«Eldorado. The Treasures of Native Americans»
From February to April 2020 with the support of Moscow Department of Culture the exhibition «Eldorado. The Treasures of Native Americans» opened its doors at Vasili’s III of Russia Palace in Moscow.
The exhibition included more than 150 artifacts of ancient art and artworks of contemporary native American artists.
Besides the main exposition our visitors could participate in special events and lectures on Indigenous American art and history organized by the foundation.
On February 2020 the Foundation «Art of the Nations» organized the art and dance performance «Russian Muse of Salvador Dali». The performance was held in Gradsky Hall theatre in Moscow.
Alexander Shadrin, collector and owner of the biggest collection of Salvador Dali’s works in Russia, gave lecture on Dali’s and Gala’s relationships before the show. Alexander Shadrin is interested by the artist’s biography and art for more than 20 years, he personally met many people from artist’s closest entourage.
The spectacular performance is based on the impassioned and unrepeatable history of love of Salvador Dali to his unique muse Gala. This artistic interpretation includes the most important periods of Dali’s life, tells the history of his most famous works and shows Salvador Dali’s role in the development of advertising in the XX century.
The unusual format of the performance combining the music, lights, costumes, choreography and video projections corresponds to the surrealistic spirit of Salvador Dali.
The role of Gala was performed by Anna Nakhapetova, the famous ballet dancer of the Bolshoi Theatre. She creates a dramatic image of the wonderful woman, the muse and literally the queen of the surrealistic Dali’s world.
Direction and choreography by Anna Verde
On autumn 2019 Foundation «Art of the Nations» supported the organization of the art and dance performance «Russian Muse of Salvador Dali».
Artistic interpretation of Dali’s strong feelings to Gala had been performed by famous artists of The Bolshoi Theatre and The Roman Viktyuk Theatre.
The show took place at the Gradski Hall Theatre and at the «Dali&Picasso» exhibition venue. The story of Salvador Dali and Gala’s love grew up in dance surrounded by authentic Dali’s works.
With the support of Moscow Department of Culture, the collection of Salvador Dali’s and Pablo Picasso’s works was exhibited from October 2019 to January 2020 at Vasili’s III of Russia Palace, which is actually one of the oldest building in Moscow!
230 authentic masterpieces with famous plots as well as late-period works were presented.
The exhibition was accompanied by special program of lectures and events dedicated to the great artists.
A very unusual event took place in one of the village of Zaoksky district which is situated near to city of Tula. The foundation «Art of the Nations» opened a world of Dali and Picasso to the local farmers right in the heart of Russian countryside! 15 masterpieces were exposed at the village vernissage and the director of the foundation Yaroslav gave a lecture dedicated to the presented artworks. The audience consisted of people who consciously chose the rural life near to the Oka river where in the past also lived famous Russian artist Vasily Polenov. All of them moved there from big cities such Moscow or Tula.
This event presents that the foundation is open to a different proposals and partnerships which are dedicated to introduce the public into the world of art.
The event was held at the old mill which found its second life as a meeting place for interesting people.
On June 2019 the President of the foundation «Art of the Nations» was invited as an expert to the Tavrida Art Festival, which became a unique experimental art laboratory for both, participants and organizers.
Alexander Shadrin had to evaluate more than 50 different art projects in architecture, design and exhibition organization. A group of three experts, including Alexander Shadrin, executed a list of recommendations on obtaining of state grants by festival’s participants. According to the results of the competition young people obtained prize grants from 150 000 to 3,5 millions of rubbles for their projects.
Wide experience of exhibition organization and art projects promotion helped Alexander to consult and to prepare young people to present their projects and to formalized all the documents.
Our foundation will continue to help young and talented people to organize exhibitions, to consult and to help them to prepare required documents correctly.
In January 2019, Foundation «Art of the Nations» had lanced an international street art competition for the Latin American artists. The competition had been a part of a big project dedicated to the Native American arts and cultures. During 3 weeks we received more than 70 sketches from 10 Latin American countries.
Farid Rueda, a Mexican artist with Aztec roots, has won this competition. He arrived in Russia to create his artwork at the exhibition space in Moscow.
His work represents an Eagle Warrior who died on the battlefield. Nevertheless, a warrior’s way was not finished and he transformed into a jaguar, a symbol which refers to the another elite Aztec military unit. A plot of the artwork is considered as a classic plot of Aztec art and art of Teotihuacan. This beautiful artwork in modern style was created in «Red October» gallery surrounded by the artefacts made by Farid’s ancestors some thousands years ago.
The treasures of ancient civilizations from the Foundation’s collection were presented at the «Red October» gallery in Moscow. The exhibition assembled cultural and historical heritage of 10 countries of North and South America: from Canada to Chili. More than 150 authentic artefacts covering more than 3000 years of the American history were exhibited at the exhibition space.
Among the other objects of art, the Huichol yarn paintings made by notable huichol shaman-artist and chief José Benítez Sánchez, a red cedar totem pole from Northwest Coast carved by chief Calvin Hunt, an Aztec knife used for human sacrifices and the first Lamabyeque ruler’s diadem were shown at the exhibition.
The exhibition took place from February to August 2019 at «Red October» Gallery in Moscow.
The collection includes more than 250 authentic works: Dali’s and Picasso’s graphics, Pablo Picasso’s ceramics from the Madura pottery and famous dalinian bronze sculptures and ceramics.
An exclusive video about collection were shown at the exhibition space.
Salvador Dali’s and Pablo Picasso’s artworks were presented from December 2018 to February 2019 in Minsk.
The collection was exhibited at the «Libra» gallery.
