Exhibition 'Archetypes of the Avant-Garde'

About exhibition

The State Tretyakov Gallery presents the exhibition 'Archetypes of the Avant-Garde', offering a new perspective on the Russian avant-garde by combining art with the popular psychological theory of the 12 archetypes: Child, Everyman, Warrior, Caregiver, Seeker, Rebel, Aesthete, Creator, Ruler, Magician, Sage, Jester. Archetypes determine a person's values, behavioral patterns, and perception of the world. The exhibition will feature works by Kazimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky, Alexander Rodchenko, Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, Ilya Mashkov, Aristarkh Lentulov, Olga Rozanova, Georgy Yakulov and other outstanding masters of the avant-garde. A view through the prism of archetypes provides the opportunity to penetrate the artist's creative consciousness at a new level. It helps to understand which psychological patterns drove the artist, why they created the works they did, what their motivations were, and thus to reach a deeper understanding of the extraordinary art of the early 20th century. The exhibition will take place at Kadashevskaya Embankment, 12, 3rd floor.