Especially when it is a common history,” Saida Mirziyoyeva emphasized.
The exhibition is conceived as a meeting of two major museum collections of 20th-century art. The previous inter-museum project of a similar scale with the participation of the Savitsky Museum, built on the comparison of two collections, took place in 1989, when the book “Avant-garde, stopped in its tracks” was published together with the Russian Museum.
The exhibition “Light Between Worlds” at the New Jerusalem Museum will allow us to take a fresh look at the artistic process of the 1920s and 1930s, in all its complexity and diversity.
“After viewing the exhibition, there are many positive emotions. Such a profound idea, such wonderful works that inspire. And I want to say thank you for this idea and wonderful organization. This is a good cultural bridge that strengthens the ties between our country and Uzbekistan. I want to wish this exhibition that as many people as possible visit it, get inspired, so that joint work continues in other cities of Russia and Uzbekistan,” said Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin.
The collections of the New Jerusalem Museum and the I.V. Savitsky Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan have in common that to this day their place in “museum construction” and the contents of their collections remain unexplored. Both collections were formed in conditions when many works of art remained outside the official cultural field. Therefore, a separate emphasis of the exhibition is the history of “museum construction”.
“I was lucky to attend the opening of a similar exhibition at the Pushkin Museum seven or eight years ago – the state museum from Nukus and Pushkin. I know firsthand what the attendance was, how many surprised visitors there were. And of course, after that exhibition, there were many more friends of Uzbek culture. I am sure that after this wonderful exhibition, which we were lucky to open now, there will be even more friends of Uzbekistan, because we are connected by centuries-old historical ties that are based on neighborhood, respect for each other, love for a common culture, a common heritage. And now another wonderful cultural bridge, as was said, connects our countries. And let there be as many of these bridges, these ties as possible,” emphasized Vladimir Medinsky, Aide to the President of Russia.
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