CHINESE AND RUSSIAN ART EXHIBITIONS TO BE STAGED IN ZAGREB

ZAGREB, Aug 28 (Hina) - Large Russian and Chinese art exhibitions will be staged in Zagreb in September and October. An exhibition of contemporary Chinese art will be officially opened at the Chinese Pavilion at the Zagreb Fair on September 30, while an exhibition of Russian avantgarde from 1910 to 1930 will be opened at the Klovicevi Dvori gallery on October 3. #L# The Russian avantgarde, from architects to painters and graphic artists and designers, will be presented at the exhibition "Prophets of Space", which will offer a documentary insight into an era when ideas emerged of how various fields of life should look like. The exhibition, organised by Moscow's Museum of History, will present works by Mikhail Larionov, Natalia Gonchareva, Kasimir Malevich, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Vassily Kandisky, Pero Konchalovsky, Robert Faljak, and Olga Rozanova. The value of the exhibition is estimated at about US$22 million and Zagreb's City Council will invest around US150,000 in it. In a reciprocal visit Zagreb will organise a retrospective by Croatia's painter Edo Murtic at a Moscow gallery. The exhibition of works of about forty Chinese artists will be opened on September 16 in Pavilion 19 of the Zagreb Fair, after which it will move to the Chinese Pavilion for its official opening on the Republic of China Day (September 30). The exhibition will be staged at the fair because China is Croatia's partner country at this year's Zagreb Autumn Fair. The exhibition will include works by classic painters and sculptors, installations, and video and Internet art. The exhibition, organised by the Museum of Modern Art, has been initiated by Ante Soric, the author of exhibitions in the 1980's such as "Ancient Chinese Art" and "The Silk Road". (hina) sp rml sb