BEINGS AND BEING: Works by Felix Lembersky April 24-May 17, 2013

*BEINGS AND BEING: Works by Felix Lembersky*

*Pushkin House  *
5a Bloomsbury Square
London, WC1A 2TA

*April 24-May 17, 2013*


*Pushkin House* *is pleased to present the work by artist Felix Lembersky*
(b. Lublin, Poland, 1913; d. Leningrad, 1970), his *first exhibition in
Great Britain.* Rooted in Soviet Avant-Garde and academically trained in
Leningrad, Lembersky melded realist and modernist forms, realigning them to
create emotionally charged and thought-provoking imagery, expressed through
a masterful technique and exquisitely complex color. His work offers a
poignant view of life and the role of an artist as the voice of the people.
A contemporary and friend of Dmitri Shostakovich and Vasily Grossman,
Lembersky was part of the subversive high culture that created a viable
alternative to state-mandated art.

*Poster and Guide attached*


The exhibition is a collaboration between Pushkin House (London) and the
Uniterra Foundation (Cambridge, Massachusetts). It is curated by Robert
Chandler, Yelena Lembersky, and Elena Zaytseva, with Joseph Troncale and
Masha Karp.

Opening reception *Wednesday 24th April 2013, 6.00 – 9.00 pm*
at 7.30: Introduction by Yelena Lembersky and reading by Robert
Chandler<http://www.pushkinhouse.org/single-event/events/being-and-beings-works-by-felix-lembersky>

*Lecture Tuesday 30th April 2013, 7.30 pm*
Pushkin Club programme: Robert Chandler on Vasily
Grossman's<http://www.pushkinhouse.org/single-event/events/robert-chandler-on-vasily-grossmans-an-armenian-sketchbook>
AN ARMENIAN SKETCHBOOK<http://www.pushkinhouse.org/single-event/events/robert-chandler-on-vasily-grossmans-an-armenian-sketchbook>
 (NYRB Classics & the MacLehose Press)

*Lecture Tuesday 14th May, 2013, 7.30 – 9.00 pm*
Joseph Troncale, Professor of Russian Literature and Visual Studies
University of Richmond, “Art That Stops the Mind and Moves the Heart”

http://www.pushkinhouse.org/single-exhibition/items/being-and-beings-works-by-felix-lembersky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9ZHCqKpSHk
http://lembersky.org/en/news


Also ongoing

*FELIX LEMBERSKY: Soviet Forms, Jewish Context*

Jewish Museum Milwaukee, May 17 - July 14, 2013
http://www.jewishmuseummilwaukee.org/index.php
Curated by Joel Berkowitz (Stahl Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
and Molly Dubin (JMM)