Grand Family Vernissage “Our Future”

Time: 08.07.2017, 12.00-21.00

Venue: Peshi restaurant, Okhotny Ryad, 2, Fashion Season shopping gallery, 2nd floor

Table reservations by phone: +7 495 133 59 09

Free admission.

All works are available for purchase.

On the Day of Family, Love and Fidelity, in the very heart of the capital on the premises of Peshi restaurant, Kvartira S gallery held another seasonal vernissage united by the theme “Our Future.”

The exhibition featured more than 50 works by 30 of the gallery’s most promising artists, some of whom held open lessons and plein-air sessions during the vernissage.

All guests were welcomed with a cocktail reception, conversation with interesting people and a creative atmosphere.

Alongside viewing the paintings, the gallery traditionally organized a rich entertainment and educational program throughout the day. The opening number of the celebration was etudes by gallery artist Ekaterina Lebedeva inspired by a performance by Vera Akulinina, a student of the Russian National Ballet School of Ilze Liepa, followed by the interactive part of the program: a family molecular cuisine master class by Arseny Matveenko; a lecture by an art historian from the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts; and a tasting by Russia’s first wine academician Tatyana Selivanova.

On July 8 at 14.00 at the Grand Vernissage “Our Future,” there was a performance by Vera Akulinina, a student of the Russian National Ballet School of Ilze Liepa.

The artistic director of the school is Ilze Liepa. Ilze Liepa personally selects the teachers who educate children in the finest traditions of the Russian ballet school, also employing the Pilates method.

The title of Vera Akulinina’s piece is “Little Cloud,” music: Waltz No. 7, Op. 64 in C-sharp minor by Frédéric Chopin.

At 4:00 p.m., lecturer Alina Aksyonova, art historian and lecturer at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, archaeologist, and teacher of art history, spoke about the history of the collections of Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov — Moscow’s most famous collectors of painting.

Thanks to their curiosity, taste, and resolve, by the early twentieth century Moscow held outstanding works by Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Picasso, and other celebrated revolutionaries of art.

Each collector had his own approach to acquiring works, his own method of selection, and his own way of shaping a collection. Morozov was extremely selective and bought only masterpieces, while Shchukin would become captivated by a single artist and purchase many of that artist’s works at once.

In the end the collections took on different characters, and when they were brought together after the Revolution in the Museum of New Western Art, they became an object of worldwide interest. The lecture will turn to the most fascinating facts from the history of these collections.