On April 16-17, 2024, a series of exhibitions entitled “Uzbekistan: Avant-Garde in the Desert” will be held in Florence, Italy.

For the first time, the exhibition showcases the best paintings and graphic works stored in the collections of the country’s leading state museums: the capital’s Museum of Art and the Nukus Museum named after I.V. Savitsky.

The Florence section of the exhibition project “Uzbekistan: Avant-Garde in the Desert” is called “Light and Color”. It focuses on the image of Central Asia in the works of Russian Orientalists who worked in Turkestan before 1917 and representatives of the national school of painting in the first half of the 20th century.

The Florentine section of the “Light and Color” project at the Pitti Palace will be open to the public from April 16 to June 30.

Another exhibition from the series “Uzbekistan: Avant-Garde in the Desert” entitled “Form and Symbol” will be presented to the general public from April 17 to September 29 in the exhibition space of the Ca' Foscari University.

Nazokat Usmanova, UzA