Welcome to Belle Epoque!

This exhibition is going to take you to the past, to the times of aristocracy, superb luxury  trains like Orient Express, first movies, first flights of planes, first autos, first radio waves. This is an epoch of 1895-1914, boom of culture, industry, science, the age ended by the WWI.

The French call it La Belle Epoque, The Superb Epoch, in Russia this time period got the  name of The Silver Age. It is time of modernizm, maybe the last architecture style to resemble us how beautiful our ancestors used to build instead of today’s post-modernizm (I call it “anti-modernizm”, consisting of glass+concrete boxex and bedroom blocks in the suburbs of large cities).

It was the epoch of beautiful clothes and the peak of luxury living for few, writes the site Fashion Era. It was the time of action of Hercule Poirot, main Agatha Christie’s character, and the late Sherlock Holmes.

In the exhibition called “Les reves de La belle epoque” (The dreams of the gorgeous epoch) take part both French and Russian artists. The event features a few artistic styles, which can be defined as “a-la carte”: video-art, photography, graphic works, sculpture, painting, monotypy, porcelain, and even art-textile.

The venue is “The center of books and graphic”, Liteyny prospect, 55.

January 19 — February 2, 2010; Open 10.00-22.00

The photo in the post: a picture of  Mathe Sebastian, France.

Photo credit: www.naiv-art.ru