On June 3, at 16:00, an exhibition of works by the famous avant-garde artist, innovator in the field of painting, sculpture, book, poster, film and theater design Alexander Rodchenko will open in the space of the museum’s large exhibition hall (second floor).
From 16:00 to 17:30 – admission to the exhibition is free.

This is a joint project Platonov Festival and Voronezh Regional Art Museum named after I.N. Kramskoy, created within the framework of the regional program of the Lumiere Gallery and the StillArt Foundation. The exhibition includes 58 silver-gelatin prints from two portfolios of the museum series, issued in an edition of 35 copies in 1994-1997, collected under the guidance of the artist’s daughter Varvara Rodchenko, Rodchenko’s grandson and a leading researcher of his work Alexander Lavrentiev, as well as gallery owner Howard Schickler. The photographs included in the portfolio and provided by the StillArt Foundation were printed by Alexander Lavrentiev and Yuri Plaksin in the artist’s darkroom from the original negatives.

The exhibition will present Rodchenko’s works from different years, from the first photographic experiments of the 1920s to the end of the 1930s: these are famous portraits of the family: the photographer’s mother, his wife Varvara Stepanova and daughter Varvara Rodchenko, as well as portraits of friends: artists, architects, poets, writers, filmmakers, employees of the magazines “LEF” and “New LEF”, including several photographs of Vladimir Mayakovsky from Rodchenko’s first photo shoot, taken in his workshop on Myasnitskaya in 1924, a portrait of Lily Brick, which became the basis for the poster of Lengiz, the authorship of Rodchenko and Mayakovsky and the famous photograph of Osip Brik, where the name of the magazine “LEF” is mounted instead of one of the lenses of the glasses. The exhibition will also include architectural surveys and photo reports by Rodchenko: the legendary “Balconies” (1925), “Stairs” (1929), “Fire Escape” (1925), as well as “Pioneer Trumpeter” (1930) and “Pioneer” (1930). It will be possible to visit the exhibition until July 16.

Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (1891-1956) – one of the leaders of the Russian avant-garde, an innovator in the field of painting, sculpture, book, poster, film and theater design, began photographing in 1924. His experimental approach to photography forever changed the history of this art form and influenced not only his contemporaries, but also determined the development of photography for decades to come. Using techniques such as shooting from an unusual angle (from top to bottom and from bottom to top), which immediately began to be called “Rodchenkovsky”; the diagonal construction of the composition, which sets the dynamics and rhythm of the frame; shooting details and close-ups; the use of double exposure and fine work with chiaroscuro contrasts, Rodchenko sought, as O. Brik wrote, to turn a familiar thing into a “seemingly never-seen construction”, to change a person’s habitual view of the environment, to expand the possibilities of “seeing things”.

The exhibition will run from June 3 to July 16, 2023.
Age limit: 12+

Ticket price:
Full – 400 rubles.
Preferential (schoolchildren, pensioners, students) – 300 rubles.
Photography: mobile devices, camera (without flash) – free of charge.
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About the organizers of the exhibition:

Lumiere Gallery is one of the oldest Moscow galleries, founded in 2001 by Natalia Grigorieva-Litvinskaya, specializing in the art of photography. The gallery presents recognized Soviet and foreign photographers, as well as contemporary authors. Over the years, the gallery has collected a collection of Soviet photography, which covers the period from the 1920s to the 1990s and includes 13,300 copyright prints. The publishing house of the Lumiere Gallery has released 16 catalogs dedicated to the classics of Soviet photography. In addition to the exhibitions, the albums “Vladimir Lagrange 1960-1990” and “Alexander Rodchenko 1920-1930” were published in 2021 by the Lumiere Gallery and the Still Art Foundation and donated to libraries and museums in Russia to popularize the art of photography in cities and regions.

The Still Art Foundation, founded by Elena Karisalova, supports the art of photography through exhibition, educational and publishing projects. In 2004, Elena decided to form a collection, marking the beginning of collecting the art of fashion photography in Russia. The aim of the regional project of the Lumiere Gallery and the Still Art Foundation is to popularize photography in cities and regions of Russia. The project introduces a wide audience to the works of the classics of Soviet photography Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir Lagrange and Naum Granovsky. Since 2021, the Gallery and the Foundation have been presenting photo exhibitions in St. Petersburg, Siberia, the Urals and the Volga region.