The Face of Our Time: Russian Avant-garde Art from the Bekkerman Collection features stunning works from the first half of the 20th century by leading artists (including David Burliuk, Alexandra Exter, Natalia Goncharova, and Boris Grigoriev) from the private collection of Maya and Anatoly Bekkerman. 

As South Florida’s first art museum and—to this day—the only comprehensive institution of its kind in Miami-Dade County, the Lowe Art Museum is delighted to have the opportunity share highlights from the Bekkermans’ compelling collection of avant-garde Russian art with our many audiences. The works included in this world-class exhibition are both visually compelling and intellectually stimulating. They also invite us into a remarkably fertile era in Russia’s cultural history while reminding us of the breadth and importance of its diaspora. In addition, The Face of Our Time (a reference to the “future now” manifesto penned by David Burliuk, Alexander Kruchenykh, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Victor Khlebnikov in their 1912 Slap in the Face of Public Taste) represents an important opportunity to recall that art is a universal language. As such, it rises above the complexities of present-day politics and allows us to focus on that which binds us together as citizens of the world, including humanity’s shared instincts to find a common expressive language based on expression, emotion, intellect, commemoration, and creativity.