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Aleksandr Rodchenko & Varvara Stepanova -Visions of Constructivism-
Date: Sat.24 April, 2010 – Sun.20 June, 2010
Hours: 10 am – 6 pm (admission ends 5:30 pm) 
Closing Days: 28 April, 12 and 26 May, 9 June, 2010




Fees

-Adults 1100 (880) yen
-College and university students (including junior college and technical school students) 880 (770) yen
-Seniors (65 and above) 550 (440) yen
-Elementary school students and junior and senior high school students 550(440) yen
-Preschool-aged children Free

*Figures in parentheses are group admission fees (for groups of 20 or more).
*Admission is free for any person with a Japanese government-issued handicapped handbook and his or her accompanying aide.
*Admission is free for teacher-led student groups from Tokyo visiting as part of their educational activities. (This program is available for elementary, junior, and senior high school students. Prior application is required.)




[Organized by]
Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, The Asahi Shimbun, The State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
[Supported by]
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Embassy of the Russian Federation, Russian Federal Agency for Cultural Cooperation with Foreign Countries, Tokyo Metropolitan Government
[With the support of]Daishinsha Corporation
[With the cooperation of]JAL
[With the co-sponsorship of] Toda Corporation / Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd

Members of the Russian avant-garde worked towards a revolution in the arts in the years around the Russian Revolution. Young artists sought to bring art into active engagement with society and to make it part of daily life, rejecting the confinement of the fruits of creative activity in the arts to a privileged few. Constructivism was the most prominent of those avant-garde movements, with Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891-1956) and his wife Varvara Stepanova (1894-1958) among its leading artists.
Rodchenko worked towards a revolution in painting and more: he also engaged in spatial constructions, architecture, the design of items for everyday use, and graphic design, including books, magazines, and posters. Rodchenko also photographed family, friends, and urban and other landscapes from bold angles, an approach that opened up new possibilities in photography. Stepanova applied her abilities in fields ranging from costume and fabric to typographical design. What did this talented pair focus on? What were their objectives? This exhibition addresses those questions through 170 works from the collections of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and the Rodchenko and Stepanova Archives.


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