Last week, Mikhail Shvydkoy, the international culture envoy to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, hit out at the alterations, describing them as politically motivated. But they have also been denounced by others. The moves are described by some as part of an effort to correctly attribute the contribution of Ukrainian artists to art history. Similar decisions have been made regarding other artists like Kazimir Malevich, Ilya Kabakov, Sonia Delaunay-Terk and Louise Nevelson, who were also born in modern-day Ukraine when it was under the control of the Russian empire.
USA MUSEUM RUSSIAN COLLECTION UPDATE
The National Gallery told the Guardian last year that it was “an appropriate moment to update the painting’s title to better reflect the subject of the painting”.
USA MUSEUM RUSSIAN COLLECTION SERIES
The reattributions in New York follow moves at the National Gallery in London last year to change the name of another of Degas’s dancer series from Russian Dancers to Ukrainian Dancers, since the subjects of Degas’s work, judged by their costumes, probably came from what is now Ukraine, which was then part of the Russian empire. “We should not replace the ignorance shown in the previous identification with a new type of ignorance,” its author Vartan Matiossian wrote. Separately, an article in Hyperallergic described the Met’s attribution changes as “misguided”. The Armenian-American news outlet Asbarez objected to the painter’s reattribution and noted that the Met had acknowledged that Aivazovsky was “born into an Armenian family in the Crimean port city of Feodosia on the Black Sea”. It also extends the Zimmerli's Russian holdings firmly into the twenty-first century.But the seascape painter Ivan Aivazovsky, whom the Met had also changed from Russian to Ukrainian, was abruptly relisted as Armenian on Thursday, after an outcry from New York’s Armenian community. The gift of the Claude and Nina Gruen Collection builds on and consolidates the museum’s strength in the art of Russia and the republics of the former Soviet Union, which began with the acquisitions of the George Riabov Collection in 1990 and the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union in 1991. This presentation of the Gruens’ gift to the museum includes works by major artists such as Ilya Kabakov, Erik Bulatov, Victor Pivovarov, Mikhail Roginsky, and Eduard Gorokhovsky, as well as works by a new generation of post-Soviet-period and emerging artists. The collection spans several generations, underscoring the significant ways that changes in the social, economic, and political spheres influenced Soviet nonconformist and Russian art.
They were particularly interested in the work of artists active from the 1950s after the death of Joseph Stalin, a period known as the Thaw, to the present time. The recently added works exemplify the wide range of subjects, styles, and approaches of important Russian artists who had far-reaching impact on the development of contemporary art in the former Soviet Union and beyond.Ĭlaude and Nina Gruen began their collection of contemporary Russian art in 1984. The Gruen Collection was bequeathed to the Zimmerli in 2005 and is gradually being transferred to the museum this exhibition marks the first time many of these works have been shared with the public. His exhibition highlights works newly acquired from the Claude and Nina Gruen Collection of Contemporary Russian Art.
0 kommentar(er)
