24 artifacts from the Museum of Fine Arts of Turkmenistan, including silver and bronze pins in the form of a bactrian camel and heart, anthropomorphic figurines, stone vases and vessels, as well as amulets and seals, exhibited at a mobile exhibition in Germany. The residents of Hamburg will begin their acquaintance with historical and cultural rarities on November 1, in the Archeological Museum of which the opening of the exhibition “Margiana - the Kingdom of the Bronze Age in Turkmenistan” will take place. Unique objects were discovered during the archaeological excavations of Margush, and are dated by specialists of the 2nd millennium BC. Overall about 220 rarities from three museums of our country - the State Museum of History and Local Lore of the Mary region and the Fine Arts are represented in the combined mobile exposition.
“International cultural events have recently become more and more popular,” said Saparmammed Meredov, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Honored Art Worker of Turkmenistan. One of them is the thematic exhibition “Italy. Archeology. China". This is very prestigious both for the country and for our museum. In turn, our visitors have the opportunity to get acquainted with thematic mobile expositions representing the visual and decorative and applied arts of other countries. Recall the past successfully exhibition of photo reproductions of paintings by Italian artist Michelangelo Caravaggio.
“I remember the exhibition of Chinese embroidery, which attracted a great deal of attention of Ashgabat citizens and guests of the capital. Impressed visitors brought their acquaintances the next day to see how an amazing drawing was made from the hundreds of shades of silk threads by the hands of a skilled embroideress! The acquaintances brought their acquaintances to the museum...
- Chinese tea party! The ancient ritual that took shape over many centuries was organized by the exhibition organizers with a folklore program.
“All these and other unforgettable moments were presented to Ashgabat citizens and guests of the capital by the Museum of Fine Arts of Turkmenistan. Share with us its outreach activities, please.
- The building of our museum was built 13 years ago, taking into account world achievements in the field of expositional activity and the preservation of unique samples of painting and decorative and applied art. During this time, the museum fund has doubled, and this is solely due to donation, and now it is about 16.5 thousand copies.
In addition, not every museum have such valuable exhibits as the four paintings by Ivan Aivazovsky, four by Martiros Saryan, canvases “Lilac” by Peter Konchalovsky, “Letter from the front” by Alexander Lahtionov, “The Sleeping Child” by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, “The cab driver” by Konstantin Korovin and many others.
Particularly valuable, or rather, priceless exhibits are presented in almost all types of visual art - in porcelain, furniture, sculpture. Among them items from 18th century sets made at a porcelain factory in St. Petersburg, the service “Own”, the Palace service of the Order of Alexander Nevsky, the Service of the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called.
Furniture, as well as decorative accessories relating to the Western European and Russian culture of the 18th and 19th centuries, will be an exposition in honor of Alexander Pushkin, the 220th anniversary of the birth of which the world community will celebrate in 2019. The organizers will try to recreate the atmosphere of Pushkin's time in memory of the Great Russian poet. The eclectic style interior exhibition traditionally unfolds on the occasion of the Day of Diplomatic Workers of Turkmenistan.
- Being among the objects of past eras, exhibition visitors unwittingly ask themselves: how could these samples of applied art get to the Museum of Fine Arts? Discover the secret...
- In the 20s of the last century from the Russian museums - the Hermitage, the Russian Museum, the Pushkin Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, a large number of valuable exhibits were donated to the Central Asian museums to familiarize the local population with the culture of other nations. Thus, in our museum there were a crystal glass from Napoleon's service with the monogram “N” on a leather case, Suetin’s plates in the style of Suprematism, Kazimir Malevich’s favorite style, and many other rarities.
There are 11 halls in the Museum of Fine Arts, in which, along with a rich collection of paintings by Turkmen artists, from graduates of the Acoustic Art School of the East to our contemporaries, canvases of Dutch, Italian, French, German and Russian painters of 18-19 and early 20th centuries are displayed, collections objects of folk art and painting in China, Japan, India, Turkey, Iran. Asian collection, including woodcuts, magnificent woodcarving, for example, “The Old Man and the Grandson” of the early 19th century, bone carving, including Japanese netsuke, Chinese embroidery samples - part of the collection donated to the Moscow Museum of Arts in the 50s of the last century East.
One of the halls is an expositional one. Here we hold thematic and personal exhibitions of works by Turkmen artists. Such exhibitions provide an opportunity not only to get acquainted with the paintings, but also to communicate with their authors.
At the end of last year, an exhibition of paintings by Mary artist Annadurdy Muradaliyev - the author of the series “My fellow villagers” - took place, which made an indelible impression on me. Numerous admirers of Annadurda’s talent had the opportunity to get acquainted with the maestro of the brush and understand the origins of his original author’s style...
“I dream that at the weekend the museum would turn into a place of family rest, and here, making an exciting journey into the history of art, spend time, discuss, share impressions and emotions from several generations of the same family.
In aesthetic education lies not only the educational message, the cultural environment is also important for the formation of harmonious relationships in the family, initiation of the younger generation to mental values, expanding horizons and the development of creative thinking. Mobile exhibitions organized by us for schoolchildren and students, military personnel and representatives of labor collectives are also aimed at popularizing fine art and expanding the audience of our visitors.
“International cultural events have recently become more and more popular,” said Saparmammed Meredov, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Honored Art Worker of Turkmenistan. One of them is the thematic exhibition “Italy. Archeology. China". This is very prestigious both for the country and for our museum. In turn, our visitors have the opportunity to get acquainted with thematic mobile expositions representing the visual and decorative and applied arts of other countries. Recall the past successfully exhibition of photo reproductions of paintings by Italian artist Michelangelo Caravaggio.
“I remember the exhibition of Chinese embroidery, which attracted a great deal of attention of Ashgabat citizens and guests of the capital. Impressed visitors brought their acquaintances the next day to see how an amazing drawing was made from the hundreds of shades of silk threads by the hands of a skilled embroideress! The acquaintances brought their acquaintances to the museum...
- Chinese tea party! The ancient ritual that took shape over many centuries was organized by the exhibition organizers with a folklore program.
“All these and other unforgettable moments were presented to Ashgabat citizens and guests of the capital by the Museum of Fine Arts of Turkmenistan. Share with us its outreach activities, please.
- The building of our museum was built 13 years ago, taking into account world achievements in the field of expositional activity and the preservation of unique samples of painting and decorative and applied art. During this time, the museum fund has doubled, and this is solely due to donation, and now it is about 16.5 thousand copies.
In addition, not every museum have such valuable exhibits as the four paintings by Ivan Aivazovsky, four by Martiros Saryan, canvases “Lilac” by Peter Konchalovsky, “Letter from the front” by Alexander Lahtionov, “The Sleeping Child” by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, “The cab driver” by Konstantin Korovin and many others.
Particularly valuable, or rather, priceless exhibits are presented in almost all types of visual art - in porcelain, furniture, sculpture. Among them items from 18th century sets made at a porcelain factory in St. Petersburg, the service “Own”, the Palace service of the Order of Alexander Nevsky, the Service of the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called.
Furniture, as well as decorative accessories relating to the Western European and Russian culture of the 18th and 19th centuries, will be an exposition in honor of Alexander Pushkin, the 220th anniversary of the birth of which the world community will celebrate in 2019. The organizers will try to recreate the atmosphere of Pushkin's time in memory of the Great Russian poet. The eclectic style interior exhibition traditionally unfolds on the occasion of the Day of Diplomatic Workers of Turkmenistan.
- Being among the objects of past eras, exhibition visitors unwittingly ask themselves: how could these samples of applied art get to the Museum of Fine Arts? Discover the secret...
- In the 20s of the last century from the Russian museums - the Hermitage, the Russian Museum, the Pushkin Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, a large number of valuable exhibits were donated to the Central Asian museums to familiarize the local population with the culture of other nations. Thus, in our museum there were a crystal glass from Napoleon's service with the monogram “N” on a leather case, Suetin’s plates in the style of Suprematism, Kazimir Malevich’s favorite style, and many other rarities.
There are 11 halls in the Museum of Fine Arts, in which, along with a rich collection of paintings by Turkmen artists, from graduates of the Acoustic Art School of the East to our contemporaries, canvases of Dutch, Italian, French, German and Russian painters of 18-19 and early 20th centuries are displayed, collections objects of folk art and painting in China, Japan, India, Turkey, Iran. Asian collection, including woodcuts, magnificent woodcarving, for example, “The Old Man and the Grandson” of the early 19th century, bone carving, including Japanese netsuke, Chinese embroidery samples - part of the collection donated to the Moscow Museum of Arts in the 50s of the last century East.
One of the halls is an expositional one. Here we hold thematic and personal exhibitions of works by Turkmen artists. Such exhibitions provide an opportunity not only to get acquainted with the paintings, but also to communicate with their authors.
At the end of last year, an exhibition of paintings by Mary artist Annadurdy Muradaliyev - the author of the series “My fellow villagers” - took place, which made an indelible impression on me. Numerous admirers of Annadurda’s talent had the opportunity to get acquainted with the maestro of the brush and understand the origins of his original author’s style...
“I dream that at the weekend the museum would turn into a place of family rest, and here, making an exciting journey into the history of art, spend time, discuss, share impressions and emotions from several generations of the same family.
In aesthetic education lies not only the educational message, the cultural environment is also important for the formation of harmonious relationships in the family, initiation of the younger generation to mental values, expanding horizons and the development of creative thinking. Mobile exhibitions organized by us for schoolchildren and students, military personnel and representatives of labor collectives are also aimed at popularizing fine art and expanding the audience of our visitors.
