New international exhibition "Light Between Worlds"

The New Jerusalem Museum (Moscow Region) has opened a new international exhibition, Light Between Worlds, dedicated to the little-studied layer of Soviet, Uzbek and Russian modernism of the 1920s and 1930s.

In the 1930s, artist Lyudmila Bakulina travelled extensively throughout the Lesser Caucasus, making sketches and drawings. The work ‘Batumi’ is executed in a naive, primitive style, vividly and playfully depicting the hustle and bustle of a seaside town, where ships wait for their loaders at the docks and steam train smoke curls above the subtropical landscape. Despite her undoubted talent, Lyudmila Bakulina quickly abandoned painting. A significant part of her works are included in the collection of the I. V. Savitsky State Museum of Art.

🖼 L. Bakulina, ‘Batumi’, 1930s