Art Roundup – December 2014

Nearly the end of the year, folks, and time for yet another roundup of Russian and related art.

1. In the Museum of Russian Icons, Moscow, there is an exhibition of the works of priestly artist and missionary Alexander Men’. It runs till December 16.
2. At the Yasnaya Polyana Museum-estate of Leo Tolstoy is an exhibition “The Unknown Mashkov“, which runs till December 9.
3. In Beijing’s Chinese Academy of Oil Painting is an exhibition of the works from the Melnikov School in the Repin Academy of Fine Arts. Titled “The Distant Transparent“, this continues till December 15.
4. Barcelona’s La Pedrera hosts an exhibition of the constructivist Lazar (El) Lissitzky. Titled “El Lissitzky. The Experience of Totality“, it ends Jan 18, 2015.
5. Till December 7 at the Museum of Russian Art, Jersey City, NJ, is an exhibition of the Ukrainian circus artiste and artist Irene Koval.
6. If you are interested in contemporary works of art from Central Asia, a good place to see what’s happening is the ENE Central Asian Art site. Ene means ‘mother’ in Turkmen and it is a Singapore-based organisation. Check out their gallery here.
7. And there is an exhibition of Armenian dolls in Yerevan – traditional or French-inspired or Soviet-approved – you can find quite a collection. At the Yerevan Historical Museum, this runs to the end of the year.
8. Georgian art flowered in the 1950s after the death of Stalin, and the works of Kalandadze, Nizharadze, Bandzeladze, Tsutskiridze and others can be seen at the Georgian National Museum‘s exhibition “Post-Stalin Liberalisation in Georgian Painting“, running in Tbilisi.
9. If we do Armenian and Georgian, then surely we must do Azerbaijani as well – equal favour to these historic rivals, I say! Baku’s Museum of Modern Art has an exhibition titled “Stone”, featuring the sculptures of the Azerbaijani artist Huseyn Hagverdi.

And that’s it for the roundups of the year!

Art Roundup – May 2014

Have we got some fine events for your this month? Indeed, we have.

Animal No. 4, by Aryat Teregulov.

1. London’s Erarta Gallery is holding an exhibition of contemporary works titled the Erarta May Fair. It runs till May 24, 2014, and includes works by Aleksandr Kosenkov, Anna Taguti, Aryat Teregulov, Danja Akulin, David Plaksin, Dmitry Shorin, Ekaterina Borodavchenko, Mikhail Lezin, Rinat Minnebaev, Valery Valran, Vyacheslav Mikhailov…
2. I’m sorry to say I missed the Fabergé Eggs exhibition at Harrods. Instead, perhaps I should head to Tashkent where an exhibition titled The Spring of Land of Fire has opened at the Azerbaijan Cultural Center, showing works from Azerbaijani artists, such as Nazim Mammadov, Mammadhuseyn Huseynov, Hafiz Karimov, Ilaha Aliyeva, Humay Akhundova, Asif Jafarov and others.
3. Latvian-born sculptor and artist Vija Celmins opens her first ever exhibition in Riga: ‘Double Reality‘ runs till June 22 at the Art Museum Riga Bourse.
4. Mari Roosvalt and Mara Ljutjuk, Estonian artists, have an exhibition Traces of their works at the Estonian Embassy in Berlin. It runs till June 8.
5. Terra is an exhibition of the works of the Karelian artist Sergei Kiselev. It runs till May 25 at the Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Karelia in Petrozavodsk.

Art Roundup – November 2013

It’s the Hindu festival of lights today, folks. Happy Diwali!

And here’s a quick roundup of this month’s fun.

1. At the New Hall Art Collection in Cambridge, England, there is an exhibition of Contemporary Russian Women Artists. It runs till November 30, 2013.
2. In Dubai‘s Cuadro Fine Arts Gallery is an exploration of the condition of women, Out of Body, in the paintings and sculptures of Aidan Salakhova, an Uzbek/Azerbaijani artist. This runs till November 7, 2013.
3. Boris Chetkov’s works are on display this month (November 22-24, 2013) as part of the Russian Art Week at the Westbury Hotel in London.
4. Here’s advance warning of an exhibition of Viktor Popkov’s art at the Somerset House in London in May 2014. If you can’t wait that long, there’s a book about him Viktor Popkov: A Russian Painter of Genius recently published. Huzzah!
5. And, if you really want to check out some of the finest lifetime collections of Russian art, you could do worse than to go to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and sate your senses at the Pushkin Gallery.

Contemporary Art of the Caucasus and Central Asia

Sotheby’s held an exhibition last month as part of their sale of art from Central Asia and Caucasus. I missed it completely and am rather miffed. There were some interesting works on display, some of which I append.

The Road’s End, by Hakob Hakobyan. (1997).

Maneater of Kumaon, by Merab Abramishvili. (2005).

Mirages of Communism #1, by Alimjan Jorobayev. (1994).

Untitled (from Dreams series), by Jamol Usmanov. (2010).

The Aral Beach 2, by Almagul Menlibayeva. (2011).

D. D. Shostakovich, by Tair Salakhov. (1987).