The Vitebsk Art School, founded by Chagall, becomes a branch of the Museum of Modern Art

November 22, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. The countdown to the new history of the former People's Art School, founded in Vitebsk by Marc Chagall, will begin at midnight from November 23 to 24. The art event "00.01" will mark the return of the former school building to the cultural life of Vitebsk, the director of the "Vitebsk Center for Modern Art" museum, Valentina Kirillova, told a BELTA correspondent. The building of the former People's Art School has been transferred to the museum, and a branch will be created there with an exhibition dedicated to the school and its famous founders and teachers - Marc Chagall, Kazimir Malevich, El Lissitzky, Vera Ermolaeva, and the creative association "Unovis" (Affirmers of New Art), which was born within the walls of this unusual educational institution in the early 20th century. Historians know the exact date of the creation of this association of innovators - February 14, 1920. Unovis, headed by Kazimir Malevich, included Lissitzky, Chashnik, Ermolaeva, Magaril, Suetin, Khidekel - artists whose work changed the visual perception of the environment and is recognized worldwide. Unovis branches were established in Moscow, Perm, Saratov, and Smolensk. From 1920 to 1924, the Vitebsk committee of Unovis was the central association of creative forces. The unique pedagogical system of art education developed by the artists of Unovis is still used today. Future artists are trained according to it in France, Germany, Poland, and Hungary. The upcoming art event, according to Valentina Kirillova, will symbolize the transition from a time of oblivion to an era of creation. The program includes a performance and a screening of films about the work of avant-garde artists. The culmination of the entire event will be a bright light that will illuminate the windows of the former school exactly at midnight. The event will be preceded by scientific readings "Vitebsk. Unovis. Modernity" and the opening of the contemporary art exhibition "Art Chair". -0-