On July 18, 2024, the exhibition "Orient Museum opens funds. Painting of the Caucasus and Central Asia" will begin its work in the pavilion of the Orient Museum at VDNH. It will be a logical addition to the large-scale exposition of decorative, applied and fine arts of the Caucasus and Central Asia, the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Near and Middle East, Central Asia and Africa located in the neighboring halls of the pavilion.

The exhibition "Orient Museum opens funds" is dedicated to fine art – works written in different styles and genres. The exhibition presents more than fifty paintings created in the second half of the 20th century, during its Soviet period, by artists of the Caucasus and Transcaucasia (Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, South Ossetia, Dagestan) and Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan). The fate of the artists developed in different ways: some authors lived and worked in their homeland, others are spiritually connected with it.

For example, the Circassian Hamid Savkuev has long and successfully taught at the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg; the Armenian Jacques Ikhmalyan, born in Turkey, traveled a lot and lived in Moscow; brothers Valery and Alexander Volkov, biographically associated with Uzbekistan, heirs of the famous representative of the "Turkestan avant-garde" Alexander Nikolaevich Volkov; Tair Salakhov – widely known and revered both in Azerbaijan and in Russia; Georgy Totibadze, known to many for his works and gallery in Moscow, does not lose touch with his native Georgia.

"The exposition of the exhibition is a fascinating journey through the streets of Tbilisi, old Baku, Derbent, Armenian villages or villages soaked in the hot Central Asian sun. Each artist has reflected in his own way in his works the originality of a place, a particular region, its characteristic colors, rhythms and images," said curator Maria Filatova.

The exhibition "Orient Museum opens funds" is a story about various schools of fine art.  You can immerse yourself in the passing past until September 15, 2024.

Curator: Maria Filatova