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Russian Avant-gardes / Jean-Leon Gerome
dal 14/2/2011 al 30/7/2011

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14/2/2011

Russian Avant-gardes / Jean-Leon Gerome

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

The museum has the most important collection of Soviet avant-garde art in Spain. It will be showing a new installation of its holdings with a group of 35 works by artists of the stature of Chagall, Larionov, Goncharova, Stepanova, Popova, Kliun, Lissitzky and Kandinsky. Contemporary 'Jean-Leon Gerome': the exhibition sheds light on the most noteworthy features of his painting and sculpture from his early career in the 1840s up to his last works.


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Russian Avant-gardes in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collections

Special display of the Russian avant-garde works from the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza’s Permanent Collection and from the Carmen Thyssen Collection

The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza has the most important collection of Soviet avant-garde art in Spain. Coinciding with the Contemporary Art Fair ARCO 2011 (Madrid, 16 to 20 February) with Russia as Invited Country, the Museum will be showing a new installation of its holdings of the so-called “Russian avant-gardes” in Rooms 42 and 43 on the ground floor of the Palacio de Villahermosa.

In the early decades of the 20th century a unique and unprecedented cultural renaissance took place in Imperial Russia (soon to become the Soviet Union). The Russian art world sprang to life with programmatic exhibitions, passionate manifestoes and theoretical declarations, accompanied by the rise of numerous different avant-garde movements. Some were based on outside influence, such as Cubo-Futurism and Rayonism, while others were authentic creations of the new, revolutionary Russia, such as Suprematism and Constructivism.

Visitors to the Museum will have the opportunity to learn about all these movements through a group of 35 works by artists of the stature of Chagall, Larionov, Goncharova, Stepanova, Popova, Kliun, Lissitzky and Kandinsky.

Location: Rooms 42 and 43, ground floor

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15 February to 22 May 2011
Jean-Leon Gerome [1824-1904]

Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) was one of the most famous French painters of his day. In the course of his long career, he was the subject of controversy and bitter criticism, in particular for defending the conventions of the waning genre of Academic painting, under attack by Realists and Impressionists. However, Gérôme was not so much heir to this tradition as a creator of totally new pictorial worlds, often based on a strange iconography that favoured erudite subjects.

Painting history, painting stories, painting everything — this was Gérôme’s great passion. He intrigued the public with his constant interplay of values and genres, blended in an aesthetic of collage and rearrangement. His skill in creating images, in presenting an illusion of reality through artifice and subterfuge went hand in hand with paintings that were perfectly finished yet not perfect.

As a very unorthodox academic painter, Gérôme knew how to represent history as a dramatic spectacle and, by creating particularly convincing images, could make the spectator an eyewitness to events ranging from classical antiquity to his own times. Gérôme’s paintings became widely known thanks to the engravings and photographic reproductions that started being issued in 1859 on commission from dealer and publisher Adolphe Goupil, who would later become Gérôme’s father-in-law. Gérôme carefully chose the subjects with the intention of creating images that could readily become visual icons in popular culture.

This exhibition, the first monograph on this artist in Spain, sheds light on the most noteworthy features of his painting and sculpture from his early career in the 1840s up to his last works.

Image: Mikhail Larionov, The Baker, 1909. Oil on canvas 107 x 102 cm. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Palacio de Villahermosa, Paseo del Prado 8 Madrid, 28014 Spain
Opening times
Tuesdays to Sundays, 10am to 7pm. Closed on Mondays. Closed 1 May.
From 12 March, temporary exhibitions at the Museum will be open on Saturdays until 11pm. Visitors are asked to leave the galleries 5 minutes before closing.
Admission:
Thyssen-Bornemisza Collections
-General 8.00€
-Reduced* 5.50€
Temporary Exhibition Jean-Léon Gérôme [1824-1904]
-General 7.00€
Thyssen-Bornemisza Collections + Jean-Léon Gérôme [1824-1904]
-General 12.00€
-Reduced* 7.00€
-Reduced* 4.50€
Free Children under 12 accompanied by an adult (except groups).

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