UniCredit Bank has prepared to Muscovites a gift to the birthday of the beloved city. September 1, at the branch "Bolshaya Gruzinskaya" (Bolshaya Gruzinskaya buil. 58-60) will be opened the exhibition "My Moscow. The works of artists of the Russian postvanguard from the art collection of UniCredit Bank". Moscow landscape artists of the first half of the XX century are occupied a special place in the collection of UniCredit Bank. Graphic sheets of Ballantyne, Safronova Antonina and Nikolai Volkoff reveal a new series of public screenings of works from the collection of the Bank.
The exhibition will be opened for visitors since 01.09.2015 till 30.11.2015.
The Chairman of the Board of JSC UniCredit Bank, Mikhail Alekseev, in anticipation of the opening of the exhibition said: "For our Bank Moscow is a special city – here for almost 26 years ago was based UniCredit Bank, and long time relationship with the capital of Russia was reflected even in the name of our Bank, which was once called international Moscow Bank. We are therefore pleased to contribute to the cultural life of Moscow, and we hope that our exhibition will be of interest to our customers, and a wide circle of art lovers".
The exhibition will be presented five works, each of which has its own amazing story. Nikolai Volkov painted a watercolor. The handwriting of the artist cannot be confused with anything else – the whole plane consists of light paintings watercolor stains – trees, houses, people like dissolved in the flow of light and air. Landscape "On the Yauza" was written in 1931, it is a city shrouded in mist, the streets are deserted – the artist is trying to abstract from what is happening in the country in the difficult 1930-ies and paints the town outside the time of historical events.
In 1931 was created and works of Antonina Sofronova, presented at the exhibition. Favorite place in Moscow for the artist the surroundings of her home were in a Large Afanasyevsky lane, located between the Arbat and Prechistenka embankment. Two gouaches Antonina Safronova "Mosgas Seafront and the Area near the Stone bridge" to show Moscow lyrical and weightless, as if escaping from the eyes. Another look at the capital, but already in the years of the great Patriotic war are watercolors of Tatyana Mavrina. The artist is well known for the design of more than 200 books in the USSR. During the war Tatiana Mavrina painted Moscow, realizing that everyone in town can in one minute to disappear, and trying to at least in pictures to preserve the atmosphere already dilapidated Moscow streets and churches.
In the collection of UniCredit Bank are two works of the artist – in 1943 she created the image of the Church of St. Nikita and St. Gregory Neokesariyskogo. Mavrina has made sketches blindly, in a coat pocket – in the Moscow military drawing of man in the street could be considered as a spy. At home she was restored exterior, the buildings, and took it for her paintings.
The exhibition "My Moscow. The works of artists of the Russian postvanguard from the art collection of UniCredit Bank" takes place: a Large Georgian buil. 58 – 60, metro Belorusskaya. The admission is free.
