International Exhibition of portraits "The terms of Diaghilev. Crossing of destinies "

The main event of the XI International Festival of Arts “Diaghilev. P.S. " will be a large-scale international exhibition of portraits “In Diaghilev's Circle. Crossing of destinies ", which will be exhibited from November 13, 2020 to February 12, 2021. in the Sheremetev Palace.

The exhibition is dedicated to the creative path of Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, an outstanding figure in Russian culture, a passionate propagandist of Russian art in the West, a reformer and discoverer of new forms and new names, and his contribution to the development of world ballet.

An exhibition about Diaghilev's personality of this scale and artistic level will be presented to the Russian audience for the first time. This ambitious project is an unprecedented dialogue between the artistic cultures of Russia and Europe. It is about the people who were involved by the outstanding Russian impresario Diaghilev in the cycle of his stormy activity. About people whom he attracted, repelled, with whom he was friends, with whom he studied, whom he valued, whose talent he discovered, about people who helped him and whom he helped. For the first time, portraits of prominent artists of the 20th century in Russia and Europe will be brought together, united by the figure of Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev.

The content of the exhibition is determined by twelve subjects (or 12 "circles"), going in the chronological order of Diaghilev's life. Behind each is a certain creative period of the impresario's life. The content of these periods is determined primarily by the circle of persons whom Diaghilev attracted and united with his ideas.

The artistic image of the exhibition consists of two parts:

I. Main portrait row. Here are the picturesque, graphic and photographic portraits of Diaghilev's associates.

II. Accompanying series, "interlinear", dedicated to the most important creative events, participants and allies in which were the people shown in this kind of portrait gallery. The interlinear contains posters and programs, quotes from heroes, documentary photographs of art exhibitions and scenes from performances, letters and documents.

Self-portraits and portraits by Valentin Serov, Lev Bakst, Boris Kustodiev, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Petrov-Vodkin, Konstantin Somov, Mikhail Larionov, Edward Munch, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Jacques-Émile de Bileau other outstanding artists of the 20th century - will be presented at the exhibition, many of them will be shown in Russia for the first time. A unique album-catalog in two languages is being prepared for the exhibition.

Among the partners of the exhibition are the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin Museum, the State Hermitage, the State Russian Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts of Dagestan, the Smolensk State Museum-Reserve, the Tula Art Museum, the Pompidou Center (Paris), the Chanel House Archives, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Madrid), the Rouen Art Museum, the Gallery of Modern Art ( Turin), as well as private collections from Russia, France, Belgium, Italy.