We Will Build a New World. Exhibition in the Museum Center Vapriykki, Tampere, Finland

From 26 May 2011 a new exhibition We Will Build a New World (early Soviet porcelain from the collection of the State Hermitage) is open in the Museum Center Vapriykki, Tampere, Finland.

The exhibition features 256 porcelain works and 40 graphical sheets made in the post-revolution period at the State Porcelain Factory (former Imperial). These studies, made in a difficult period for Russia’s development, reflect the various directions of Russian avant-garde and art traditions of the early 20th century.

Porcelain, born by the October Revolution, not only witnessed the era, but also actively promoted ideas for building a new society agents of building a new society. Many talented artists of various styles S. Chekhonin, N. Altman, V. Kandinsky, K. Petrov-Vodkin, V. Belkin, P. Kuznetsov, I. Puni and many others were engaged in porcelain work. Works of new art created by them served as artistic representation of the Soviet system.

The exhibition widely represents suprematist porcelain which inspired new plastics and decor systems. Symbols of new porcelain became models of a kettle and cups made by K. Malevich. Principles of suprematist compositions of N. Suetin and I. Chashnik were further developed in porcelain and in many ways defined its appearance in the coming decades.

The exhibition includes a showing of the film demonstrating porcelain of the early Soviet period with documentary footage.

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The earliest items of the agitation porcelain

Photographs of Petrograd-Leningrad of 1920-30s at the exposition

Suprematism

Porcelain by Kazimir Malevich, Nikolai Suetin and Ilya Chashnik