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World Jewish News
"Space of Soutine" Part of New Belarus Tourist Route
13.06.2009
The exposition "Space of Soutine," devoted to the famous Jewish artist Chaim Soutine, became the main part of a new tourist route to Belarus.
The exhibition, dedicated to one of the most renowned representatives of the Paris School of Fine Arts Chaim Soutine, was created as a result of a joint project of the National Commission for UNESCO and National Arts Museum of Belarus.
Its opening was held on February 12, 2008, in the building of the children's creativity home in the artist's Motherland - the village of Smilavichy, Chervensky district, Minsk region.
Smilavichy is known to historians as a Jewish center, although now there are practically no Jews in the village, as in October 1941, they were destroyed by the fascists.
"And so the exhibition aims to introduce the visitors not only to the work of the painter Chaim Soutine, who was born and raised in Smilavichy, but also to the life of Jews in the late 19th - early 20th century," the Director of the Museum of Jewish History and Culture of Jews in Belarus Inna Gerasimova told the Jewish News Agency.
The presentation of the tourist route "Smilavichy mosaic," which was prepared by the travel agency "L-tour," was held on June 4.
During the event, the exposition "The space of Soutine" received the gifts. For example, a portrait of Ch. Soutine and 2 copies of his pictures were given by the National Arts Museum.
A catalog of paintings of the artist Boris Zaborov was presented by Vladimir Schastny, President of the National Commission of the Republic of Belarus for UNESCO.
One of the guests, May Danzig, presented the exhibition with two drawings, which had been made by the father of M. Danzig during his joint training with Soutine at Kruger's art school.
The catalogue of paintings by Ch. Soutine, which was presented in 2007 in Paris, was kindly provided by the French Embassy in the Republic of Belarus. The Jewish community of Belarus presented the exposition with a Torah fragment previously found in the attic of one of the houses in Smilavichy, which had been lying there for approximately 65 years.
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