We present the project of the exposition of the works of the legendary representative of St. Petersburg neo-academism Bella Matveeva called "Wave Genetics", prepared by our gallery for the international contemporary art fair COSMOSCOW 2022.
Exhibitions
Venue: Theater Museum, Ostrovsky Square, 6
Time: September 14 - October 7
Year: 2017
ON SEPTEMBER 14, THE EXHIBITION “ERTE AND CONTEMPORARIES. OPENING” WILL BE OPENED IN THEATER MUSEUM LIFE IN AR DECO STYLE ”ON THE OCCASION OF THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY ART ART HOLDING TATIANA NIKITINA.
The tumultuous or roaring twenties of the Roaring Twenties are the 1920s era in the US and Europe. The name itself reflects an incredible explosion in the art, cultural and social life of this period. Fashion and style of clothes are radically changing, traditional values of the Victorian era are being lost, jazz is flourishing: jazz singers and musicians Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, the virtuoso blues performer Besy Smith, are entering the scene. Foxtrot, waltz and American tango are becoming popular, as well as Charleston and blues, with African American rhythms. Life is a frivolous dance. For this reason, Francis Fitzgerald called this time "the age of jazz."
The new Art Deco style enters the scene of life in full growth. The style of architecture and design, characteristic of the “roaring twenties”, originated in Belgium and, having conquered Europe, reached the United States by the mid-1920s. In New York, one of the tallest buildings, the Chrysler Building, was built in this style. The style demanded its idols, and they did not keep themselves waiting!
He is called the reference embodiment of the Art Deco style, an unsurpassed master of Hollywood chic ... Roman Petrovich Tyrtov - known to the world under the pseudonym Erte.
A combination of grace and luxury, graphic aesthetics and festive splendor, a fashion artist, graphic artist, theatrical costume designer and sculptor, he remained in the history of art as an exemplary representative of the Art Deco style, and his name as a kind of “brand” of bourgeois aesthetics of the 1920s years.
Creative energy and versatility of the master have fully manifested themselves in the field of theatrical costume, decoration and film design. In the 1960s, Erte turned to a new kind of art - sculpture. The artist admitted: “I have a feeling of excitement every time I see and touch the bronze from my collection of sculptures, because it is through her that I can see how my drawings, my ideas, my thoughts, my dreams come to life, which has never happened before” .
Possessing an incredible commercial and artistic flair, Erte in the works of graphics, sculpture and design balanced on the verge of sophistication and luxury, restraint and permissiveness, creating attractive images that do not leave indifferent even the most sophisticated viewers. Today, Erte's works are the subject of passion for many collectors, and their placement in the interior transforms even the most restrained atmosphere.
He, a Russian artist born in St. Petersburg, is known to the whole world. Roman Tyrtov’s works are kept in the most important museums of the world; he has been surrounded by world-famous names all his life: Anna Pavlova, Paul Poiret, Mata Harri, George Balanchini, Roland Petit, Sergey Dyagelev. He really became an aesthetic symbol of the era, who managed to carry this era through his whole life. But sadly, in the Russian collections of his works there are almost no. In 2016, the Hermitage organized the exhibition Erte. The genius of Art Deco: return to St. Petersburg. " We continue this tradition of acquaintance of Petersburgers with the works of Roman Tyrtov.
And again, like fifty years ago, he is surrounded by contemporaries: both his own, whose works are included in the golden fund of the Museum of Theater and Musical Art, and our artists, and sculptors working today, glorifying the eternal and always new, magnificent Art Deco style .
Exhibition catalog: http://artholdingtn.ru/f/erte.pdf
