This exhibition presents a comprehensive survey of the remarkable avant-garde ceramics produced in St Perersburg's Lomonosov porcelain factory during the years following the Russian Revolution of 1917 and into the 1930s.
Inspired by the promise of a new society, leading artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Rudolf Vilde and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin suppied the factory with bold and innovative designs, often incorporating stirring images and slogans in support of the new regime. In 1923 the factory started producing an extraordinary range of porcelain with purely abstract designs by the Suprematist painter Kazimir Malevich and his students Nicolay Suyetin and Ilya Chashnik.
The exhibition also features an important group of design drawings by the leading Russian artists of the early 20th century, many of which have not been exhibited before.
18th November 2004 - 31 July 2005
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