Lecture on Elena Guro at Petropavlovsk Fortress
On 5 February, the Petropavlovsk Fortress lecture hall will host the first lecture of the «Discovering Avant-Garde Names» series, dedicated to artist and writer Elena Guro.
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Elena Guro«s painting »Morning of the Giant« from 1910.
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The Petropavlovsk Fortress lecture hall is launching a series called «Discovering Avant-Garde Names» to introduce the public to lesser-known artists of this movement. The first meeting on 5 February will be dedicated to Elena Guro.
Elena Guro, a painter and poet of the Russian avant-garde.
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Guro, called a «forgotten heroine of the Silver Age», lived only 35 years, which may have contributed to her relative obscurity. Meanwhile, her husband Mikhail Matyushin, a leader of Futurism, is more widely recognized.
The artist studied under masters such as Bakst and Dobuzhinsky, yet reference works primarily mention her as a poet and prose writer. Her works were praised by Alexander Blok and Vyacheslav Ivanov, but her debut collection never sold out.
«Today, as interest in Russian art returns, there is a need to study and present the work of a broader range of artists who represented such a vibrant phenomenon as the Russian avant-garde,» notes lecturer Artyom Bilchuk, a research fellow at the Museum of History of St. Petersburg.
The lecture on Elena Guro will take place on 5 February in the Ioannovsky Ravelin of the Petropavlovsk Fortress. It begins at 18:30, admission for listeners over 16.
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