The exhibition project ‘Uzbekistan: Avant-garde in the Desert’ continues

The exhibition project ‘Uzbekistan: Avant-garde in the Desert’ continues at the I.V. Savitsky State Museum of Art in Nukus.

Mikhail Kurzin first visited Uzbekistan as a tourist in the early 1920s. In 1924, he moved to Tashkent with his wife, artist Elena Korovay, where he and Alexander Volkov founded the famous ‘Masters of the New East’ circle. Kurzin's famous work ‘Visiting’ depicts an archaic urban Eastern scene from the beginning of the century — a broad-shouldered cab driver carries veiled women and a little girl along a scorching street to visit relatives. The new world has not yet defeated the old — the paranja is still an important attribute in the appearance of Central Asian women.

The exhibition will run until December 2025.