Today, the State Russian Museum opens an exhibition of a famous Soviet artist AA Labasa (1900-1983). The exhibition includes 110 paintings and drawings

SRM, April 12 - July 15, 2012
Benois Wing: St. Petersburg, nab Griboedov, 2

today at the State Russian Museum opens an exhibition of a famous Soviet artist A . A. Labasa (1900-1983) - one of the leading masters of the Society of Easel (OST), which has become a bright and distinctive phenomenon in the art of the 1920s - early 1930s. The exhibition includes 110 paintings and drawings from the Russian Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, Pushkin Museum S.Pushkina A., State Historical and artistic and literary museum "Abramtsevo" State Theatre Museum. Bakhrushin, Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Ivanovo Regional Art Museum, Perm State Art Gallery and private collections.

ALEXANDER Labasa In the Far East. The Red Army. 1928 Oil on canvas. 98 x 78 Source: rusmuseum.ru

ALEXANDER Labasa Zeppelin. 1931 Watercolor, whitewash. 32.5 x 27 Source: rusmuseum.ru

main section of the exhibition included the works of Labasa 1920-30-ies, which found the original breaking of the distinctive features of the underlying aesthetic OST : a keen interest in plastic discoveries of Russian and foreign vanguard of the early twentieth century and the desire to bring in an expressive art form of rhythm and dynamics of a busy modern world. The exhibition also includes an electronic catalog, giving the opportunity to see works created Labasa in the postwar decades.

ALEXANDER Labasa airship and an orphanage. 1930 Oil on canvas. 160 x 80 Source: rusmuseum.ru

ALEXANDER Labasa plane above the deck. In 1936. From the series "Crimea» paper, tempera and whitewash. 47 x 31 Source: rusmuseum.ru

ALEXANDER Labasa in the Caucasus. The first tractors. 1929 Watercolor on paper. 31.7 x 45,5 Source: rusmuseum.ru

One of the main characters of the works is a technology - cars, airplanes, trams and the Moscow metro escalators. Forms of bias and unusual camera angles allow the artist to recreate a dizzying sense of space, seen from the window of a train or rushing swiftly from the cockpit. However, the images on the latest technical innovations, or the coming conquest of space, the author finds his poetics consonant with his lyrical perception of the world. This feature works Labasa especially clearly revealed in his portraits, landscapes and still lifes, marked emotional spirituality and subtle sense of color.

exhibition is organized jointly with the Foundation to promote the conservation of the creative legacy of Alexander Labasa .

Source : rusmuseum.ru