PAINTING MUSEUM: ARTCHRONIC – OLGA POLYANSKAYA

YARAT Contemporary Art Space launches a new educational project called “Art Chronic” – a series of meetings with leading international art critics, timed to the exhibition “Labour, Leisure and Dreams: 1960-1980s through the eyes of Azerbaijani masters”.

Within the framework of the project “Art Chronic” in the Museum of XX-XXI Century Azerbaijani Painting will be held a meeting with the research fellow of the Department of Painting of the Second half of XXth century of the State Tretyakov Gallery – Olga Polyanskaya. The Russian expert will tell about the collection of Azerbaijani painting of the 1960-1980s in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery. Azerbaijani painting exists in many Russian museums, but the State Tretyakov Gallery has a collection of leading masters and gives an idea of the Azerbaijani art’s key period evolution. At the same time, it represents a definite view on the Azerbaijani art of that time. The Azerbaijani audience will be acquainted with the artistic context in which the masters worked not only in Azerbaijan, but also in other republics of the ex USSR.

Olga Polyanskaya graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University, MA in History of Art. She worked as a research fellow in ROSIZO State Museum and Exhibition Center: lecturer in Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and Moscow Choreography College. Since 1986, Olga Polyanskaya works as a research fellow of Department of Painting of the Second half of XX Century in the State Tretyakov Gallery. Her main field of interests and publications are in art of the second half of XX Century Post-Soviet studies, problems of formation of national schools of fine art in XX century, contemporary painting in Middle East and Central Asia.

Curator of numerous exhibitions such as Tahir Salahov “Sun in Zenit” (State Tretyakov Gallery), “Constellation of Apsheron” Azerbaijani artists of 1960-1980s (State Tretyakov Gallery), co-curator of exhibition named “Windows to Russia” consisting of seven generations masterpieces (Nizhniy Novgorod, Ekaterinburg, Krasnoyarsk, Vladivostok, Moscow) etc. 

Date: September 21, 2018

Time: 19:00

Venue: Painting Museum (Bayil District) 

Admission is free