An exhibition from the collection of the Museum of 20th–21st Century Art of St Petersburg of was held at the State Archive of Turin, Italy.
MASP has one of the richest collections representing the XX century art of Leningrad–St Petersburg. The exhibition St Petersburg Art from Avant-Garde to Perestroika presents to visitors the best pieces of painting and graphic art – from avant-garde of the 1920s–1930s, then socialist realism of the war and post-war period, the Khrushchev Thaw of the 1960s and 1970s, the Soviet underground, and up to the Perestroika time that came with Mikhail Gorbachev's rise to power.
St Petersburg was the birthplace of the Russian avant-garde. The most remarkable artistic experiments of the early twentieth century were developed in our city. Yet St Petersburg has always been famous for its long-standing classical traditions. The MASP collection presents the art characterising various artistic trends as objectively and fully as possible.
The exhibition included portraits, landscapes, genre scenes, abstract compositions. Visitors to the State Archives in Turin were able to see 100 works of art and 30 documentary photographs that recreate the spirit of the time.