NEWS

On 26th of August in the National Gallery of Art “Khazine” there will be opened the exhibition “Artists of Tatarstan: icon of Syuyumbicke – the last tsaritsa of Kazan Khanate on the eve of 500th anniversary of her birthday”.

Exhibition from collection of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan and paintings of Tatarstan artists is dedicated to the Day of the Republic of Tatarstan.

As noted at the museum, the exhibition represents the legendary icon of Syuyumbicke in unified display area. The icon of Syuyumbicke is a kind of theme which closely related to ideology both under the Tsarist Russia and Soviet times.

Addressing to the icon of Syuyumbicke nowadays is passing through the prism of conditional postmodern language of the so-called “Muslim avant-garde”, abstractionism, conceptualism, primitive methods and aesthetics of shamail art.

Exhibition will be open till 26th of September.