An exhibition dedicated to Marc Chagall has opened at the Moscow Jewish Museum

MOSCOW, May 28. Opened at the Moscow Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center exhibition «Waiting for a Miracle» dedicated to Marc Chagall. The exhibition is based on the artist’s book “My Life”.
The exhibition recreates the most important fragments of Chagall's early biography, from his parents' home in Vitebsk to his Parisian workshop. Seven sections of the exhibition introduce viewers to the artist’s heroes and favorite subjects.
“This exhibition fits organically into one of the areas of exhibition activity of the Jewish Museum, which regularly conducts projects related to avant-garde art. Among its brightest representatives is Marc Chagall,” noted the executive director of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center Kristina Krasnyanskaya.

In his work, she continues, Chagall drew inspiration from Jewish culture, turning to images of folk art, proverbs and sayings, as well as memories of childhood.

The first rooms are dedicated to the Vitebsk house of Marc Chagall, his parents and the city itself. The exhibition leads from the room with the child's cradle through the fish shop where the artist's father worked, and then onto the streets of Vitebsk.
According to the general director of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Rabbi Alexander Boroda, images of a Jewish shtetl in the suburbs of Vitebsk occupy a special place in Chagall’s work: he was born and raised here.
«But in his paintings this small settlement turned into a whole Universe, complete fairy-tale, naive and childish ideas, whimsical heroes. And neither the years of the artist’s life in various cities and countries, nor new trends in art could change this special view of the world,” said Alexander Boroda.
The next section of the exhibition is dedicated to the artist’s first trip to Paris. In addition to the workshop associated with the famous Montparnasse «Beehive», there is a traveling circus here, which attracted more than one generation of Parisian modernists. The exhibition is complemented by paintings and graphic works by Marc Chagall, as well as works by Nathan Altman and Gregory Inger.