Perm Art Gallery Announces First Exhibition at New Building
The exhibition will feature works by Petr Subbotin-Permyak and items of folk art.
The Perm Art Gallery has announced the first exhibition that will be available to view immediately after the official opening of the new building at the Shpagin Factory. Here«s what will be on display.
A wooden sculpture by Petr Subbotin-Permyak is seen against the backdrop of his canvases.
Preparations are ongoing at the Perm Art Gallery for the official opening in its new building at the Shpagin Factory. The first tours were held there starting 20 December of last year, but without exhibitions—residents of Perm were able to see how the gallery«s new home is organized. Today, the museum announced that one of the first exhibitions in the new space will be a joint project of the Perm Gallery and the Komi-Permyak Local History Museum titled »Permyak and Parma« (0+). The exhibition, timed to the 100th anniversary of the Komi-Permyak Okrug (district), will feature works by artist, educator, and folk art collector Petr Subbotin-Permyak.
The paintings were created in the Cubo-Futurist style.
«While still a student, he added the toponymic pseudonym Permyak to his surname, emphasizing his connection to his native land. His life was short (1886–1923), but his legacy is significant: painting, graphic art, print works, and students,» the gallery said.
The central image of the exhibition is Parma, or, as the Komi-Permyak people said, Pera Maa—«the land beyond»: a northern region of forests and fogs, which became the main theme of Subbotin-Permyak«s work. The exhibition presents the master as an artist who »returned to his native region to realize the dream of rebuilding the world through art.«
The «Permyak and Parma» exhibition will feature paintings, graphic works, and theatrical sketches by Petr Subbotin-Permyak, as well as designs for decorating Moscow for the first anniversary of the Red Army and innovative works from the 1920s in the style of Cubo-Futurism.
Cubo-Futurism is a movement characteristic of the Russian artistic avant-garde, combining French Cubism and Italian Futurism. Its characteristic features are the «canon of the displaced structure» (deformation, decomposition, and displacement of parts of the depicted object—Editor«s note) of the Cubists and the spatio-temporal dynamism of the Futurists.
In addition, the exhibition will present ethnographic collections of clothing, household items, and decorative-applied art from the late 19th–early 20th century, as well as drawings by students of the Kudymkar Art and Craft Workshops from 1919–1922.
The «Permyak and Parma» exhibition will open simultaneously with the official opening of the Perm Art Gallery at the building at 1 Sovetskaya Street, Building 5. The date has not yet been announced.
We previously reported that the gallery showed a rare crucifix with 34 angels—it will be displayed in the new building.
