21 November 2017
Supporting Art Studies in Russia
The U-Art Foundation establishes a
grant for Tretyakov Gallery scholars
Text: Olga Muromtseva
Photo: Alexander Kazakov
In early 2017, the U-ART Foundation announced t
at a scholarly conference. The Foundation's initiative will
contribute to the development of art studies in Russia and
the expansion of the research's geography, providing
to the scholars access to objects and materials previously out of
their reach. he launch of an endowment program for the State Tretyakov Gallery
art researchers. The new source of funding will make possible doing research at
out-of-country museums, archives, universities, and other
institutions
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The new endowment program has drawn the attention of many
art scholars
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Often, documents important for research and works of Russian
artists are found in collections abroad. Sometimes whole chapters of one
or another master's biography remain unwritten due to the fact that the
information on a particular period of his or her life (for example, traveling
to other countries) is inaccessible to Russian art historians. The
U-Art Foundation endowment program is intended to help filling these gaps.
The grants fully cover all travel and visit expenses as well
as the research costs. The primary result of the research
is the beneficiary scholar's report to the Foundation and the Tretyakov
Gallery, whereas the ultimate objectives are an exhibition project, publication
of an article or a monograph, and a presentation
at a scholarly conference. The Foundation's initiative will
contribute to the development of art studies in Russia and
the expansion of the research's geography, providing
to the scholars access to objects and materials previously out of
their reach.
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Iveta Manasherova, co-founder of the U-Art Foundation,
and Irina Pronina of the 1st Half of the 20th Century Painting
Department
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Applications for participation in the program will
be accepted once a year, in December, and then reviewed by the Expert
Board over a two-month period. In March of the following year, the new grant
recipients will be announced during the award ceremony at the Mikhail Vrubel
Hall of the Tretyakov Gallery. This year's Expert Board members are: Zelfira
Tregulova, General Director of the Tretyakov Gallery; Tatyana Karpova, Deputy
Director for Research; Faina Balakhovskaya, Advisor to the Director;
Marina Elzesser, Deputy Director for Education; Tatyana Yudkevich, Academic
Administrative Assistant; and Iveta Manasherova, co-founder of the U-ART
Foundation, art scholar and collector.
“One of the components of art collecting is doing research,” Iveta Manasherova
says. “We know from experience how difficult it can be to gain access to
the desired materials. Scholarly effort is not always evident: often only the
result can be seen. What is obvious, however, is that the very process of this
painstaking preliminary work is the most critical and demanding stage: it is
based on this effort that scholarly breakthroughs are made and remarkable
exhibition projects created. We hope that the new Foundation's program will
enable the Tretyakov researchers to make their most ambitious projects come to
fruition, and we will be happy to contribute to the development and
geography expansion of their studies.”
In 2017, seven applications were submitted for the grants.
Curiously, several of the applicants expressed the desire to do
research at the I. V. Savitsky Karakalpak State Museum of Arts (Nukus,
Uzbekistan). Beside Uzbekistan, the academic interest of the Tretyakov staff
focused on the work and life of Russian artists in Europe and
America: Vitaly Komar, Alexander Melamid, and Vasily Vereshchagin in the U.S.,
Aleksandr Deyneka in Italy, and Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova in
France.
The first beneficiaries of the program were Irina Pronina,
Research Associate at the 1st Half of the 20th Century Painting
Department, and Yevgeniya Ilyukhina, Deputy Head of the 18th — Early 20th
Century Graphics Department. The recipients' names were announced during the
award ceremony, which took place on March 3, 2017 at the Mikhail Vrubel Hall of
the Tretyakov Gallery main building on Lavrushinsky Lane.
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Yevgeniya Ilyukhina, Deputy Head of the 18th — Early
20th Century Graphics Department
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Yevgeniya Ilyukhina applied for a grant to cover her
trip to the Pompidou Center to study the work of Mikhail Larionov and
Natalia Goncharova in France. This project will become an important step
in the preparation of a broad retrospective of Mikhail Larionov,
slated to be held at the Tretyakov Gallery in the fall of 2018.
The focus of Irina Pronina's research is the oeuvre of Pavel
Filonov, as well as of Ivan Kudryashov — a less known but no
less significant representative of the Russian avant-garde. The
purpose of her planned trip to the Uzbek city of Nukus is to study
Kudryashov's paintings and drawings. Ivan Kudryashov (18961972) was a prominent
Russian avant-garde artist, a disciple of Kazimir Malevich, head of the city of
Orenburg's UNOVIS (“Asserters of the New Art”), an active member of the OST
association (“The Society of Easel Painters”).
Having been prohibited since the end of the 1920s from
participating in Moscow artists' exhibitions, for the rest of
his life Kudryashov had continued expressing in art his interest in the
creative exploration of the subject of outer space and the search for new
forms of plasticity language in painting. Most of his works (over 350
paintings and drawings) are kept at the Nukus museum, and only few of them
so far have been published. Thus, the grant will likely enable scholars
to add another master's name to the Russian avant-garde pantheon.
Thanks to the joint effort of the U-Art Foundation and the
Tretyakov Gallery, several large-scale art events have already become reality,
such as Oskar Rabin's retrospective The Three Lives (2008), the exhibition Lado
Gudiashvili. The Paris Years: 1920−1925 (2009), and the annual international
chamber music festival Vivarte. The new endowment program constitutes another
important juncture in the continuing partnership of the Foundation
and the Gallery.
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The grant award ceremony at the Mikhail Vrubel
Hall
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The Tretyakov Gallery
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The I. V. Savitsky Museum of Arts (Uzbekistan)
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The Pompidou Center (Paris, France)
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