Arat Manege 1996

– Manege Moskva

Works by more than 400 artists were represented by 63 galleries and art unions from Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Germany, Spain and Finland at the International Art Fair "ART MANEGE-96" in Moscow`s Central Exhibition Hall Manege from December 6 to 13, 1996.
Forty-eight of the galleries were based in Moscow and seven others were from St. Petersburg, Tver, Togliatti and Ufa and the republics of Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. Western Europe was represented by six art galleries. New projects and entire collections were put on view by the Moscow Gallery of Architecture, the Favorski family, collector Leonid Talochkin (a representative of the Russian underground of the 1950s and 1960s), photographer Igor Palmin with a cycle of 30 works devoted to the famous house designed by architect Konstantin Melnikov, a group of eight renowned Moscow artists (Vladimir Veisberg, Nikolai Andronov, Natalia Egorshina, brothers Pavel and Mikhail Nikonov, Mikhail Ivanov, Kirill Mordovin), and collectioner Victor Gubin.

Works of well-known Moscow artists Andrei Krasulin, Yurii Zlotnikov, Irina Starzenezkaya, Anatolii Komelin, Andrei Volkov, Ivan lubennikov, Alexander Sitnikov, Olga Bulgakova and other less known but no less interesting artists were on display, too.

The artistic heritage of Daghestani painter Eduard Puterbrot, as well as that of Valery Yashigin, an artist from Baku, Azerbaijan, who lived the last years of his life in St. Petersburg, was represented by their selected works. The fair also put on view art periodicals, such as "Khudozhestveni journal", "SATs", "Art Prestige", "Krasota", "Zolotoi vek", "Khudozhestveni soviet", and products of the Slovo Publishers.

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(Presseinformation: artinfo.ru)