KARAKALPAKSTAN MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

The museum has a unique collection of Soviet avant-garde and post-avant-Garde paintings compiled by Igor Savitsky. Despite the risk of being denounced as anti-communist and being deported to Siberia, he succeeded in saving more than 90 000 works of artists repressed during the Stalinist period, works he entreposa in the archives of the, museum. , was far from Moscow and his totalitarian power, and paintings were forgotten from the world, such as a buried treasure in the desert sands. They reappeared only with perestroika and, in 1988, a first exhibition was presented at the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. Here we can see works by Robert Falk, Evguenni Lysenko, Liubov Popova, David Chterenberg, Alexandre Volkov, Alexandre Nikolaev, said Ousto-Moumin, Vassili Rojdestvenski or the works of Sokolov during his years of the gulag… as well as a collection of copies that belonged to Fernand Léger and include works like the fountain of the innocent. It is a treasure that alone justifies travel to. The new building, very well placed, is the fruit of the hard work of Marinika Babanazarova, and has taken almost 20 years to come. New wings should open, but within an impossible time to define at the moment. Despite the wealth of the collection exhibited, be aware that only 3% of the total works combined by Igor Savitsky have joined the museum. The rest is based on the premises of the old museum, which you can visit by appointment with the sum of $ 40, not too much in view of the cultural treasures it contains. Finally the museum has a floor dedicated to karakalpak crafts. Again, it is a unique collection of jewellery, fabrics, clothing: 8 000 pieces in total to present this unknown people, including Uzbekistan. In short, a model museum, which is to be hoped to allow a certain increase in tourism in an isolated region and outside the usual circuits.